OT: Testing Longhorn

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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
 
Modem said:
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.
 
Longhorn is going to be made to be compatible with older hardware. Just
recently, I read that Longhorn will run on systems with 128MB of RAM, but
will looked stripped down of it's features.

Systems with 3.0 ghz and 512MB will get the bells and whistles of 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?
 
'Longhorn' has been in development for several years, during which time many
new technologies, like dual core processors, entered the market.

Modem Ani

BAR said:
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 said:
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.
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