Microsoft's much anticipated and frequently postponed OS may ultimately lack compelling reasons for customers to upgrade.Source: Yahoo News
Déja Vu? Lets rewind to when XP was first announced and then shipped. Many people were asking why they should upgrade. They had Windows 2000 Professional, what did they need XP for? For the most part this is a very relevant question.
Not that I am going to be buying another PC, but I was really looking forward for the largest change of all in Longhorn: WinFS. So much for a new file system.
So I have the same question to pose now, and we will see if it is relevant in 20XX when Longhorn ships: Why should I upgrade from XP to Longhorn?
Article comments
1 - RJ
Isn't increased browsing security an added feature of LH?
2 - dg
Isn't "increased browser security" when discussing a Microsoft browser an oxymoron?
3 - gonzo marx
oh boy..some tech stuff ta let me get my *geek* on...
my understanding is that Longhorn is essentially to take advantage HyperThreading and the new 64 bit processors...effecient utilization of those hardware resources, along with faster front side bus architecture shoudl really speed things up when coupled with an OS designed to utilize them more fully
scope some of the speeds pulled off my a dualie G-5 Mac with OSX and ya will see what i mean..
any other *features* built into the OS are just glitz to get ya ta pay for a new Operating system...
don't bother until you buy a new rig, then it will come installed for ya saving ya both $$, time and frustration
and yes...Windows and security ARE mutually exclusive..
hope that helps...
Excelsior!
4 - The Proprietor
Hopefully there will be some form of functionality akin to *nix's sudo in Longhorn. Too many things like printer and camera drivers have to run with privileged accounts today under current OS versions. If we could encourage and enable users to run as normal users instead of admins, I think we would have a lot less security problems to deal with...