Re: Testing Longhorn

An Operating System is designed to work with a CPU - in the case of Longhorn
the 64 bit architecture has been well defined and even available ahead of the
sofware release.

WHat makes it all happen is the HAL - hardware abstraction layer
[essentially a series of programs or utilities that accomodate the
translation and management of Operating System requests and hardware specific
functions].

Longhorn is built around three major advances--a new graphics and
presentation engine known as Avalon, a new communications architecture known
as Indigo, and a new file system known as WinFS that borrows from Microsoft's
relational database technology.

Now where is the 'not available now stuff?



"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote:

> Modem Ani wrote:
> > I'm asking this purely out of interest:
> >
> > How does Microsoft test the next version of Windows when much of the
> > hardware on which it will run has yet to be manufactured, or even
> > designed?
> >
> > Modem Ani
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> As Longhorn is scheduled for release in just over a year, I think you'll
> find that much of the hardware on which it will run has been designed - and
> some may even have been manufactured.
>
> --
> In memory of MS MVP Alex Nichol: http://www.dts-l.org/
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