RSSMicrosoft Seeds Developers with More Longhorn Concepts
By David Worthington | Published September 27, 2004, 7:55 PM
Microsoft is offering yet another glimpse at its oft-delayed Longhorn edition of Windows. Two new concept videos have been posted to the MSDN Web site that demonstrate potential real-life scenarios for the software giant's next generation operating system.
The demos -- one geared towards telecoms and the other toward governments -- take a detailed look at longhorn's core technologies and discuss its promised benefits. Longhorn is expected to ship sometime in 2006; although, pundits are questioning Microsoft's ability to deliver on its key components like the WinFS file-storage system and the Avalon graphical subsystem.
I don't believe WinFS nor Avalon will be deployed in time.
Other components like Indigo are more likely to make it.
The rest of those concept videos are now vaporware because
of Microsoft's latest announcements admiting the need to lighten Longhorn to make the realease date. All the concept
videos are based on WinFS technology, either heavily using
it or to some part. Reminds me of a Byte magazine March 1992 pg 26. column I read "Microsoft may offer a limited voice recognition capability for Windows this year". We all know that didn't happen.
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