Major Features of Longhorn in 2009
http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5212...?tag=nefd.lede
This is just another great chance for Apple to swoop in, pump up advertising , and with Mac OS X double its market share. Everything is in place (brand recognition of making good products such as the iPod and iTunes) , a swoop is all that is needed. Isn't Apple reportedly working on something that would match this?
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Advanced search features that Gates has termed the "Holy Grail" of Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, won't be fully in place until 2009, Bob Muglia, the senior vice president in charge of Windows server development, told CNET News.com.
The technology, called WinFS, is an add-on the Windows file system that Microsoft says will make it easier for users to find data such as documents, e-mail messages and multimedia files--no matter what their format--on local PCs and across the network.
Microsoft does plan to include WinFS in the client version of Longhorn, which is expected to ship by mid-2006. And Muglia said WinFS will be included in the server version of Longhorn, slated to debut in 2007. However, "some of the functionality of WinFS and some of the scenarios may be limited in terms of what it can do. I don't know that we will have all of the scale to the level where we would like to have it, so that you could use it for very high-volume enterprise servers," he said.
Advanced search features that Gates has termed the "Holy Grail" of Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, won't be fully in place until 2009, Bob Muglia, the senior vice president in charge of Windows server development, told CNET News.com.
The technology, called WinFS, is an add-on the Windows file system that Microsoft says will make it easier for users to find data such as documents, e-mail messages and multimedia files--no matter what their format--on local PCs and across the network.
Microsoft does plan to include WinFS in the client version of Longhorn, which is expected to ship by mid-2006. And Muglia said WinFS will be included in the server version of Longhorn, slated to debut in 2007. However, "some of the functionality of WinFS and some of the scenarios may be limited in terms of what it can do. I don't know that we will have all of the scale to the level where we would like to have it, so that you could use it for very high-volume enterprise servers," he said.
This is just another great chance for Apple to swoop in, pump up advertising , and with Mac OS X double its market share. Everything is in place (brand recognition of making good products such as the iPod and iTunes) , a swoop is all that is needed. Isn't Apple reportedly working on something that would match this?
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"Three years is a long time in the development world. I would expect...more clarification on what we're going to get," said Gillen.
Microsoft's release schedule ? and choice of features ? is partially motivated by its Software Assurance licensing program, which includes the option to upgrade to new release as part of an annuity contract, Gillen said. Customers pay an annual fee to the program to get regular updates. "A lot of customers measure the success of (Software Assurance) on whether they get an upgrade or not," he said.
This means that, as always, Microsoft's management isn't going to let developers do their work properly. With such an attitude you can expect any degree of shittiness from their future products.
Managers must understand that they are not gods in whose hands is the power; they are only to serve their company and its employees.
http://www.extremetech.com/slideshow...o=2&i=1,00.asp
See that one and the next few pics...
Anything look familiar to you guys?
For f#@*s sake !
And they've got us on the ropes with those semi-transparent windows AND the integrated pop-up blocker in IE. You'd think Apple would build that in to Safari.
Come on, guys!
And I'm really glad to see Microsoft getting serious about security. Up until now has all been a dry test run and a bit of an inside joke then, right?
Why, oh why is this company the monster it is? Can someone please explain this to me? I'd love to have a time machine, just once. I'd go back and erase Apple from existence...JUST to see how Microsoft would be doing. I honestly believe it would not be the giant it is had Apple never existed and there never was that early connection/relationship.
Does anyone here, be honest now, truly believe Windows would a) even exist and/or b) look the way it's beginning to look, if not for Apple?
This isn't fanboy hysterics either. I'm dead serious.
Had OS X never come along (and Apple just stayed with the OS 9/Platinum look all this time), do you really think anyone at Microsoft would've considered the notion of shadowed and transparent windows? Or if they DID, that it would've gotten past the initial approval stage? Honestly?
I seriously, seriously, seriously doubt it.
"What in the HELL is that crap around those windows, Peterson? This ain't *#%@ing art school, so knock it off! We're designing operating systems here, got it? Jeez...shadows my ass. Hey, look at Apple...do THEY have shadows on their windows? No, they don't! So why should we, numbnuts? Get back to work and don't ever let me catch you monkeying around like that again. If you want to make stuff look cute, go work for Adobe! Remember...we imitate, not innovate! Learn it or hit the bricks!"
Originally posted by pscates
..."What in the HELL is that crap around those windows, Peterson? This ain't *#%@ing art school, so knock it off! We're designing operating systems here, got it? Jeez...shadows my ass. Hey, look at Apple...do THEY have shadows on their windows? No, they don't! So why should we, numbnuts? Get back to work and don't ever let me catch you monkeying around like that again. If you want to make stuff look cute, go work for Adobe! Remember...we imitate, not innovate! Learn it or hit the bricks!"
Wow, Mr. Burns works at MS now? so the whole powerplant thing fell through, poor guy...
Originally posted by pscates
Burns?
When I read that, all I could think of was Mr Burns talking to the professor.
Originally posted by pscates
Come on, guys!
Yeah it sucks and it's really annoying but think of it this way....we've had most of this stuff for how long? When does Longhorn come out? How many more iterations of OS X will we have by then? Yeah...see now doesn't that make you feel better?
I can't wait to see what we have in OS X by 2006. MS can't even keep up! It's great!
I'm going to send those pics to the other guys in my IT department with just this text:
"Coming to Windows in 2006, here today in OS X".