Longhorn leak

[Kooldino]

http://news.com.com/2100-1012-990912.html?tag=fd_top

The article discusses WinFS, MS's successor to NTFS. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be the new version of NTFS or whatever it was that was supposed to be launched with XP, but it sounds pretty unique. And a little scary.

[lecter]

A review of the newest leak by good ol' Pauly Thurrot:

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_4008.asp

[Jammrock]

ZDnet: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-990912.html

Anyone daring enough to try it?

Jammrock

[lecter]

Gimme 6 more hours and I'll dare

[BuddMan]

I'm not saying anything....oh wait, I just did.

[Nuno]

You have to be really brave or have a spare system to try a beta leaked OS from MS

[ZokesPro]

I have a buddy who's currently running the Longhorn Beta. He loved XP and ever since he's tried Longhorn he says he'll never go back to XP.

Not sure how good his word is though.

[thop]

The last thing i'd want to do is mess up my installation with this.

[Guru]

Looks even worse then XP!

[DGhost]

honestly you're friend is rather insane if he thinks that this is better than XP. In fact, it is pretty much Windows Server 2003 + Modified UI + little bits of what is to come + bug fixes. Either the features are in there and the UI doesn't yet expose it entirely, or the features are not finished yet.

trust me when I say this looks and acts nothing like Longhorn will when its released.

It does, however, remind me of the early Windows 98 betas. For the longest time it looked like Win95C (or was it D?). sure there were some kernel improvements, but it pretty much just looked like someone replaced all occurances of "Windows 95" with "Memphis", and installed IE4 on it w/ the explorer integration turned on.

[BuddMan]

Originally posted by Guru
Looks even worse then XP!

The alphas never look even close to the finished product. Just look at XP when it was in alpha....

[Topha]

Originally posted by DGhost
It does, however, remind me of the early Windows 98 betas. For the longest time it looked like Win95C (or was it D?). sure there were some kernel improvements, but it pretty much just looked like someone replaced all occurances of "Windows 95" with "Memphis", and installed IE4 on it w/ the explorer integration turned on.

So what is the difference between win98 beta and win98 final?

[BuddMan]

Originally posted by ZokesPro
I have a buddy who's currently running the Longhorn Beta. He loved XP and ever since he's tried Longhorn he says he'll never go back to XP.

Not sure how good his word is though.

He has a beta? Or an alpha? Don't see how he could think the alpha is better than XP....sheesh, it's worse IMO. But that's to be expected of an alpha.

[DGhost]

Topha: hehe, mostly color scheme changes. from a UI perspective, they added some a bunch of other little things that honestly i cannot remember most of them at the moment. I know they replaced all the icons with 256 color versions, made some improvements in the control panels, integrated theme support, etc etc...

Zokes/BuddMan - lol, yeah... when it hits beta it might acctually be something worth writing home about... generally microsoft products have to be mostly feature complete before they will be declared as a Beta.

[Technoid]

In Longhorn, Microsoft plans to introduce a new file system with enhanced storage capabilities. Known as Windows Future Storage (WinFS), the new means for storing, accessing or indexing files will replace NTFS and FAT32, the predecessors used by Windows XP. The file system is intended to make it easier to find information, no matter where it is stored or in what form.

This sounds really scary....

The Longhorn shell is the one area in build 4008 in which you can see steady improvements. My suspicion is that Microsoft is working slowly toward the inclusion in Longhorn of WinFS (Windows Future Storage), the new file system that's based on SQL Server "Yukon" technology. The goal is that the file system will abstract storage for the user, so we no longer need to worry about where data is stored. This change will provide two obvious improvements: First, it will be possible to search contextually ("Show me all of my vacation photos" rather than a search by file name, which is often pointless in the context of digital photos). Secondly, WinFS will unify all of today's disparate data stores. In the future, we won't need separate containers for email, corporate data, Word documents and other data files, and so on. If you search for "Paul Thurrott" in Longhorn, you will retrieve email I've sent to you, documents that contain my name, my Contacts listing, relevant photographs, music I like, and so forth, all in a single, fell swoop. Supposedly.

This makes me almost wanna puke