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SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. is working on security technologies for the upcoming Longhorn release of Windows that will protect users against security threats by monitoring system and network behavior as well as the security patches that Microsoft has issued.

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Watch this episode of the .NET Show that focuses on how "Longhorn" was presented, and received, at the PDC. We talk with key Microsoft players in the Longhorn project as well as a diverse set of attendees of the PDC.

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The Malaysian government is making renewed efforts to combat software piracy, spurred into action by the recent appearance of pirated copies of Microsoft Corp.'s Longhorn operating system on sale for under M$10 (US$3) in the south of the country.

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Next up in the PDC keynote line up was SQL Server honcho Gord Mangione. Mangione showed off for the first time publicly the new Windows File System (WinFS) that will be at the heart of SQL Server "Yukon," as well as of the Longhorn Windows release.

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LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft Corp. let loose early bits of Longhorn at its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here and for the first time provided more extensive details around the key components of its next Windows operating system expected out in 2006.

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LOS ANGELES -- Proclaiming that the digital decade is just dawning, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Monday gave the first official peek at Longhorn, the next version of Windows expected out in 2006.Longhorn will be "the biggest release of this decade, the biggest since Windows 95," Gates said in his opening keynote at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles.

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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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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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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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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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