Microsoft Reveals New Longhorn, Office 12 Features

[Quad Master]

Microsoft Reveals New Longhorn, Office 12 Features

MINNEAPOLIS—Longhorn Beta 1 is still a few weeks away from release. And Office 12 Beta 1 isn't slated to debut until this fall. But that isn't stopping Microsoft from peeling back the covers on some of the new features slated for the pair of products due to ship in the latter half of 2006.

Here at the annual worldwide partner conference on Friday, Microsoft showed off a new Longhorn feature, called Meeting Space, and what seems to be the InfoPath Forms Server expected to be part of the Office 12 family.

Microsoft Windows client executives put through its paces a recent pre-beta build of Longhorn, number 5086.

Microsoft distributed build 5086 to selected Technology Adoption Program partners last week, according to sources.

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[KingKrool]

I don;t believe a word MS says

"We will have a wonderful new FS called WinFS". Yeah right. (Anyway, Hans Reiser haad a lot to say about that)
"We will provide a new 3d desktop environment".
Well, now all that is scrapped, they are adding some stupid feature to make up for it.

 

[bosky101]

Key features mentioned they say are :

# launch applications 15 percent faster than Windows XP does
# boot PCs 50 percent faster than they boot currently and will allow PCs to resume from standby in two seconds
# allow users to patch systems with 50 percent fewer reboots required
# reduce the number of system images required by 50 percent
# enable companies to migrate users 75 percent faster than they can with existing versions of Windows.