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Windows Future Storage (WinFS) promises to make the physical location of files irrelevant, thanks to an elaborate system of shortcuts and desktop-based searching.
:rolleyes:
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OS X-style dock
Microsoft is obviously counting on the preponderance of large, high-resolution monitors that have been flooding the market lately, as Longhorn seems to depend on lots and lots of screen real estate. Its most obvious, and most intrusive, interface change is a vertical sidebar, located on the left side of the screen -- similar to the one MSN subscribers are accustomed to, and reminiscent of the Mac OS X Dock. The sidebar holds Windows' QuickLaunch bar (sadly, you can't relocate the QuickLaunch buttons to their normal home on the Taskbar, at least in this build), a desktop search tool and a Longhorn-logo clock. It also has modules for Windows Media Player slide shows and system notifications.
Oh look an OSX style dock. Innovative. (It probably wont be anywhere near as good anyway...)
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but you can put both on the bottom (just like OS X's Dock)
And this from the "we love Windows" goons at zdnet
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Longhorn also seems to take Windows XP's task-based folders to a new level. All system folders, such as My Documents and My Pictures, feature a search pane, folder comments (we'd love to be able to customise these), file information and filters. The filters are yet another layer of the WinFS system. Longhorn's virtual-file structure lets you categorise your files, then filter your folder views by criteria you assign. For example, you can organise music in the Music Library folder using album, artist, playlist, track, song duration or genre, and then filter your folder view so that you see, say, only songs shorter than 1 minute (handy if you want to get rid of incomplete MP3 downloads or corrupted song files, for example). Every folder in Longhorn offers a Filter By option.
Erm did someone say regular expressions? Did someone mention that other people have already implemented this? No? Ok I will - they have.
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In addition, you can use various criteria to stack files in virtual folders. You can stack your contacts (Longhorn includes a My Contacts folder that acts as a central location for all your address book entries, vCards and more) by name, email and address, or stack digital images by your camera type or the date a picture was taken.
Oh dear God this is almost funny. They've already decided to copy OSX's stacks? Fuck I hate these people, I mean copying concepts fine, but FFS at least give them the credit!
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security improvements, including an administrative feature that would restrict the times during which people can log onto their PCs.
Microsoft does not do security improvements, they do press releases claiming they have made security improvements. And the restricted time thing sounds pretty fucked up and useless.
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noticeable interface changes over Windows
Cough cough, you've already tried the theme change = new OS with Windows XP you goons... :rolleyes:
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Windows XP Media Center Edition's personal video recorder capabilities; Windows Media Player is a nearly invisible component of the entire OS;
And I'll bet they'll end up telling the US DOJ that "Windows Media Player cannot be removed without affecting our already poor stability."
BAH! HUM BUG!
