Star Preview: Windows Longhorn Build 4051
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Nov 2003 02:50 UTC
Windows I am waiting for Longhorn. Thus, I was very interested in the new 4051 build. Here are my findings.
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Hmm
by Kingston on Thu 13th Nov 2003 22:46 UTC

I personally find the slate theme to be a hideous waste of space, but it's likely that you'll be able to revert to the good old Windows 2000 look. (I do it whenever I'm stuck in front of an XP machine ;)

I am curious about these memory leaks that are popping up in Longhorn. I was under the impression that the Longhorn API was going to be a superset of the .NET, and that things like memory leaks aren't supposed to happen in .NET managed code. Please correct me if I'm worng.

I would also like to know if the existing code like Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer etc. will be .NET managed code. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure why they wouldn't be at this stage in the game. Again, please correct me if I'm worng.

I think that if Microsoft can stick to the plans they've laid out for Longhorn, that it'll be quite an interesting and useful OS. I can also see them cutting corners along the way, and pushing out something half-baked like Windows ME.

No, I don't hate Microsoft, I just don't like a lot of the things that they do. Longhorn could be great.