Longhorn Becomes Windows Vista™

[Vishal Gupta 4]

Guys!

Microsoft has announced the final name of Longhorn, (the next generation of Windows) which will have a very good security.

The operating system, due out in 2006, will now be known as Windows Vista with the tag line, "Bringing clarity to your world."

Microsoft's qoute:

Beta 1, targeted at developers and IT professionals, will be available by August 3rd 2005.

The first beta will include only some of Vista's promised functionality, such as virtual folders and a new desktop search engine, but will not include much of the graphical user interface (GUI) enhancements of the finished product.

Those features will be available in beta 2.

Windows Vista Homepage

Microsoft Vista logo

I'm attaching the Official Vista Wallpaper also.

ENJOY!!!

[gids 0]

it sure is a long time after we'll have a diff version of windows.

[Vishal Gupta 4]

Microsoft says it will call the next version of its operating system "Windows Vista" as it prepares to release a wave of new products after posting its slowest-ever year of growth.

Windows Vista, formerly known by its code-name Longhorn, is scheduled for a worldwide launch in the second half of 2006, five years after Windows XP, the longest time lag between releases of its flagship operating system that runs on nine out of 10 personal computers worldwide.

Microsoft has promised many enhancements in Windows Vista, including better security, graphics and computing over the Web.

"It's in the consumer area that they have the best hope of rapid adoption," said Rob Helm, analyst at independent researcher Directions on Microsoft.

Brad Goldberg, general manager, Windows product development at Microsoft, said more details on Vista would be released at a developers' conference in September and a beta, or test version, by August 3.

New products, including Windows Vista, the next version of Office, new database software and the Xbox 360 video game console are expected to help Microsoft return to double-digit growth after the company said on Thursday that yearly revenue grew 8 per cent to US$39.79 billion ($58.15 billion), the slowest yearly growth since Microsoft went public in 1986.

Shares in the company fell 2.6 per cent to US$25.75 on Nasdaq on Friday after it said earnings for the current fiscal quarter would be just below Wall Street's expectations.

At current prices, Microsoft is valued at 16 times projected earnings, compared with the average 24 times earnings valuation seen for the broader software sector.

Courtesy: The New Zealand Herald

[vb86 0]

apparently they might need to change the name since its already been registered 6yrs bk in usa.

[deepu 0]

Anybody knows about the hardware requirements!!!

[Vishal Gupta 4]

Hardware Requirements for Longhorn

Average Longhorn PC requires a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6 GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.

[anujit 0]

I think thats asking a lil too much even for a resource hogging windows system!

Especially since it has different "modes" of running i.e. cutting out on excessive graphics fat.

[deepu 0]

Hardware Requirements for Longhorn

Average Longhorn PC requires a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6 GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.

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You got to be kidding!!!

[jigar657 0]

Hardware Requirements for Longhorn

Average Longhorn PC requires a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6 GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.

Hahaha vishal !! aur koi mila nahi kya !!

is microsoft making longhorn only for supercomputers ??? :'(

jigar

[Vishal Gupta 4]

Guys!

I just googled for it, copied the info & pasted it here...

SIMPLE! :'(

[ashoksoft 83]

Supercomputers ? My a** that seems to be some Giga-Uber-Ultra computer..... btw ... how many users do those smart guys at MS expect to shift over to Vista?

I am sure... they will scale it down very soon... or very soon it will not be 9/10 windows users.... he he

Cheers

Ashok

[Puneet 0]

Hardware Requirements for Longhorn

Average Longhorn PC requires a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6 GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.

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Check this out:

Windows Vista Hardware

[Vishal Gupta 4]

Some real Longhorn/Vista screenshots

[Vishal Gupta 4]

Winsupersite.com is providing a lot of screenshots of Vista, & I mean a lot

Computer

Control Panel

The new Search

Pictures & Videos

Music

[StaticElectricity 8]

As of today this configuration seems far fetched..

Hardware Requirements for Longhorn

Average Longhorn PC requires a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6 GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.

but by fourth quarter 2006 or first quarter 2007 that'll be and average home desktop PC.

And i'd really like to see some o/s giving tough competition to win98se , as for me, xp loses at point 0.

[anujit 0]

Wonder what they're testing it out on.

Especially since when they started Longhorn development I dont think they had 4 Ghz Pentiums out.

[StaticElectricity 8]

yup, thats why the front end is not yet developed.

anyways, for a company like microsoft , providing a computer with 5-6 parallel processesors to their dev team, no big deal.

[rEdshiFt 1]

this is firefox and IE running in windows vista.

[anujit 0]

Static:

They can develop the thing on supercomputers for all I care... but they have to run the damn thing on ordinary machine to see if it works!

And the front-end isnt developed because their management/planning/coding/testing s**ks not because they didnt have 4GHz P4s! Which is why they gave up on it. Maybe you'll see it in Win 2010 version!

[deepu 0]

Intel aur Microsoft bhai bhai log hain!!!

Intel usually releases PCs with all latest microprocessors fit in much before it gets to Open market to software companies like Microsoft to test them out.

Microsoft uses such PCs to test their OS!!!

[anujit 0]

Yes Deepu while this argument is irrelevent.

Testing beta products on top of beta products hardly makes good test cases.

Edited August 3, 2005 by anujit

[Vishal Gupta 4]

thnx rEdshiFt 4 the screenshot.

Vista looks gr8.

I'm dying to install it...

[Vishal Gupta 4]

Now some more from myside:

[Chirag 5]

It all seems jazz on the outside like Windows XP... Hope there is something worthwhile on the inside!!

[rEdshiFt 1]

found it on a forum earlier:

Longhorn's most useful feature "leaked "as XP tweak

According to the article,--->Externer Link http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,...2129TX1K0000535 the Voles in the Redmond Vole Hill will deliver some astounding features.

Those include the ability to launch apps 15% faster than Windows XP, boot PCs 50% faster, patch systems with 50% fewer reboots, and let firms migrate to Longhorn 75% per cent faster.

The only reason why its faster is they added a superfetch feature to the prefetcher. If you look at the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management\Prefetcher

you will notice in windows xp;

EnablePrefetcher = 3

and you will notice in windows longhorn;

EnableSuperfetch = 1

Well, guess what? You can put the EnableSuperfetch = 1 in windows xp and get the same speed.

Wow, Microsoft just added a feature that was already there in xp.

From what I have been reading the tweak is designed for at least Windows XP SP2.

So maybe someone who has SP2 installed can see if improves anything.

Zitat:

One of the many claims Microsoft makes for Windows Longhorn is that it wil launch applications 15% faster than Windows XP does currently. This is down to improvements in the Prefetch functionality. There's no need to wait until Longhorn arrives; this improvement is already in Windows XP thanks to Service Pack 2. It just needs to be turned on.

To enable super prefetch:

* Use a registry editing tool (run>regedit) to navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

* Insert a value with the following details:

Data Type: DWORD

Value Name: EnableSuperfetch

Value: 1

* Reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.

please back up the registry entry first before you do it.

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It's cool. Here's what to do:

Once in the folder you need to add the reg file, PrefetchParameters, right click>new>DWORD value.

Call that new file EnableSuperprefetch.

Double Click>set value to 1, it was 0, now it should be 1.

change value of "EnablePrefetch' to 0

Reboot.

Courtesy of ...M@X... of WW and MM

im NOT gonna promise anything, it seemed to slow my boot-time...but actually, It does work, takes a day or two and a number of reboots to establish which appz get priority in Prefetch but better than the normal Prefetch setting.

post ur comments...