Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

Erik Andersen
2003-10-29T22:42:33Z

On Wed Oct 29, 2003 at 11:50:46AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> They are building in support for transactions into the OS.
>
> Everything will be in XML. (It is not so important what format it is
> in, as it is that they are going to do it in one format.)
>
> Support for browsing versions in the FS.
>

s/seems to be doing right/might eventually get right after
it is released in 2006 and after you apply sp1 + sp2 + sp3
which will probably be released around Q3 2007/

:-)

> Support for browsing and querying XML their unified format. Ok, so SQL
> sucks, but this is still better than what we offer today in Linux.

Linux today vs an MS vaporware press release is not exactly a
fair comparison. Based on their release schedule, it looks like
we have a couple of years yet before anything materializes from
the folk in Redmond.

-Erik

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