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More Insight On Longhorn's Avalon And Aero Design
Lispy writes "While monitoring the Xorg mailinglist I came across this set of WinHEC PPT-presentations (work fine in OOorg) that cover some interesting details on the underlying architecture of Aero, Aero Glass and future font rendering in Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn OS. What does the Slashdot crowd think about the overall design and its downsides, such as power consumption on notebooks?" (KPresenter works fine, too, btw.)
The date is pretty much up for grabs. Everyone has their own opinion - everyone is speculating. Some say as soon as next year, others say as late as 2007.
Last I heard, it's schedule for the day after Duke Nukem: Forever.
Isn't replacing the operating system to fix the left side of certain characters in certain fonts using a rather large hammer to solve the problem? :)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Peeeerrrrty
Look at those two screen shots. If Longhorn wan't an OS I would bang her 4 times a day.
Then again, I would get a virus, like MSclap
=)
call it longshot
While I have to admit it sounds cool, I can't really think of a real need for this.
;-)
And while you are at it, I think I speak for everyone when I say I can't think of a real need for Longhorn either
from the 2nd presentation (in huge capitals, orange text on blue background to make your eyes bleed. So far for userfriendlyness)
"64-bit is the future !!"
Doh. MS is missing the ball by a few 100 miles again : Billy, 64-bit is THE PRESENT. 128bit or nanocomputing is the future.
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
are they creating video game or operating system?