currahee
Sep 12 2004, 01:50 AM
| | The release was pushed back to 2006-2007 officially from 2005 due to work on Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2.
With the push back to 2006, Microsoft has decided to axe the dev time and removed WinFS. Now they are facing pressure as WinFS was a main component of Windows that was highly anticipated. It basically a faster and more organized memory manager let's say and Microsoft removed it.
I have no clue where the fate of Longhorn lies.
And they're not Beta copies. Microsoft has not publicly announced a Beta. They're all alpha builds. |
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Trekkie101
Sep 12 2004, 10:52 AM
You know with microsoft you can never tell but i think longhorn will get axed it is the most delayed piece of software ever.
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dissipate
Sep 12 2004, 02:06 PM
I'm really interested to know how much more stable and secure it will be compared to what we have now from Microsoft, and whether there will be hundreds of bug reports and fixes soon after its release.
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currahee
Sep 12 2004, 03:34 PM
Well XP Service Pack 2 had some Longhorn technology transferred to it such as the prevention of the buffer underrun attacks. As far as holes go dissipate, don't get too excited. Its still built on top of Windows NT which is quiet disappointing to me. Microsoft although its painful should really start making a new Windows core that can emulate Win9x/WinNT programs.
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