Windows Vista 1013 Published by Bob 0

A Microsoft exec says there's a lot more to Longhorn than Windows XP Service Pack 3. Redmond expects this "big deal" will create opportunity, especially for new programs leveraging its peer-to-peer platform.

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Windows Vista 1013 Published by Bob 0

As Microsoft approaches a major milestone in the development of Longhorn, company executives are talking more about the features of the Windows XP successor, which they say will be easier to use, more secure, and less costly to manage than earlier versions of Windows.

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Software engineers who attend Microsoft's annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference later this month could get their first taste of a new Windows user permissions model that could change the way thousands of programs are developed and run. But as the company prepares for the final Longhorn development push, questions remain about its plans for a new user privileges model called Least-Privilege User Account, or LUA.

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The rumors of WinFS' death have been greatly exaggerated, according to Tom Rizzo, Microsoft's director of product management for SQL Server, who said the next-generation file and storage system is currently being backported for Windows XP, according to a report.

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Microsoft will meet with representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) next month for the first of several briefings intended to ensure that its upcoming Longhorn operating system complies with the terms of the final judgment in the government's antitrust case against the software maker.

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Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Even though Microsofts much-anticipated Longhorn has been stripped of its unified file system and some of its other key Longhorn technologies will be available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the next Windows release will still be worth the upgrade, according to Microsoft.

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Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The meaning of Microsoft's Longhorn cuts, announced Friday, is just starting to sink in on Monday. Longhorn evangelist Robert Scoble has some good links and interesting observations on what led up to Microsoft's ultimate decision to ax WinFS and port Avalon to older versions of Windows.

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Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft Corp.'s retreat from its Longhorn ambitions and its decision to add several Longhorn technologies to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 may rob the next Windows release of its glamor, but users and developers gain more than they lose, some observers said Friday.

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