Longhorn is built around three major advances - a new graphics and presentation engine known as Avalon, a new communications architecture known as Indigo, and a new file system known as WinFS that borrows from Microsoft's relational database...
The operating system features three major upgrades - a new graphics and presentation engine known as Avalon, a new communications architecture called Indigo and a new file system known as WinFS. Microsoft said it will unveil the hardware...
Longhorn was originally supposed to have three major changes: a new file system, WinFS; a new graphics and presentation engine known as Avalon; and Indigo, a web services and communication architecture.
Avalon was originally envisioned as a core feature of Longhorn, the next version of Windows. But, he said, developers wanted the support for older operating systems because it means they can write programs for Avalon that can be used by existing...
Two of the components - a presentation engine called Avalon and a web services architecture called Indigo - are being pulled out of the next Windows release so they can be offered for both Longhorn and the current generation of Windows operating...
Microsoft's forthcoming Longhorn version of the Windows operating system, which has a graphics engine called Avalon that's considered a major contender, despite being late, while Adobe hasn't had a hand in the game until its Macromedia acquisition.
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