In a post on Mary Jo Foley's Microsoft Watch website, she has a report of how Microsoft has revealed some of the performance metrics they are targeting for Longhorn.
Some of the specifics are listed below, with the full text at the site referenced above.
If these targets are met, wow!
Some of the specifics are listed below, with the full text at the site referenced above.
If these targets are met, wow!
- 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.
- Allow administrators to install Longhorn on new systems in 15 minutes.
- provide a single, common scanning tool that will allow Longhorn users to check on their patch state.
- The Windows client team also is working on improving Longhorn's patch discovery and reporting capabilities, and is planning on enabling patches to be applied directly to the aforementioned system images.
- Longhorn will allow users to customize the help system with their own annotations; provide new "guided recovery" help for "unbootable" systems; and deliver improved, proactive diagnostics for things such as hard-drive failure, battery-life and other performance-related features, she said.
On the security front, Longhorn will deliver more than a dozen new security enhancements, including everything from Network Access Protection quarantining and browser lock-down, to protected user accounts and anti-malware protection, over the past couple of years.