Comments on: Photos: A look at Longhorn

Graphics improvements and virtual folders are among features touted in Microsoft's new operating system.

The ever-prophetic Windows

What amazes me is Microsoft's ability to use features that they are going to have two years down the road as selling points.

For instance...

"Mac OSX may have smart folders, but Longhorn's smart folders are going to be better!"

Let me get this straight...Another system beat you to this kickass feature...and you're saying that your copycat feature is going to have things it doesn't have -right now-...but in two years...assuming they don't add it during that time...

Gimme a break.

[iampatrick]

microsoft is always a step

Behind. and they always try to make standards that only work
with there Software like this .net, Media Player Quick time &
iTunes is clearly easier in importing in standard formats that
other programs able to read. trading media like music, home
movies and Photographs between Apps to create a story or a
presentation the all G4s and newer Macs can do this out of the
box. i now have friends the fix Microsoft Networks with their
iBook running Mac OS 10 its funny and also nice to see Apple as
a tool to fix Windows and other types of sever apps. I really think
longhorn will prove that Mac os 10 is more empowering.

[Crucegg435]

lets just remember

The desktop wars are over, both sides have said so. We should
just go on, but it is obvious that some of us can't let go. If one
side copies, then so be it, in the end justice will rule.

"Every revolution carries within it the seeds of it's own
destruction. Every empire that rises will one day fall."

That was a line of Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, specifically
the miniseries. I personally use a mac, i love it, and i am okay
with not having some things. Oh well, i have all my important
thins, like Microsoft Office, quicktime, and iTunes.

So be happy with your decision, and do not hapr on the
decisions of others, we are all individuals, we are all humans.

[almsoft]

What could longhorn offers?

I think it's too early to get longhorn running on our computers, we did not yet get the ‎maximum usage of XP editions and longhorn just released!; and then what is the next? ‎Please think about production and real improvement it needs not les than 3 years to ‎develop a new windows editions, I think it?s not a right time to have a longhorn.‎