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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.
"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."
:-)
And you'll see all this and more when it's released in 2007.
Honest.
'High on the list of features are security enhancements.
'Enhancements'? How can you 'enhance' no security to start with? 0 +0 = 0.
Wow! I sure need that, since my OSX installs are all so virus-prone!
Security enchancements can only mean one thing:
Preinstalled spyware, so you don't have to risk going out onto the internet to find your own.
liqbase
It's the same story Microsoft has told for years.. "Yeah, those other guys might have some cool shit, but the stuff we're working on is WAY better. Don't buy their stuff, wait for our new thing to come out. It'll be available Real Soon Now."
Apple will be releasing Mac OS X Ocelot by the time Longhorn hits the market.
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
So as a fanboy with nothing to do on a friday afternoon with no class I must take issue with the whole easier to roam from network to network thing... As a student at a private California university (not ucsc as per my name), we have different wifi networks all over the place. I'm using a PBg4 with airport express and mac os 10.3.8. Whenever and wherever I open up my laptop, it automatically connects me to the best (or predetermined) network available, and it usually takes 5 seconds. The only time i've had to open up my Network connection system prefence is when i failed to realize that my airport express base was unplugged!
"designed to take advantage of all this muscle"
Y'know, like "to fuck with", "to shag" etc?
I never can tell with MS, after all they have redefined the meaning of so many words and terms; innovation, secure, reliable, scalable etc etc.
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By the time Longhorn ships, according to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, PCs will have 4GHz to 6GHz processors, more than 2GB of memory, at least a terabyte of storage, and graphics accelerators three times more powerful than those offered by ATI and Nvidia today. He says that Longhorn is designed to take advantage of all this muscle, and nowhere is that more evident than in the rich, three-dimensional interface known as Aero.
We'll have much better computers than that by time Longhorn finally ships.Last year at WWDC Apple had huge posters that said things like "Mac OS X, introducing longhorn" and "Redmond start your photocopiers".
I thought it was cute, now I know it was prophetic.
evil is as evil does
From the makers of "Free ,as in costs money" we have "advatage, as in Same thing later". ..
I have to ask which dictionary they are using
Seriously i know marketing people are usualy full of crap , but normaly they try to avoid silly statments that are near out and out lies
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
With open...
never mind.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
Made me laugh: "...document icons are no longer a hint of the type of file, but rather a small picture of the file itself." Now there's a security enhancement.
I think that files with viruses in them show a little icon of you reintsalling the OS, as a portent of the future you might have by opening it. So I guess that's security related. By default it ships with an icon of Balmer doing the installation unless you have a USB camera hooked up, then it automatically detects an install and takes a snap while you're in hour two for best effect!
Who says Microsoft cant innovate.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Pff, using Windows(*) I can automatically login wirelessly without saving settings.
(*) I do not use Windows but many entry points do and accept my request without authorization :-)
Duh, do you want a graphics adapter just sitting there, or do you want some extra eyecandy for free?
Some of us are heterosexual and do not like all that fruity eyecandy that you precious mac zealots seem to enjoy. So yes, unless I am playing a video game, I do want that graphics adapter just sitting there.
Allchin said that Longhorn also goes further than Tiger when it comes to what one can do with search results, saying it offers new ways to organize and view the information.
"We got both kinds of search views. We sort by date OR time!"
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Sounds to me like Longhorn will be a big contributor to the need to upgrade the electrical grid.
Why do you think it has taken Microsoft so long to come out with Longhorn. Microsoft had to wait for Apple and the Free Software community to come up with enough ideas worth stealing to make Longhorn worth its customers time.
Apple vs MS:
Apple - Apple is a hardware company so they want to sell boxes, not software, yet each release of OS X is faster than the previous one. Tiger is expected to continue this trend.
Microsoft is a software company so they want to sell software, not boxes, yet each release of Windows is far slower than the last one.
There's a reason why I can still use a 6 year old mac with the current OS.
I use Macs to up my productivity, so up yours Microsoft!
Lemme get this straight.
Microsoft: "We don't have Longhorn ready yet, but Tiger, that OS from that other company, is shipping in 14 days if you want a 99% approximation of our OS that will ship in two years."
Apple: "Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger': Even Microsoft Says It's Good."
Isn't Rule Number One of advertising never to mention the "leading brand" by name? Sheesh, you'd think M$ would have learned by now.
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From TFA:
For example, a PC with Longhorn might show all the music files together, whether they are on the local PC or another machine on the network.
I'm surprised, this already works on my WinXP machine. The application is named iTunes.
Oh wait...
I enjoy the concept of steaming video
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Don't we all, mate, don't we all
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
No Kool-Aid but a nice medium bodied chardonnay before dinner accompanied by a nice fruity pinot with the chicken.
"So what does Longhorn's search do that Spotlight doesn't?"
Ship more than a year from now. : )
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Sounds nasty. Does it come with a box of Kleenex?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Apple's OSX releases are named after sleek, powerfull, and exotic jungle cats. Microsoft's new OS is name after, well....a cow. Hmmm. I think that says a lot.
I was yelling "this is a load of SHIT!" when I threw the magazine.
Dude, you should invest in some anger management classes. Or maybe spend a relaxing weekend debugging your registry and flushing your system of spyware.
-- I'm old enough to have lived through six different meanings of the word "hacker."
Hey! Active Desktop was great. Before that came along I actually had to start an application to crash my PC.
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Nobody expects...The Microsoft Marketers!
... and backwards incompatibility. Our *three* chief weapons are ignorance, FUDs and backwards incomparability and an almost fanatical devotion to the Market....
our chief weapon is ignorance . . . ignorance and FUDs, FUDs and ignorance.... Our two, two chief weapons are ignorance and FUDs
> And God save us from animated icons.
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Animated icons? How about animated filenames? Why should filenames be static? It's bad enough filenames can only have certain characters, that they cannot, for instance, contain paragraph breaks. What if I want a three-paragraph-long filename? And why should they be text-only? What is this, 1980? In the modern era, our filenames should be fully liberated to include markup, images, animation, scripts,
(No, I'm not serious. I don't even like filenames with spaces in them.)
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Makes sense, given the biggest security hole in the entire system is the person using it.