Longhorn is beginning to look real nice in 3D. The top-of-the-line interface, code-named "Aero Glass," will have transparency and other advanced three-dimensional shading features, like drop shadows and animated transactions. (Notice on the photo the animation due to minimization of windows and the drop shadow effect that makes them look like they are one on top of the other) This will demand a high-end video card with at least 64MB of video memory, DirectX 9.0 support, AGP 4X for external graphics cards and a Longhorn graphics driver. The definitive place to visit for the latest information on Longhorn is Paul Thurrott's Winsupersite.

It's not really an OS news, but how about running Mac's Os X on your PC, on top of Windows XP? Believe it or not it's for real! However, don't get too much excited. For now it's horrible slow and very unstable to be put to real usage. It's called PearPC, and you can check all the info and download it on the sourceforge page. With the promise of running better and faster in the future, the actual version emulates a G3 chip minus its AltiVec extension and supports Mandrake Linux and Darwin.A great discuss on the topic is going on at Neowin, but the best place to discuss it is at Emaculation.

My best wishes of great success as to go to MorphOS. It originally started in 1995 as a plan to migrate the marvelous, fantastic, brilliant and revolutionary for the time AmigaOS to PowerPC but eventually ‘morphed’ into an entire Operating System in it’s own right which includes compatibility with Amiga applications. It aims PowerPC RISC microprocessors which runs on the Pegasos boxes and PowerUP expansion cards for the Amiga. In the future MorphOS will also run on other Open Firmware based PowerPC machines and possibly some PowerPC based Apple Macintosh computers as well. As before with AmigaOS, the idea now is to create a genuinely NEW and thus truly modern, highly advanced operating system. Go check it out.

Last, but not least, have you ever heard about Linux? Sure you did. But I guess you always thought to yourself: too much trouble to install and I am not willing to go messing around with my HDisk.Well I have a solution for you. Only 1 CD burning, 3 minutes to boot (almost a no installation) and you are running Linux from the CD without touching your precious HDisk, with OpenOffice and net connection. Cool, isn't it? I sure would like to see Windows XP do that... Although there are a couple of packages out there to do this, I prefer Mandrake Move.Give it a try. It's free.