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I've been spending a lot of time near Vista over the past two weeks.
 
The new shell is nice.
 
IE7 is nice.
 
Glass is nice.
 
Transactional/indexed file system: priceless.
Posted Sep 09 2005, 03:10 AM by don-box

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Least Privileged User wrote re: I Want Vista
on 09-09-2005 4:33 AM
"Maybe this thing isn't a train wreck after all." - Paul Thurott
Josh wrote re: I Want Vista
on 09-09-2005 4:55 AM
I just read in VSJ magazine that WinFS is not making it into Vista? so... isn't it WinFS that gives you the transactional/indexed file system?
Sahil Malik wrote re: I Want Vista
on 09-09-2005 6:30 AM
Man I am so excited about the transactional file system.

One other thing I'd like to see is "Who is locking my dll" rather than "This file is in use by another process".

I know it may not have much to do with TxFs but still :)

BTW, dude you are awesome.
Don Box wrote re: I Want Vista
on 09-09-2005 11:02 AM
Josh,

Vista includes (and always has included) a kernel-mode transaction manager and TX support in both NTFS and the registry. All of this is integrated with DTC and System.Transactions. And of course, it just works with the standard Win32 FS calls and with System.IO. JimJohn and I gave a talk on this stuff at the last PDC, but it didn't get much attention.

WinFS is a separate system that runs in a user-mode process and gives you an Object-Oriented storage system. WinFS is not shipping with vista.

DB
Andreas Haeber wrote re: I Want Vista
on 09-10-2005 9:54 AM
Josh: See this blog for some examples of transactions used with NTFS: http://blogs.msdn.com/because%5Fwe%5Fcan/

Vista sure has a lot of interesting features :)
Keith Patrick wrote re: I Want Vista
on 09-10-2005 1:42 PM
Are you excited about the current shell or the upcoming animated one? That's the piece of Longhorn I'm most interested in and have the most questions about: is it an all-new .exe? How much of it is new code? Is it Avalon on top of GDI window like XP/WPF is? How radically different will it be from the beta Slate?
Donald Burnett wrote re: I Want Vista
on 09-11-2005 8:03 PM
Is the longhorn sidebar coming back to vista? I have been playing with google desktop and I think the sidebar concept would be cool if it were very configurable..

I would love to see a more configurable windows task manager that associates all processes in tree stuctures and provides more info on things like svchost's etc..

I will miss the new FS, I think it was a good move, and I am hoping it's a later add-on.
Arne Janning wrote re: I Want Vista
on 09-15-2005 9:09 AM
@Donald:

Yes, it seems that the sidebar will return, see:

http://www.winsupersite.com/files/pdc2005-change-world.wmv
Arne Janning wrote re: I Want Vista
on 09-15-2005 9:17 AM
Sorry wrong link, this is the right one:

http://www.winsupersite.com/files/pdc2005-sidebar.wmv

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