Longhorn Rumors: What's true and what isn't
Ok. I have read some rumors about Windows Longhorn online and, from what I could decipher, Here is what is believed to be true:
1. It will most likely be released sometime mid 2006
2. There is word from Microsoft that IT WILL BE ABANDONING THE NT PLATFORM BEFORE LONGHORN'S FINAL RELEASE. It will most likely keep the version of Windows 6.0, but the entire NT based platform will be abandoned. This means it will be based on an entirely new platform. So, I don't know what else is going to come, but for right now, it is NT based.
3. There will be a 32-bit and a 64-bit version of its release.
More Rumors to come.
Feel free to post any news or more rumors you have heard in here.
*Note: I'm not sure that any of this is 100% accurate, but it is very close. I hold NO responsibility of what is posted. These are rumors entirely and are not official until said so by Microsoft.
1. It will most likely be released sometime mid 2006
2. There is word from Microsoft that IT WILL BE ABANDONING THE NT PLATFORM BEFORE LONGHORN'S FINAL RELEASE. It will most likely keep the version of Windows 6.0, but the entire NT based platform will be abandoned. This means it will be based on an entirely new platform. So, I don't know what else is going to come, but for right now, it is NT based.
3. There will be a 32-bit and a 64-bit version of its release.
More Rumors to come.
Feel free to post any news or more rumors you have heard in here.
*Note: I'm not sure that any of this is 100% accurate, but it is very close. I hold NO responsibility of what is posted. These are rumors entirely and are not official until said so by Microsoft.
Comments
Tom is Right.
AND, NTFS isint going away, from WHAT i HEARD, WinFS is NTFS with a SQL based Indexing service for your files. AND its not comming out in the release BUT comming as an addon.
-Q
PS. O BTW this doesn't look like support. *Moved to Talk > Windows*
-Q
But who knows, what MS will do with Longhorn in future!
to have the new file system in place by the time of the release but
have since delayed it. They have not abandoned the idea and still
mean to but not in time for the release.
Thump
First it's slow
Second it's not very secure (I agree, its better than fat, but not perfect)
And so on...
So I guess NTFS will soon die.
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes. 18 billion gigs. I think we'll be fine for a while. I also don't find NTFS to be slow, but rather find compatibility (with DOS and Linux) to be an issue.
Isn't there encryption on some version of NTFS? NTFS 5 was the first one with it, but what OS does that version of the file system correspond with, 2000?
The DOS readability is an issue for bootdisks and other OSes.
NTFS 5 (2000) and maybe older versions could encrypt files (Referred to as EFS). I helped Fish with that when before he had Verizon and was scared of Qwest.
-Q
If you fuck up, you can use the repair concole on the Windows CD or get something like NTFS DOS. Works fine for me.
I've never used NTFS for DOS though.
-Q
However, NTFS has some security issues.
You cannot set some permissions that you can set in Linux.
And sometimes set permissions is not working at all>
Yes, the RC has more functionality then DOS, but I found it to be VERY terse.
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