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Thursday, April 21, 2005

 

News from PC Magazine: Microsoft Reveals Longhorn Details

News from PC Magazine: Microsoft Reveals Longhorn Details: "Microsoft Reveals Longhorn Details
04.15.05 Total posts: 10

By Michael J. Miller
Microsoft is slowly but surely lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding its next version of the widely used Windows operating oystem, code-named Longhorn. "

Few highlights worth knowing are:
1. The system is moving to Least-Privileged User Access as a privilege default, so that end users can't accidentally install malicious files
2. Imagine a laptop with an LCD on the outside cover, so you can still see your next appointment even when the laptop is closed
3. Longhorn, Allchin told me, will be a platform for the next ten years, with the new Avalon graphics system, the Indigo Web services system, and, eventually, the delayed WinFS file system

Yet an another learning curve for users in 2006 and this is there to stay for another 5-10 yrs ...



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