Windows' next version

October 27, 2003

Where Is Windows Going? (www.pcmag.com)

Longhorn promises dramatic changes to Windows' user interface. The new UI, code-named Aero, is designed to exploit true 3-D capabilities and to provide dramatically enhanced scaling, translucency, and animation. In Aero, each application can behave as if it owns the entire display canvas, when in fact multiple canvases can be overlapped, scaled, and warped by Longhorn's Desktop Compositing Engine to produce the final monitor output. This will allow the OS to perform tricks such as handling window minimization by progressively shrinking a window to a thumbnail with its contents shrunk but intact.

This is from a long article in PC Magazine on "Longhorn," the codename for the next version of Windows, which may not ship until 2006. mjh
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