Linked by Anthony Barboza on Mon 2nd May 2005 06:30 UTC
So, with WinHEC coming to a close, the biggest talk was of course the newest release of Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Codename Longhorn, now at build 5048. With nearly one year since the previous release (build 4074) build 5048 sports some new features and lacks some others. Recently, the talk was centered around the lack of WinFS, the new futuristic Windows File system. However, we'll get to all that a little later.
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What we really have to focus here is one question: Is Longhorn going to SOLVE any of the current problems or is it going to introduce more problems?
You see Mac OS X 10.4 (aka Tiger) sloves one big problem that the users have: finding files regardless of the place they are located. I don't care about Dashboard or any other eyecandy that Tiger comes with. If Longhorn can solve one big problem (and not introduce any) Microsoft will have a chance. The glass effect, hardware accelerated graphics and all the crap that just make the OS look pretty don't matter (or at least shouldn't matter).