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Longhorn Preview
prostoalex writes "News.com has up a preview of Microsoft's current build of Longhorn operating system, from Jim Allchin, Microsoft group vice president. The timing is not coincidental with Apple's Tiger release, as Allchin pointed out some advantages that Microsoft had over Apple's OS: 'High on the list of features are security enhancements, improved desktop searching and organizing, and better methods for laptops to roam from one network to another.'" Update: 04/15 21:24 GMT by Z : Thomashawk wrote in to provide links to less formal looks at the Allchin preview, one at his site, and one at Evan William's site.
It's kinda too bad actually. I go to a lot of scientific talks and I always enjoy watching Windows users tapping all sorts of keys, restarting, etc. just to get their presentation to show up on the projector screen.
too bad the reason many users' systems are slow isn't because of Microsoft. It's because of spyware. I have XP running on all of my computers and 2003 standard edition on my server. The 2003 machine has been running smooth for over a year now, I haven't even had to reboot it once. I have also used my XP machine (which is a laptop) for many presentations, and I have never had a problem.
rebooting and BSODs due to Microsoft issues are a thing of the past.
linux may not require reboots due to spyware, but that's only because it's not popular enough for the spyware companies to write software for it.