After months of keeping its prized cow in the barn, Microsoft is beginning to let Longhorn out of the corral for public viewing.
An early peek at Longhorn
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There was no problem in porting the nt kernel to AMD64, in fact MS had Dave Cutler working with AMD while that cpu was being designed. The problem with windows isn’t the kernel, wich in technical terms is actually very good, the problem is the win32 subsytem (btw subsystems are another great feature of the nt kernel), win32 has been around for a long time, it’s bloated, not very portable and outdated. And that’s the point of longhorn, replacing win32 with a new api. Most, if not all of the problems with windows can be traced back to the win32 subsystem.
you need to look at windows versioning…
windows 2k was windows 5.0… windows XP was windows 5.1
so XP was a service pack?
god you people are morons.
512MB RAM!!!
“MODERN” CPU!!!
They don’t call it Win/Tel for nothin’!
download Quicktime FS, its freeware and gives you fullscreen quicktime
you need to look at windows versioning…
windows 2k was windows 5.0… windows XP was windows 5.1
so XP was a service pack?
Sorry? What does it’s version number have to do with it? They only do major version changes for really big versions now. I.E. 3.1 to 9x = 4. 9x to NT core = 5. Longhorn will be 6. Minor version changes are still big upgrades. If you can’t see all the differences between 2k and XP, you are a moron.