Saturday, 30 July 2005

Longhorn: Christmas 2006

Ars Technica reports that Microsoft Windows Vista, the operating system formerly known as Longhorn, will make its debut in time for the 2006 holiday shopping season. Mind you, nobody—not even Microsoft—seems really sure what will actually be in the OS, so this may all turn out to be a massively-hyped non-event, something not entirely unfamiliar to observers of the computer industry.

Tuesday, 19 July 2005

Longhorn faster than XP, claims M$

Microsoft claims that its upcoming Longhorn operating system will outperform Windows XP in a number of areas, including startup and application launch times. While XP’s boot times are not terrible, the area that really needs work is desktop login times; admittedly, most of the crap that slows down login is third-party junk (spyware and virus checkers, “quick launch” tools), but getting that stuff to start faster would be much more helpful than getting me to the login prompt more quickly.

þ: Ars Technica, who are also somewhat skeptical.