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MicrosoftWatch has published an article on Windows Longhorn



Will Poole, the recently appointed head of Microsoft's Windows client business, has a tough couple of years ahead of him.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and other top Microsoft brass have been doling out tantalizing bits on Longhorn for the past year. They have shown private demonstrations of the next Windows desktop to hardware partners, software partners, top customers and the volunteer Most Valuable Professional squad. A few builds of the product - including 4008, which debuted on the Web this weekend - have escaped the company's hallowed halls. People who have seen Longhorn are excited by it and want it.

So what's the problem? The estimated 2,000 developers building it probably won't be done until 2005, according to the most recent estimates of some of my sources.
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