Your right, as a matter of fact ms was partnering with a not so widely known company called keyhole, in fact they worked together to produce that demo. Less that a year after that demo Keyhole was purchased by google.
There is no option to "tell Microsoft Search to update every ten minutes". The option is to prioritize indexing, this means that indexing takes places as soon as a new file appears or is modified. By default indexing only the computer is not busy or being used.
If you want near-instant indexing then you would turn the prioritize option on.
Obviously they are providing difference services however there is plenty of food for thought. It just goes to show that things are never as simple as just looking at surface issues.
Good point, it would be great to have linux and oss exposure in education, but being extreme isn't, afterall they could also save 100% by not buying any computers or IT staffs at all!!
But seriously, in my experience schools and colleges use a lot of proprietory (non-oss) software which is non-microsoft areas which OSS software doesn't have equivalents.
No reason. However going by historical benchmark precedents, and with the assumption that open-source applications improve at a faster rate than their proprietry competition, I find the claim to be rather improbable.
I'd be very interested in this precedent refered to? Do you have links?
Sique, your obviously a smart one, you noticed that Mozilla was an application, indeed it runs in so-called 'user space', and is not considered part of the OS despite being distributed and installed with many modern distributions. And what is ActiveX? It's describes an plugin-extension architecture for an application. What I mean to says there is a different judgement of; for a product with 100s of millions of users.
GPU acceleration is DirectX. Longhorn UI will be driven by Direct version 10 (WGF).
You can search any document type with the right ifilter, anyone can create an ifilter for any data type. Longhorn search is actually just a fancy interface to this old (NT) indexer.
Journalling (kernel level) is different from Transctional NTFS: an Atomic set of Application file operations.
Note: NTFS has journalling already, 9 years before apple and 6 years before linux FYI.
It was the exposure of the NT security model to the masses and 600 million end users which highlighted its blind spots and weaknesses. Given the number of vulnerability reported in Linux/various Unix'es on daily basis, I doubt its so-called 'model' would do much better.
Actually BMW's are a very common sight, but more importantly BMW owners are not known for having good taste, style or road manners, or manners... they are known for thinking they do however, which perhaps lends me to believe that you are fundamentally correct about what you have written, but perhaps not in the way that you believe;)
I'm not sure how you got from a Newton to a tablet PC with a straight face... but to be honest all of the new features touted in OSX tiger seem to mere improvements (indexed search=locate,graphic hardware accelleration=directx/gdi+) to what has already existed, or copied an pasted from elsewhere (konflabulator).
Actually it did come with a new firewall with SP2, which operates quite differently from the one supplied in the original version. Example: theres was no way to have per-application firewall configurations in the pre-sp2 firewall.
If you actually read what you copied and pasted (on mass) you might find actually to contrary; there was nothing for you to get worked up about.
There was no about-face; no contractictions just a stating of what he has seen/used.
I understand what your saying, but you should also remember that FC3 is only a few months. If things carry on in this fashion then after 1 year you might have 1GB of patches to apply to FC3!:) but then again i suppose it will be called FC4.
Out of interest, is it possible to bundle all those 450Mb FC3 patches into 1 install which can be applied to multiple machines SP style.
Also theres happends to be a search engine ( your database-indexed filesystem ) called called "Index Server" which was released in 1996 by Microsoft for Windows NT 4, and bundled in the NT 4 Option pack.
Index Server was susequently built into Window 2000 (Release 1999) and Windows XP (Release 2001) and Windows Server 2003.
In 2004 the MSN took the Index Server Codebase and developed this.
As you can see windows already had what you thought it didn't and it had it a long time ago, you can also see that you have confused WinFS(Storage/Structure/Schema) with Search.
Yes you are correct the Smartphone OS is a subset of Windows Mobile, which is itself derrived from the Windows CE operating system designed for Handheld devices and industrial control devices.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes it will, its implied by text under the headline!! More info from the developers blog
MSN have more than a screenshot, they have video. And unlike the google keyhole (google earth), msn virtual earth runs on Linux and OSX!
Virtual Earth: MSN's answer to Google Maps
Microsoft have written one OS in .NET/c#
.net
However no one _ever_ said the the longhorn kernel would be re-written in
Your right, as a matter of fact ms was partnering with a not so widely known company called keyhole, in fact they worked together to produce that demo. Less that a year after that demo Keyhole was purchased by google.
You will find the demo here: Longhorn Concept Videos
There is no option to "tell Microsoft Search to update every ten minutes". The option is to prioritize indexing, this means that indexing takes places as soon as a new file appears or is modified. By default indexing only the computer is not busy or being used.
If you want near-instant indexing then you would turn the prioritize option on.
This is very intersting, the google (no.1 search engine) cluster costsists of about 250,000 cheap (hardware) linux nodes while MSN messenger service handles 70 million concurrent sessions a day on just 25 server (probably expensive!) machines.
Obviously they are providing difference services however there is plenty of food for thought. It just goes to show that things are never as simple as just looking at surface issues.
Good point, it would be great to have linux and oss exposure in education, but being extreme isn't, afterall they could also save 100% by not buying any computers or IT staffs at all!!
But seriously, in my experience schools and colleges use a lot of proprietory (non-oss) software which is non-microsoft areas which OSS software doesn't have equivalents.
Why couldn't IIS be faster than Apache?
No reason. However going by historical benchmark precedents, and with the assumption that open-source applications improve at a faster rate than their proprietry competition, I find the claim to be rather improbable.
I'd be very interested in this precedent refered to? Do you have links?
FYI. You might also notice that the test was against a Windows 2003 RC2 (Release Candidate 2) in April 2003.
Sique, your obviously a smart one, you noticed that Mozilla was an application, indeed it runs in so-called 'user space', and is not considered part of the OS despite being distributed and installed with many modern distributions. And what is ActiveX? It's describes an plugin-extension architecture for an application. What I mean to says there is a different judgement of; for a product with 100s of millions of users.
And does Bluetooth really need to execute entirely in Kernel-mode? What about moving drivers out of the kernel.
GPU acceleration is DirectX. Longhorn UI will be driven by Direct version 10 (WGF).
You can search any document type with the right ifilter, anyone can create an ifilter for any data type. Longhorn search is actually just a fancy interface to this old (NT) indexer.
Journalling (kernel level) is different from Transctional NTFS: an Atomic set of Application file operations.
Note: NTFS has journalling already, 9 years before apple and 6 years before linux FYI.
It was the exposure of the NT security model to the masses and 600 million end users which highlighted its blind spots and weaknesses. Given the number of vulnerability reported in Linux/various Unix'es on daily basis, I doubt its so-called 'model' would do much better.
Mozilla Suite and Firefox "favicons" LINK Code Execution Exploit
Linux kernel 2.4/2.6 Bluetooth Socket Creation Local Root Exploit
Actually BMW's are a very common sight, but more importantly BMW owners are not known for having good taste, style or road manners, or manners... they are known for thinking they do however, which perhaps lends me to believe that you are fundamentally correct about what you have written, but perhaps not in the way that you believe ;)
I'm not sure how you got from a Newton to a tablet PC with a straight face ... but to be honest all of the new features touted in OSX tiger seem to mere improvements (indexed search=locate,graphic hardware accelleration=directx/gdi+) to what has already existed, or copied an pasted from elsewhere (konflabulator).
Are there any actual new ideas in OSX?
Transactional NTFS
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Actually NTFS has supported files upto 16TB in size since 1992.
type Convert c: /FS:ntfs on the command line if u are using a non 9x OS
I think they meant virtual memory vs memory, the distinction is important, but i'm not going to explain why ;)
Comparison of 32-bit and 64-bit memory architecture for 64-bit editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is an interesting link however
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I know they had 32 bit build for alpha, ppc, MIPS
The port (3.51 and NT4) to Alpha was definitly 64-Bit...
Windows NT
idiot? never mind...
Actually it did come with a new firewall with SP2, which operates quite differently from the one supplied in the original version. Example: theres was no way to have per-application firewall configurations in the pre-sp2 firewall.
If you actually read what you copied and pasted (on mass) you might find actually to contrary; there was nothing for you to get worked up about. There was no about-face; no contractictions just a stating of what he has seen/used.
I understand what your saying, but you should also remember that FC3 is only a few months. If things carry on in this fashion then after 1 year you might have 1GB of patches to apply to FC3! :) but then again i suppose it will be called FC4.
Out of interest, is it possible to bundle all those 450Mb FC3 patches into 1 install which can be applied to multiple machines SP style.
Well it did come with a firewall. As a fact the same firewall is supplied with every version of 2003 and XP:
Windows Basic Firewall
But Windows -WMP will not be cheaper for OEM's or Retailers. WMP is a 0$ priced product.
FYI
WinFS is about data storage not indexing.
Also theres happends to be a search engine ( your database-indexed filesystem ) called called "Index Server" which was released in 1996 by Microsoft for Windows NT 4, and bundled in the NT 4 Option pack.
Index Server was susequently built into Window 2000 (Release 1999) and Windows XP (Release 2001) and Windows Server 2003.
In 2004 the MSN took the Index Server Codebase and developed this.
As you can see windows already had what you thought it didn't and it had it a long time ago, you can also see that you have confused WinFS(Storage/Structure/Schema) with Search.
Yes you are correct the Smartphone OS is a subset of Windows Mobile, which is itself derrived from the Windows CE operating system designed for Handheld devices and industrial control devices.
Windows CE is not descended from Windows XP!
Windows Smartphone OS
Windows Mobile/CE
This phone will be based on Windows Mobile Magneto the next generation of Windows CE.