Re: [Dev-C++] Offtopic: Advice on GUI to learn

[Michael C U. <mu...@cb...>]

I also don't think we are going to see a mass migration to Longhorn
either. Longhorn is going to require some truly serious hardware to
deliver acceptable performance. Microsoft has estimated that that by the
time we see Longhorn, new PCs will have a dual core processor running at
least 6 Ghz, a terabyte of hard disk space, at least 2 Gb of RAM, and a
very powerful 3D graphics accelerator. If that's any indication about the
mimimum hardware requirements Longhorn is going to need, it's going to be
a tough sell to businesses and such who aren't always on the cutting edge
of the technology curve. After all, remember that something like 30% of
Windows users are still using Windows 98.

Mike

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Michael C Urban wrote:

> As far as Longhorn, the latest word is that we won't see it until 2006, or
> maybe even 2007. So the Win32 API is going to be the main API for Windows
> for at least a few more years.