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Microsoft is to be built round the successor of Windows XP, Longhorn, from fixed 'building blocks' on. As can there simpler other varitions of the operating system brought out become for a fraction of the price. Present for instance a serverversie of Windows XP is yet a standard Windows XP-system with single adaptations.

, Can there simpler and cheaper Windows-versions made become for other countries, other scores and other hardware components by the 'building block method', that Microsoft of Apple copied. Pc's become through that cheaper and softwarepatches its less often necessary, late OEM-boss Mark Myers shine through in an interview with CNet.

Longhorn, the newest version of Windows XP, and now yet in abundance in development, and must in 2005 on the market come. The system knows a new garlic-and-feel, a new raise system for data and better graphic surroundings, with that the fight entering into with Mac OS X.

From Longhorn, pc-manufacturers will get precisely the same version of Microsoft aangeleverd as consumers. Until Windows XP got manufacturers a something other version of Windows XP that more agreements wanted to become with the hardware and visual adaptations of the OEM-supplier wanted to undergo. Microsoft finds differ this now too expensive and comes yet but withsingle version.

The 'building block method' in Longhorn is very simple of intention. More than 95 per cents of all positions of the system sit raised in a Longhorn-basis software core. Must there a Dutch version of Longhorn made become, is stuck then there only necessary a Dutch taalmodule at the software core to become. That same counts for other expansions of the system, as use on a Tablet PC or a Media Center-pc. All building blocks are kept together by the Multi-Lingual User Interface (MUI), a new low in the Windows-system. The blocks self can become also separate gepgrade. Microsoft has for that reason the Component Management Interface (CMI) considered, a child 'Add/Remove Software' -part in Longhorn that for instance an user in state puts a computer with single clicks in someone else language to set.

Currently Microsoft brings four versions from of Windows XP: Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Tablet PC and Windows XP Media Center. Furthermore there are availed yet variants for 64-work stations and Windows-versions for 'embedded' systems.