Longhorn is stil early in development, a lot of the features it has now may or may not be included in the final version of the product. From what has been released pf the specs for the OS, it will be different than XP to a certain extent.
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Joseph W. Conway, MCSE
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Has anyone had a chance to use Longhorn? How much different is it from XP?
The current build made available to developers does not on the outside look
or feel significantly different to Windows XP.
This is understandable about a product that will not be released for a
significant amount of time (you will not even see the first beta until later
next year).
The end user experience will become more visible as we approach Beta 1 and
then through the rest of the development cycle.
There are lots of sites that have various "review" etc of the initial
developers alpha release.
Just do a search using your preferred Internet Search Engine.
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Mike
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Has anyone had a chance to use Longhorn? How much different is it from XP?
Buggy, glitzy, not any better that what you have. In fact
the one I got you slipstreamed into XP Pro like a service
pac. It will have some features you don't have now , but
if you don't need them there would be no reason to have it.
just downloading it as we speak so will let you know
i have heard however that there is very little in the way
of optimisation in it yet and as such you need a powerful pc
to run it.also heard that it is surprisingly stable for a dev build
but then seeing as MS wanted this version "out there" thats not
too surprising.
I guess this is same as "What do the 2005 cars look like?"
When it gets here or Microsoft wants to release it you
will see what it looks like. Hopefully there will not be
much new stuff to invest in.
| I guess this is same as "What do the 2005 cars look like?"
| When it gets here or Microsoft wants to release it you
| will see what it looks like. Hopefully there will not be
| much new stuff to invest in.
We can all hope! But MS has shown almost no obvious concern in the past for
sticking with standards they themselves established in past incarnations of
Windows. And then when something doesn't work because MS has changed the game
plan, they claim it's the fault of whomever makes that troublesome software or
hardware.
Windows seems to be a forever moving target, but I guess that's the price of
progress. :-o
Larc
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