Scarthy © ® ™ Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 Hi all ;) ,Just found this Interesting Site.It has pictures of the new OS from Micro$oft codenamed 'Longhorn'.Now that we've all had the opportunity to play with Windows 2003 for a few weeks now, anyone ready for a real desktop operating system? Well its not that good yet but its obvious that codename Longhorn is progressing in leaps and bounds. With the 2003 team all free and coming back from vacation soon, we can expect much more regular glimpses at Microsoft's next-gen desktop. Build 4015, although only 7 builds away from our last glimpse, notice the build date. They are obviously not up to the full build speed that we can expect with betas. Points of note:(Build 4015.main.030328-1500) DX 9 (9.0.900)WMP 9 (2991)Windows Messenger 5A curious kill button which kills and restarts Explorer, located on the sidebar. Well, while waiting to play with it yourself, check out a couple of screen shots and stay tuned.Just click the numbered links 1-12 for the images... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 looking quite good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest he he :-)™ Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 what the (a train goes by outside) is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nellie2 Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 Thanks for the link Scarthy © ® ™, it looks very pretty......but........will it be much of an improvement on what is available at the mo?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince of Calcutta Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 i think i like xp's appearance better :unsure: i'm sure it'll be different when it finally comes out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 it looks very pretty......but........will it be much of an improvement on what is available at the mo??Oh yes!Reading other reviews on what is to come, just about everything you can think of under the bonnet will be changed.But we will have to wait until the beta's role out for the public to use, maybe late next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince of Calcutta Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 do you have any links to those reviews craig .. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L3@©H¥ ²°°³ Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 that O/S looks ownage B) Anyone know dates when it is expected due out? :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 bit of reading here prince http://www.cnet.com/software/0-806340-1204...729.html?tag=sd put email here to be alerted when its available http://www.cnet.com/software/resellers/0-8...40-311-21008729 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince of Calcutta Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 thanks :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarthy © ® ™ Posted April 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2003 There are some new 4015 screenshots available for anyone who is interested (inc. a new wallpaper)... :P Click Here For Details. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted April 26, 2003 Report Share Posted April 26, 2003 nice bit of a worry how much resources are going to be needed to drive longhorn <_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted April 27, 2003 Report Share Posted April 27, 2003 And the amount of HD space it takes up, XP has taking 15gbs for it's own pleasure :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarthy © ® ™ Posted April 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 Redhat Posted on Sunday 27th April 2003, 16:35-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And the amount of HD space it takes up, XP has taking 15gbs for it's own pleasureAre you sure about that? My Windows XP takes around 4-5GB up...All the rest are files/ music/ pictures/ Received Files etc etc ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rome Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 Forget Hard drive space!You will need everything else up to top spec as possible.The desktop will be (reported) Direct 3D'eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed. Meaning a very nice graphics card will be needed, CPU, RAM blaaa....My insiders (that just me with a hat and mac on, smokin' a pipe) tell me that 512MB + will be needed...Were at that stage now where 512MB is common is systems, i suspect that that when Longhorn goes gold, the common RAM then will be 1GB and +.So to some extent a whole new computer will be needed. As stated Longhorn is major revamp meaning not just a pretty Version of Windows 2000 that XP was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 Ok, for one thing 512mb is not normally refered to as the standard these days, maybe on brand new computers tho.1gb of memory for longhorm IMO is a very out of sense figure. Microsoft want to reach the most amount of people they can, as it = more cash. They are not going to limit it to people with stupid and unecessary amounts of memory.Just my opinion :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rome Posted May 5, 2003 Report Share Posted May 5, 2003 Opinion noted...But its 2+ years away so lets wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chris Posted May 12, 2003 Report Share Posted May 12, 2003 Rome?Looks like he/shes "kinda right"..."This means Longhorn is going to have some heady requirements, at least compared with today's Windows. The bare minimum Longhorn system will have to be able to display at least 1024 x 768 with 32-bit color, and it must include a hardware accelerated 3D video card with at least 64 MB of RAM. But this is the base requirement: To take advantage of the fun eye candy Microsoft has planned, you'll need advanced video hardware with at least 128 MB of RAM. Kerry Hammil, a Program Manager with the Windows Client Platform, abstracted this somewhat by stating that the lower-end requirements were roughly analogous to the kind of system needed to run DirectX 7-level technologies. The upper-end requirements are more akin to DirectX 9, she said."http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/longh...review_2003.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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