I'm excited about Longhorn and Avalon in particular as that is
what I'm working on. I thought as one of my first posts here I'd
talk about the computer experience I personally see Avalon and
Longhorn enabling.  I don't know if anyone else out there
watches the CSI and CSI: Miami shows on television (presumably
someone else watches them or they would not continue to make the
show), they involve Crime Scene Investigators sifting through
evidence to find the bad people responsible for the crime. It
may not be the best TV show but my fiancé and I often enjoy
watching it trying to guess who the bad guy is. However the
thing that bugs me about that show (and a lot of other TV shows
and films) is the way they show computers working, the computers
on these shows have slick interfaces that flash up instant
results of a query including a driver's license image and other
related data, they offer 3D analysis of tire tread matching,
shoe print matching, DNA matching etc etc., even the login
screen is slick and inviting. N