Longhorn: Microsoft's future Windows release -A review

Longhorn a codename given to Microsoft's upcoming Windows release as Whistler to the Windows XP. Longhorn is Microsoft's most talked about future Windows release. It is an upcoming ambitious Windows release from Microsoft. Longhorn is Microsoft's dream project once visualized as the minor upgrade version of Windows XP. But now Longhorn will have all possible upgrades with a new security feature called Palladium, 3D-enabled user interface, and... list is very long with many more mind-blowing new features.

Longhorn is the upcoming OS from Windows series of Microsoft. It will include new upgraded versions of Windows, Windows Server, .NET, MSN, Microsoft Office, and other exciting features. Though a year away from launching, interest in Longhorn has been building exponentially. Initially it was expected to be a minor upgrade there is also a minor Windows Server revision with a number of new features including a revised task-based user interface, an extensible, dock-like, Sidebar, and a SQL Server 2003-based storage engine called WinFS (Windows Future Storage). Microsoft is planning different versions of Windows Longhorn.

Longhorn with Task-based interface & many more features

Totally new task-based interface will be the main attraction of Longhorn. This new user interface is code-named "Aero" and is based on a new .NET-based graphics API called "Avalon," which replaces earlier graphics APIs such as GDI and GDI+ found in Windows XP.

To deliver realistic special effects Longhorn will have 3D video hardware and 3D-enabled user interface making your desktop more live and realistic.

Microsoft is developing the Palladium security technology along with Intel and AMD, which will be included in Windows Longhorn version. Palladium stops viruses and worms. The system won't run malicious programs, preventing viruses from intruding your system.

Palladium will check and eliminate the Spam before it even hits your email inbox. Unsolicited mail that you might actually want to receive will be allowed only if it matches your predetermined user-defined standards.

Microsoft will offer a subscription-based AV feature to Longhorn customers that use AutoUpdate to keep your system up-to-date with new virus signatures.

With integrated recordable DVD capabilities Longhorn will work with every type of recordable DVD format. You will be able to copy video from a digital camcorder directly to recordable DVD. No need of hard drive intervention.

An advanced version of the successful Error Reporting Tool (ERT) in Longhorn will enable Microsoft to fix the errors electronically and automatically to users.

Find your data on PC more easily with Longhorn

With the addition of Relational Database Capabilities to the file system Microsoft is trying to relieve a tension of finding your own data on your own PC. This move by Microsoft is definitely appreciable since it will save your precious time to find your own files and folders, email, and stored data on your hard drive.

Microsoft is also planning to add a new file system called Libraries, that will act as organizer of data in Longhorn, irrespective of where they are physically stored in the system. With this feature your Photos & Movies Library would collect links to every digital photo and digital video on your PC.

Longhorn OS will take merely 15 minutes to install with hundreds of new APIs that will let provide access to the new system's features. Instead of Win32 API it will have more advanced new .NET-based API called WinFX with new communications and collaboration system.

Curious to know the history behind the name Longhorn! The name longhorn is not selected randomly but derived from a saloon named Longhorn that serves the local skiing population situated close to Microsoft's headquarters at the foot of Whistler Mountain, interesting... I hope the launch of the Longhorn will be as interesting as this.

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