Longhorn: The ultimate tool of social networks?

Microsoft watch ArticleMore than 10 members, including Lili Cheng, from the social-computing team of Microsoft Research Institute, have quietly moved to the existing Windows user experience Department and will be involved in designing the next-generation Microsoft operating system longhorn.

Lili Cheng is the main designer of Microsoft's social network service wallop. Microsoft's personnel transfer apparently aims to add more social attributes to longhorn, allows users to communicate with each other. In the future Longhorn's "Aero" interface, it is likely to integrate social network functions similar to wallop, and support technologies such as RSS, tags, and attention. xml. At that time, what we shared with other users was not just files. All our information, experience, and knowledge will have the opportunity to become shared content.

However, in Longhorn 5048 disclosed on winhec a week ago, we have not seen any related functions. If Microsoft plans to add social functions to the next generation of windows, the Longhorn release date may be delayed.

In any case, it would be exciting to use the operating system itself to complete network social activities that are currently accessible to websites through browsers. The Internet has become part of the operating system, not the other world that can only be accessed through a browser. Does the legendary Web 3.0 eventually look like this?