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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I know composite wasn't working but I'm pretty underwhelmed. Don't get me wrong, it's looks better than XP and there is not doubt that it will include a lot of nicer technologies (even without WinFS, etc). As a win2003 user I can say it's certainly built off a solid OS. Still though, were looking at over five years of R&D aren't we?
No Apple won't be worried. Tiger, which I haven't used, simply looks awesome. What's amazing is that after five years of strong R&D it still doesn't look like longhorn will catch up to the OS X of today (although some things on the platform side are very impressive, there are several things that windows has over Apple).