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Windows XP To Get Longhorn Technologies

Posted by michael on from the infinite-beta dept.

SilentChris writes "According to CNet, Microsoft is revising their plan for Longhorn. In addition to scaling back WinFS, they will also have separate releases of Avalon (the new graphical system) and Indigo (a new network architecture) for Windows XP and 2003. If most of the updates will be available for current versions of Windows, what is the incentive to upgrade?"

2 of 451 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Indigo by The+Bungi · · Score: 5, Informative
    Indigo will ship way before Longhorn. Originally it was going to be made available only for XP Pro and 2003, but Microsoft agreed to ship it for Windows 2000 as well. Obviously it won't be integrated into the OS as, say, COM+.

    I loved how the bangboy submitter called it a "new networking architecture". Indigo is a SOA stack that will bring .NET more into J2EE territory. It has less to do with "networking" than building distributed applications.

    I hope this... ah... helps and all that =)

  2. "Scaling back WinFS" by rd_syringe · · Score: 5, Informative

    They're not scaling back WinFS. There's no where in the article it even states this. All it says is that it will be available in beta form upon the client release.

    For some reason, Slashdot has trouble reporting anything accurately on WinfS. Anyone remember the previous case where Microsoft decided not to include some of the more esoteric features (like some networking functions). Slashdot, of course, picked it up and reported it as "WinFS cancelled," and other tech news sites picked it up. For months, people on Slashdot continued to refer to WinFS as cancelled, when they were blissfully ignorant to the fact it wasn't. Sigh. All it takes is a little basic research first.