Windows Longhorn; Has MS gone too far?

ZibingsCoder

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/a/a/6aa5bc74-59a4-4673-82e7-4ae2d54e1471/CommercialRealEstate-640x480.wmv

You'll need Windows Media Player 9 to view this I believe..but I want to know if this freaks anyone else out as much as it does me.

bad76

Hi,
I hope M$ will be wrong. But...

The power of the longhorn is the meta-asm language that allows to use an executable on any platform (like a XEON-based pc...) where is the sysop. This ideas was at the base of the java language, and was a success.

It's possible to program a complete application with only XML, and only a bit of other language. However the structure is that of .NET, so you can use in the same time code in C#, asp, vbasic, C++... to make your program.

All of communication are XML-based.

The file system is accessible from anywhere, because it's just a DB.

The faults? only the users. That will write terrible application in XML, self-calling 'coder'. That will violate the poor security of any pc on the earth, self-calling 'hacker'. That make query like 'DELETE FROM hdisk' and after will ask you to find "where is a documents where he wrote...", self-calling... 'geek'.

... I want the "dir" command !

Ps: Actually already exists a portable sysop like longhorn, the AmigaDE, and work on 5/6 different platform. But was a fiasco.

ZibingsCoder

I understand that the demo shown here is just that, a demo of what CAN be done, but, it scares me if those are things that will be done, and you know that MS will make programs like that, and we'll all have our own digital certificate that can be seen by anyone. It's...it just scares me.

Merve

Could you please give me the gist of the video; I have a slow internet connection....but if it is what I think it is, we are a doomed people.

ZibingsCoder

Well, basically, it is a demonstration of one of the many commercial applications that would be possible with Windows Longhorn. It focuses on a fake real estate company and walks you through what a real estate agent working for this company might do in a "typical" sale. It shows off how well Longhorn can communicate with larger sources of data thanks to it's architecture, and it also uses that to display the POSSIBLE (heh, we all know it'll happen) wealth of data that can be available through complicated networks setup with Longhorn. By the time it got to the point explaining how I could (as Joe RealEstate) have access to all of my customer's credit information, etc through the system...I started to get a little scared. They then showed how seamlessly it can do things such as overlay up-to-date airial pictures on top of up-to-date sattelite images of lots...

Basically, it just involved way too much information at the fingertips of those businesses. Maybe I just read too far into it, but...I think this spells bad news.

Shrike

I think the real scare of Longhorn is in the DRM. Websites will buy into 'trust' computing, and anyone without a valid certificate (i.e. any open source OS...i.e. Linux) won't get access.

BTW I think M$ have dropped the database file system idea, as it was crud. Good idea though 🙂

planetsim

Im not sure if its going to happen but im not too keen on getting LongHorn when it comes out and will stay with XP or even thinking of going back to Win2K. Anyway.

Not sure if this is true or not, but if it is i expect an increase in computer sales.

Longhorn is expected to change the beloved BLUE screen of death to a RED screen of death.

Now with the blue screen i know a couple of people who have done something that involves the need to buy a new PC. The red screen is just gonna increase the need for users to go out and buy another one.

I havent actually seen much in Longhorn but it just seems that M$ is moving more graphical than actual security within the operating system now that scares me.