3D Longhorn only for some
p2pnet.net News:- Longhorn, the long-awaited, much-put-back Microsoft Windows O/S, will feature “fancy, three-dimensional graphics”. But not if you’ve got an ‘older’ video card. If you do, it’ll “look a lot like Windows 2000″.
That’s a blow.
The bitter news comes in a ZDNet says here which goes on to explain this is because “with Longhorn, Microsoft plans to offer three different graphical interfaces, each requiring a different level of graphics card”.
It doesn’t say if this means you’ll actually be able to see through the Windows windows.
It does, however, quote lead product manager Greg Sullivan as saying the glitz isn’t just glitz.”When you have a terabyte of local storage, potentially, a rich way to relate and gain (access) to the data becomes very important,” Sullivan says. “We’re not doing 3D in the (Windows) shell because it is cool – but it is cool.”
He doesn’t say if e-bugs will still be able to climb through Windows as they do at present.
May 7th, 2004 at 3:37 am
lets hope they spent as much time dicking arpund with quality code as they seem to have on the window dressings (no pun intended, I hope they rot)
May 7th, 2004 at 12:54 pm
>>When you have a terabyte of local storage…
What they really meant to say was “You’ll need a terabyte of local storage to load the OS.”
May 11th, 2004 at 5:07 am
I’d prefer a Windows 2000 look over any other Microsoft fluffed-up gui. A fancy GUI works hell on your CPU/RAM/Graphics card. It doesn’t matter much to me though. By the time Longhorn comes out I’ll be using Linux entirely.