Big Booger
May 3rd, 2005, 09:46 AM
http://www.jcxp.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1499
Quite an array of screenshots to familiarize yourself with the longhorn platform. This is supposedly an alpha build and was released quite recently at WinHEC.
Another great article discussing the new build:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10470
So, with WinHEC coming to a close, the biggest talk was of course the newest release of Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Codename Longhorn, now at build 5048. With nearly one year since the previous release (build 4074) build 5048 sports some new features and lacks some others. Recently, the talk was centered around the lack of WinFS, the new futuristic Windows File system. However, we'll get to all that a little later.
The whole install was simple enough, I started it while I was in Windows XP. It was simple enough, it asked for the basic things, and it was on it's way. It rebooted around half-way through and booted into a Windows Pre-Installation Enviornment to finsh. The process was extremely simple and very efficent, a child could have completed it. I then booted into the OS to experience, what I had thought, would be a driver war zone. However, infact, the driver database turned out to be pretty good. My wireless (Broadcom 802.11g) wasn't recognized but was available on my Windows Restore disk, same with my modem, and my Display Drivers (ATi Mobility Radeon 9600) were available on http://www.ati.com. Infact, Longhorn recognized more hardware then either Windows XP or Windows XP x64 in a 'stock' install.
Very interesting indeed.
Quite an array of screenshots to familiarize yourself with the longhorn platform. This is supposedly an alpha build and was released quite recently at WinHEC.
Another great article discussing the new build:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10470
So, with WinHEC coming to a close, the biggest talk was of course the newest release of Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Codename Longhorn, now at build 5048. With nearly one year since the previous release (build 4074) build 5048 sports some new features and lacks some others. Recently, the talk was centered around the lack of WinFS, the new futuristic Windows File system. However, we'll get to all that a little later.
The whole install was simple enough, I started it while I was in Windows XP. It was simple enough, it asked for the basic things, and it was on it's way. It rebooted around half-way through and booted into a Windows Pre-Installation Enviornment to finsh. The process was extremely simple and very efficent, a child could have completed it. I then booted into the OS to experience, what I had thought, would be a driver war zone. However, infact, the driver database turned out to be pretty good. My wireless (Broadcom 802.11g) wasn't recognized but was available on my Windows Restore disk, same with my modem, and my Display Drivers (ATi Mobility Radeon 9600) were available on http://www.ati.com. Infact, Longhorn recognized more hardware then either Windows XP or Windows XP x64 in a 'stock' install.
Very interesting indeed.