any opinions on windows new longhorn ?

[FredLiu]

i've just seen some pics of windows longhorn~~ and some related news too~~
what's your opinions on this new OS?
and from some related articles, i know that the whole programming framwork will move to .net?! (i m not sure i get it correctly, but isn't .net for internet??) dos it mean that longhorn to current win32s is the same as win32 to DOS???
???

any ideas??:rolleyes:

[Deniz]

can we turn this into a topic of what we think about Micro$oft instead? :p

[FredLiu]

Originally posted by Deniz
can we turn this into a topic of what we think about Micro$oft instead? :p

ha ,yes of course~~

but i think guys here in this forum might be more friendly to M$ than those i saw in some hacker communities~~ :cool: :cool:

[Deniz]

Originally posted by FredLiu
ha ,yes of course~~

but i think guys here in this forum might be more friendly to M$ than those i saw in some hacker communities~~ :cool: :cool:

Yeah but thats because they can't afford to buy M$ products :D

[hometown]

Originally posted by FredLiu
i've just seen some pics of windows longhorn~~ and some related news too~~
what's your opinions on this new OS?
and from some related articles, i know that the whole programming framwork will move to .net?! (i m not sure i get it correctly, but isn't .net for internet??) dos it mean that longhorn to current win32s is the same as win32 to DOS???
???

any ideas??:rolleyes:
I have no idea...:rolleyes:

[Rogue.Leader]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/msdnmag/issues/04/01/DevelopingAppsforLonghorn/default.aspx

Check the MSDN link....look at the bottom of the page as to what people voted the information was worth..mwhahaha

[Andreas Masur]

Originally posted by FredLiu
(i m not sure i get it correctly, but isn't .net for internet??)
What is .NET? (http://www.microsoft.com/net/basics/)...

[vass0922]

Windows Longhorn to get FATTER on the client

http://news.com.com/2009-1016-5103226.html?tag=nefd_lede


Longhorn, which had its official coming-out party last week, marks Microsoft's return to "fat client" application development--software that resides largely on desktop or portable PCs rather than on a shared server or network. The company is even considering phasing out the development of a stand-alone browser, instead building Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Web-based applications that would run directly in Longhorn as "native" Windows code.

The result would be "increased lock-in to Windows," said Michael Silver, an analyst at market research firm Gartner. "Microsoft wants enterprises to write browser applications that take advantage of
Longhorn application programming interfaces (APIs), which means that they won't work on non-Longhorn browsers," Silver wrote in a research report last week.

MS was getting upset that people were writing more web apps where the client only needs a web browser and can run on any OS... so they're going to push for going back to FAT (sorry... "obese" ) clients :rolleyes: