Many Users Are Unfazed by Scaled-Back Longhorn Plan

摘要

The next major Windows release, code-named Longhorn, is due to arrive so far into the future that many corporate users aren't particularly bothered by Microsoft Corp.'s plan to scale back the product. Prior to its late-August announcement, the company had pledged that Longhorn would feature three innovative new elements: the Avalon graphics subsystem, boasting special 3-D effects; the Indigo communications subsystem for building advanced Web services; and the WinFS storage subsystem, which aims to provide advanced data organization and management capabilities and make it easier to search for information.