For anyone who develops software for Windows PCs--and that includes nearly everyone who manages business applications--next week will be an important one. Microsoft will take the wraps off the first publicly available code for its next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. It's due in 2006, if all goes according to plan. Billed as the biggest release of Microsoft's flagship product since Windows 95 nearly a decade ago, Longhorn will include technology for building a new generation of "smart client" software that combines the look and feel of PC apps like Word or Excel with immediate access to information off the Web.
"Instead of this disconnected state between your applications, you're counting on connectivity," says Don Cosseboom, director of R&D at Molecular Inc., a developer of business software. Though Longhorn apps won't debut for at least another three years, Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles next week will disclose the first technical information developers need to know about writing to a new set of technologies that could radically change how Windows PCs find, organize, present, and share information across networks.
News source: InformationWeek
"Instead of this disconnected state between your applications, you're counting on connectivity," says Don Cosseboom, director of R&D at Molecular Inc., a developer of business software. Though Longhorn apps won't debut for at least another three years, Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles next week will disclose the first technical information developers need to know about writing to a new set of technologies that could radically change how Windows PCs find, organize, present, and share information across networks.
News source: InformationWeek
Also, please do not harass the ops in the #Steam channel as thei cannot make this process of reverting go any faster.
isnt that what they said about XP?
No XP was only a minor upgrade to 2000 (NT5 to NT5.1) 2000 was a massive upgrade to NT4 but Longorn will eclipse that.
What made XP important was that it gave home users an NT based OS to use.
Windows is 24/7 exposed to a zillion hackers, crackers and trial and error searches for holes and all that sort of stuff.
So get a life and learn a little bit more about computers then talk. Safe yourself looking so ridiculous.
please dont for 1 sec believe becuase you are on microsoft's side and other are pointing out where major problems lays in windows, that you know more about computers than them.
With you statement you showed who was making themself looking so ridiculous.
As for the article, I feel uncomfortable with the idea of sharing all my data on the NET.. If M$ does this and also will implement their DRM bull**** I just might go over to Linux or use XP for quite some time in the future.
If you don't want to be educated on DRM or NGSCB "opt-in" technologies, then you can take my word for it: It will be in all OSs eventually. While any OS is a choice you make, it would behoove people to understand the process and method rather than simply bad-talk the intent.
And if you don't care to learn at all, here's the readers digest version: DRM allows vendors to sell data. NGSCB allows the OS to verify that data as unmodified and owned by you (amongst other things, obviously). If you don't want them on your system, that's perfectly fine, and the OS will still work. However you miss the opportunity to get any vendor supplied products or applications that require those.
Do you honestly think that Linux won't have this? Of course it will. But it's opt-in no matter what platform. Statements like "If Microsoft implements DRM I won't buy it" are basically ignorant of the overall deliverables the product makes available to you.
If you want to think about it another way: It's not removing anything, it's adding and securing. And anything I said here is basically subjective until the first OS to provide this comes out the door with a product...
I used 2000 for a long time and it's definately a great OS, but in my experience XP has been just a bit faster and more stable.
This is the concept of, "If I don't want it or need it, it must be totally useless. It is therefore 'bloat' and should be removed immediately."
Doesn't sound bad, except that now you'll have to worry of vunerabilities with word or excel. And as some of you have pointed out that Windows is the most hacked/ probed OS out there... I think that MS will really have to do alot more to make the next OS and it's web integrations more secure. But I'll wait and see on the outcome.
(1) It is easier to attack than to defend. If Longhorn is unwrapped, there will be more chances for hackers to commit what they feel comfortable.
(2) So we encounter a paradox -- disclosing codes or withholding codes, both of them cannot escape from being condemned.
(3) Still, OS is striding to advance ...
I have no idea if Longhorn will be good or a complete nightmare filled with DRM badness.
Is this the part where people are supposed to give a crap?
aye... plenty of mac news & help available here as well
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