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Old 15-01-2005, 15:57   #46
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Will I buy Longhorn? No. Will it be on my computer? Probably
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Yep, I always thought that WinFS was the most interesting new feature of Longhorn.... not interesting enough to make me buy it, but to make me look at it. Now, it looks like it's not even ready
WinFS is nice, but not really that interesting tbh. Avalon and Aero are much more exciting, Avalon will be ported over to WinXP and Win2003, but Aero will stay exclusive to Longhorn.

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I don't like the looks on Longhorn. Far too much blue
Those screens are from an early build, don't expect the final release to look anything like that
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Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
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WinFS is nice, but not really that interesting tbh. Avalon and Aero are much more exciting, Avalon will be ported over to WinXP and Win2003, but Aero will stay exclusive to Longhorn.
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What are Avalon and Aero?
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What are Avalon and Aero?
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Avalon is a "new graphical subsystem that enables not only richer control design and development, but it also relies heavily on a vector-based system instead of the more common pixel-based one."

Aero is the new GUI powered by DirectX
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I won't be buying the new version, I'm switching to linux.
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Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
Im staying XP, I am gonna hold strong here till we have longhorn sp99 or something stupid to fix with all the crap that HAS to go wrong with this NEW improved system.
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I'll evaluate it @ work as part of our volume license agreement. If it's any good I'll have it on my home box.
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