News.com have some preview images of a Longhorn demo to the press. Doesn’t look that spectacular or eye catching, but visual improvements are promised, such as translucent windows, and document icons that show a preview of the content of the actual document or file.
Microsoft preview Longhorn to the press
Microsoft have started to preview Longhorn, the next major Windows release, to members of the press.
No sight of the WinFS revamped file system, but some of the new features sound like they will improve usability, for example, the file finder, which helps you find the last file you edited, based on content keywords, author name etc.
Comparison are also being made against the next version of Mac OS X which is due to be released in 2 weeks time. Longhorn isn’t due to possibly next year.
IIS installations still declining
IIS reached it’s maximum number of website installations at around 35% of total websites in 2002, but has been declining ever since.
Apache HTTPD on the otherhand has a continuously increasing number of servers, currently around 75% of all installed servers, at approx 43 million.
Swapping motherboads: XP verses Linux
I recently had the painful experience of swapping motherboards in an XP machine. Read my notes on what it took to get XP running again (compared to the 3 minutes it took to boot Linux).