~terry
Fri, Jun 28, 2002 (07:49)
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It's what Bill Gates spends over half his time on.
It's in this months fortune (july 8 "gates@work")
It's called Longhorn. And it has nothing to do with Cedric Bensen.
It's due out in 2005 and it's anything but incremental.
It's the revolutionary next stage of software.
It boils down to categories like People, Annotation, Real Time
Coommunications, Storage, Autehntication and Security and New Look.
Gates: The number one question with Longhorn is "Where's my stuff?"
Everything's a document with a history and a personality. "Bestcom" is the
part of it that is your personal digital assistant. "Broadbench" is your
desk and it's your computer. Your whole desk is a computer, ok?
So, to Bill, it's get out .net services first.
Then get ready for Longhorn.
And it has nothing to do with Windows. It's new from the ground up.
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~terry
Fri, Jun 28, 2002 (07:51)
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And it has nothing to do with Windows. It's new from the ground up.
XP successor Longhorn goes SQL, P2P - Microsoft leaks
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 28/01/2002 at 21:58 GMT
Sources close to Microsoft confirm that The Beast is set to include a
new relational file store at the core of its next version of Windows.
Some roadmap slippage has apparently occurred, too, as the database
core will be introduced into Longhorn, and Blackcomb has been pushed
further back. That leaves a gap for a point revision of XP next year,
although there's no sign of this on the roadmap just yet. Despite the
annual revisions being named as users' number one bugbear, Microsoft
hasn't let a year go by without releasing a new version of Windows
since 1997, when it was fighting the browser wars.
- The Register
and from the same register article:
The final feature set for Longhorn - the codename for the successor
to Windows XP - hasn't been nailed down yet, and the database core had
been rumored for inclusion in Blackcomb, the next Windows after
Longhorn.