quote: The Desktop Composition Engine (DCE) has been written from the ground up to support wide aspect ratio displays.
quote: This allows for some impressive handling and lets you apply to your application windows the kind of features you'd only find on a skinning site, such as alpha blends. As you might expect, this will be handled by DirectX.
quote: in the style of minimised application icons on the dock in Mac OS X,
quote: This allows DVD distributors to produce self-destructing discs
quote:Multiple instances of the same application will still contract into one task bar position which, when clicked, pops up a menu, allowing you to pick the one you want to access.Right-clicking the group gives you the option to tile its members horizontally or vertically, which is great for comparing websites or documents side by side.
quote:The DCE, effectively an API (Application Program Interface) codenamed Avalon, radically alters the way in which the operating system draws on-screen data.
quote:Avalon, though, sees the desktop as a number of layers, just like a Photoshop image. It can therefore distribute active programs onto their own dedicated layer to form a stack of windows.As such, even unseen items will exist in this stack regardless of whether or not they are visible on screen.This allows for some impressive handling and lets you apply to your application windows the kind of features you'd only find on a skinning site, such as alpha blends. As you might expect, this will be handled by DirectX.
quote:Longhorn is the first truly component-based desktop operating system. By this we mean that the base installation is not necessarily a fixed configuration on top of which manufacturers install their own modifications.By componentising the OS in this way, Microsoft has given hardware and software vendors the ability to physically replace key sections of the base code to produce truly customised releases.
quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:Hey, maybe I should write my own review.
quote:Bend Over And Enjoy!
quote:By collaborating with compatible hardware from the likes of Intel and AMD, every file can be invisibly tagged and set to work on only specified machines, or stop working altogether after a set amount of time. This allows DVD distributors to produce self-destructing discs, or corporates to write documents that can't be read outside their own network.Going beyond that, though, the Trustworthy Computing Initiative can also be used for verification and identification, and, if adopted by online banks or retailers, it should add considerable security to their services.
quote:By collaborating with compatible hardware from the likes of Intel and AMD, every file can be invisibly tagged and set to work on only specified machines, or stop working altogether after a set amount of time.
quote:The first thing you notice about the Longhorn interface is the task pane, called the Sidebar, which runs down the right-hand side of the screen...The Sidebar is effectively an XML-based aggregator and, although its content is fairly simple at the moment and mostly centred on Windows-related tasks, in theory it could in the future act as a news ticker or weather tracker just as effectively as it can emulate a computer navigation tool.
quote:Avalon, though, sees the desktop as a number of layers, just like a Photoshop image. It can therefore distribute active programs onto their own dedicated layer to form a stack of windows.As such, even unseen items will exist in this stack regardless of whether or not they are visible on screen.
quote:By collaborating with compatible hardware from the likes of Intel and AMD, every file can be invisibly tagged and set to work on only specified machines, or stop working altogether after a set amount of time.This allows DVD distributors to produce self-destructing discs, or corporates to write documents that can't be read outside their own network.