Tag archive: Longhorn

“There are plenty of features worth tracking, but taken as a whole they are not likely to boost the PC industry far beyond the 8 percent compound growth and 7 percent decline in average prices expected over the next four years. As usual, Microsoft has no shortage of small, innovative design teams run by aggressive thirtysomethings, all trying to pack cool features into Longhorn. Hard to tell which strands of this spaghetti will… Read More

“Ballmer, who was interviewed by Gartner Inc. Senior Vice President Tom Bittmann and Group Vice President Daryl Plummer on a number of subjects at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here, said the massof technologies at Microsoft is so large that the company had no choice but to delay its next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. That said, he told the capacity crowd that various parts of Longhorn, “the Longhorn wave,” were on… Read More

Apple's search technology, which it calls Spotlight, lets Mac users find any file, document or information created by any application on a Macintosh by entering the query in a search at the upper right hand corner of the desktop. Simplifying the search process on a PC's hard drive has emerged as one of the major goals of both Tiger and Microsoft's next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, which is due out in 2006.… Read More

Delays in Microsoft's introduction of its Longhorn operating system could impact companies' plans to upgrade their Windows operating systems, an analyst told business users at the Gartner Data CenterConference, held this week in Las Vegas. Research VP Tom Bittman said he expects Microsoft to release Longhorn sometime between late 2006 and mid-2008–but that the release could be even further out. Because of that delay, Bittman… Read More

Regardless of how one feels about Microsoft, it is hard to dispute the impressive features found with the Longhorn operating system. A database file system, a composite-based graphics engine, and a hardware-accelerated 3D graphical user interface represent just a few of the greattechnologies slated for release with Longhorn in 2006. Too bad the current development version lacks many of the intended GUI updates, plus WinFS appears to still be in… Read More

Bill Gates has offered a peek at the next incarnation of Microsoft Windows, promising it will offer computer users robust security and let them more easily search for files spread across varying programs. The Microsoft chairman began showing the new operating system, code-named Longhorn, to outside software developers so they can begin writing new programs that will work with it. Longhorn is billed as the biggest operating system upgrade since… Read More