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Looking at Longhorn

Posted by michael on from the proudly-imitating-all-of-Mac-OS's-flaws dept.

ShinyPlasticBag writes "Paul Thurrott has an excellent preview of Longhorn milestone five over at his Supersite for Windows. It looks like this may be Microsoft's equivalent to OS X -- the next version of Windows will have a 3D accelerated desktop and other graphical goodies. In addition to this, it will include a journaling file system, so us mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years."

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  1. Re:Retards by pnatural · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually, no. NTFS has been a journaling file system since the first implementation.

  2. Re:In other words... by Alan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    thinner and sexier. Sadly, they're also gobs too expensive for a mere mortal to afford (at least the ultra sexy powerbooks).

  3. Prior art by Spanishlnquisition · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My ex girlfriend used to call me Long Horn.
    I have prior art.

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  4. Re:In other words... by drollexecutive · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Charging $300-400US for XP could only be B. Gates saying it may be over but I yet to win the fight. So a lot of us would do. I guess I am stunned by how many people characterize the phrase "you're doing it wrong". The Visual Basic Magazine I read, which arrived and I accepted (4) isuues, played out the registers of the pentium IV. Being that there are 256 registers for functions which include math and storage I would have concluded as well that Longhorn would store Context Information there and call it a resident process. Go Bill Go.