[Am-info] First look at future of Windows [Longhorn]

[Erick Andrews]

Without a complete redesign of their "operating system" [if
that's what you call it], MS security will never happen.
My embedded comments, below.

See:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3220017.stm

"Microsoft said the new version will have better
security, make it easier to organise and find files
and need to be restarted much less often."  [Right-o, --E.A.]

[...]

"Bill Gates said that Longhorn will have a unified
storage system called WinFS. This will use
web-derived technology to make it possible to
search for and categorise any type of file with just 
one system instead of separate ones for every
application. 

["web-derived technology"?  Code words for usurping
the W3C to 'embrace, extend, and extinguish'.  Also, you'll
need an a new 8-GHz CPU with built-in 1 TByte storage.  --E.A.]

"Such a flexible system would be needed, said Mr Gates, 
because in the future people are likely to generate 'oceans' 
of information that they will need to search through quickly.   ..."

[In other words, 'oceans' is desirable, no tools, methods or
architecture for reduction and efficiency. --E.A.]

-- 
Erick Andrews