Although Microsoft is looking to rope in Longhorn developers now, the company knows it's in for a long ride. The operating system is years away from being finished.
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Microsoft says a server version of Longhorn, the next release of Windows, is in the works. But the company hasn't set a firm ship date.
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Paul Thurrott has posted screenshots from the current Windows Longhorn Build
At its Professional Developers Conference, the company offers a long-awaited look at the Longhorn OS--which Chairman Bill Gates has described as Microsoft's biggest effort since Windows 95.
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Microsoft Group Vice President Jim Allchin talks--a little--about Windows beta releases and touts the next version of the company's tablet PC software.
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OnlyNewZ has posted a review on Windows Longhorn
Previews of Microsoft's forthcoming server-stack software reveal a company brooding over improving its security.
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Longhorn technical evangelist Jeremy Mazner offers some interesting tidbits on why Microsoft is including a new storage platform in its "Yukon" version of SQL Server and "Longhorn" version of Windows.
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Microsoft execs at last have admitted publicly, at last, that Longhorn will not ship in 2005. Does it matter?
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Will Poole, senior VP in charge of Windows client, outlined Microsoft's Windows client priorities for the coming year, and threw in a few Longhorn teases, to boot.
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Details are emerging about Microsoft Corp.'s plans for Longhorn, its forthcoming Windows operating system upgrade.
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The project to update and meld business management applications picked up through acquisitions will link the software to Longhorn, the next Windows release.
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One element of Longhorn that few have mentioned is the forthcoming natural-user-interface (NUI) foundation platform. Microsoft is working to find ways to add speech and other forms of "rich user interaction" to its next-generation Windows client and other forthcoming products, to boot.
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At its Professional Developers Conference next month, the software giant will detail a revamped graphics system and other features of the next release of Windows.
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Neowin's sources are claiming to have seen an internal Microsoft timetable for Longhorn client. According to their tipsters, Microsoft has pegged an August 15,2005, release-to-manufacturing date on the product.
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Microsoft executives from Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on down have long described Longhorn as the Redmond, Wash., company's most revolutionary operating system to date. The product was originally expected to ship next year. Then in May of this year, officials pushed back the release date to 2005. But now executives are declining to say when they expect the software to ship.
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After months of speculation, Microsoft plans to give developers their first hard look at the next version of Windows in October.
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Paul Thurrott has posted a gallery of UI prototypes of the "Aero" user interface in Longhorn
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Longhorn, the next major release of Windows, is "a bit scary," Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates confided to financial analysts last week. Scary to computer users, that is, because Longhorn products will be very different from today's Microsoft software, he said. But it appears the software is also causing some shivers at Microsoft.
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