An early peek at Longhorn

ZDNet News ^ | April 14, 2005 | Ina Fried

[Constantine XIII]

It will use 3-d glasses and the Power Glove!

[goldstategop]

At 512 MB RAM, count on doubling that to at least 1GB RAM worth of memory. The minimum recommended by Microsoft will let you boot up to the desktop but its too low to run memory hungry programs. And if you think today's bloatware consumes lots of memory, just wait til Longhorn debuts. You'll want brand new hardware just to run the new Operating System and it won't be cheap.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Richard Kimball]

[Jimbaugh]

I think that posting that pig is a Microsoft copyright violation. Microsoft has all the rights to the XP pig.

[IamConservative]

If history is any judge, it will be larger, slower to boot up and shut down, and be more things to more people.

Certain to have a new mother load of security flaws which will alloe our PC's to get infected. Isn't Longhorn 64 bit as well?

[Wiz]

Old Nintendo stuff LOL!

[infocats]

Certain to have a new mother load of security flaws which will alloe our PC's to get infected. Isn't Longhorn 64 bit as well?

I don't think the article mentioned whether it was 32 or 64 bits, or even if it was backward compatible. Several posters mentioned that it was both, but the question of backward compatibility was asked but not yet answered.

As to security flaws, well as a general rule, the more complex a system gets, the higher will be the failure rate, even without deliberate intervention from the global anarchistas trying to inflict as much damage as possible...and as often.

The only thing I can suggest is keep your anti-viral signatures, fire walls, and trojan guarders up to date, especially if using a fast connection which is prone to be on-line more often than dial-up.

[LTCJ]

Reading through the list, there are a surprisingly high number of features which are already being done by other OSs. Marketing to the unwashed it would seem.

Once I got down to the "recommended system" list, I really began to wonder who the heck is going to be 'needing' this OS. Half a gig minimum? When it comes to business applications, almost any box coming off the line these days has horsepower to burn - the biggest demand on hardware is getting to be the OS itself. As it stands now the corporation I work for, with over 60,000 employees, buys COTS boxes and retroghosts them with W2000 - despite having the XP sticker on the bottom.

[LTCJ]

Reading through the list, there are a surprisingly high number of features which are already being done by other OSs. Marketing to the unwashed it would seem.

Once I got down to the "recommended system" list, I really began to wonder who the heck is going to be 'needing' this OS. Half a gig minimum? When it comes to business applications, almost any box coming off the line these days has horsepower to burn - the biggest demand on hardware is getting to be the OS itself. As it stands now the corporation I work for, with over 60,000 employees, buys COTS boxes and retroghosts them with W2000 - despite having the XP sticker on the bottom.

[LibFreeOrDie]

"Whenever any Microsoft product takes it upon itself to do what it thinks I want to do, it's always wrong."

Achtung! You vill use Vord only in the vay ve tell you. It's our vay or the highvay!

[JerseyHighlander]

Google SphereXP

www.hamar.sk/sphere/

Works in WinXP.
It's a resource hog, but a very interesting gui concept that has come to fruition. If you tinker with it, customize the mouse motions to move faster.