Microsoft added a few more videos, each of them offering a detailed look at not only the new technologies but the potential applications for them. All of the presentations look at Avalon, Indigo, and other technologies to be featured in Longhorn.

Healthcare

Even as the industry overcomes basic administrative inefficiencies that consume 20 cents of every dollar spent on healthcare, solution providers see additional opportunities to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve care with software that spans the collaboration among all healthcare system stakeholders: patients, providers, payers, pharmaceutical companies, employers, and regulatory agencies. In this video, Carter Maslan demonstrates ways in which we hope Longhorn will bring platform support for the applications that span end-to-end clinical and business processes in healthcare.

Higher Education

The sharing of ideas is a central part of Higher Education. Longhorn makes it easier for ISVs and publishers to meet education objectives in community interaction, shared annotations, lifelong digital portfolios, licensed content, mobility, and digital media. In this concept video, Carter shows some early work with McGraw-Hill, as he steps through physics calculations to send a space probe to Saturn.

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Source : HardwareGeeks