Possible movement of the window manager into user mode? I'm sure that win32k.sys could be moved back into winsrv.dll like it was before NT4. DirectX also supports many optimizations. Why isn't it used more often? IDK, but I'm sure they could start using it without a complete rewrite.Īcceleration? Driver capability negotiation has always been implemented. Scaling? World transformations that provide scaling, rotation and shearing have always (since NT3.1) existed.
I don't understand what is so bad about NT GDI. Quite a nice little tavern, too, if you've got friends who are into skiing or mountain biking and you're not. Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows has an entry in the XP FAQ (near the top, scroll down about 1/5th of the page) and in the Longhorn FAQ (near the bottom) that mention this in lesser detail, though he gets the location of Longhorn wrong. Somewhere along the line, Longhorn became a much more prominant release, so the codename is no longer as appropriate, but that's the root of the name. Thus, Longhorn, because it's a stop on your way from Whistler to Blackcomb.
The initial plan for Windows was supposed to have Longhorn be a small release between XP (Whistler) and Blackcomb, with Blackcomb coming around 2006 or 2007. Between the lifts for the two mountains, there is a tavern called Longhorn. At the Whistler resort, there are two mountains, Whistler and Blackcomb. The name of Longhorn is pretty easy to track if you look at the previous version of Windows (Whistler) and the blue-sky version of Windows (Blackcomb), and know a bit about the Pacific Northwest (specifically, the Whistler ski resort up in Canada). Now please excuse me while I bash my head against the wall for having made sport of my Sith Master, Bill in a prior post.Īs for Longhorn, you'll still buy it like all the other cattle (Ha! Longhorn! Cattle! Now I see the connection!) when it comes out, by the way, I expect the successor to Longhorn to be Bighorn (Guess the species! -) I expect the successor to Longhorn to be Bighorn (Guess the species! -) It should have it's own name: Redmond Syndrome.įurther, you'll probably find everything doesn't work as well with your current video card and networking so you'll have to buy *NEW* stuffįrom vendors - stuff endorsed by Microsoft as being up to snuff with their shell-game specifications.Īs for Longhorn, you'll still buy it like all the other cattle (Ha! Longhorn! Cattle! Now I see the connection!) when it comes out, by the way, Silly Chris, It'll introduce more bugs and keep you more tightly bound than ever to Microsoft Update, because you'll have so much timeĪnd energy vested in keeping your system going you'll be terrified of switching - I think it's something like the Stockholm Syndrome. If most of the updates will be available for current versions of Windows, what is the incentive to upgrade?"
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