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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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Microsoft plans to give developers their "first close look" at hardware requirements needed to run the next version of Windows at a conference in May.
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MSDN has released a new chapter of Introducing "Longhorn" for Developers
Microsoft Corp. is hard at work to make "Longhorn," the next iteration of its Windows Server product, do more for less by integrating various server software systems.
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Newly hatched 'Graw Group' is developing social-networking software and Web services for .Net and Longhorn.
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MSDN has updated the Developer Guide to Migration and Interoperability in "Longhorn"
MSDN has posted a new Windows Longhorn article about creating your first realistic sidebar tile
Tom's Hardware Guide has posted an article on the WinFS file system
In this episode of the .NET Show, we will provide a general overview of the larger technology "pillars" of Longhorn,introducing you to their concepts, as well as showing you some of the coding techniques for gaining access to them.
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LONDON--As Microsoft prepares developers and independent software vendors for Longhorn, the next version of its Windows operating system, the company wants to wean them off older Windows programming models.
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MSDN has published chapter 4 of Introducing "Longhorn" for Developers
MSDN has posted an article on the WinFS file storage system
Even though Longhorn is still at least two years away, Microsoft already is soliciting feedback from beta testers on what it should name the subsystems within the product.
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Brent Rector dives into the "Longhorn" declarative markup language, XAML, and shows how to use a wide variety of UI objects provided by the "Longhorn" platform.
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Quentin Clark provides an overview of WinFS, including what benefits it will produce, what it is, and how it's put together.
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OSNews has posted a quick review on the Internet Explorer build that comes with Windows Longhorn 4051
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 IT advisory firm expects the operating system to be released between late 2006 and mid-2008, but that the release could be delayed even more.
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Windows-Help.NET has published a review on the PDC build of Windows Longhorn
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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eWeek has posted a Q&A session with Bill Gates
The Windows Longhorn Client Preview is now available for MSDN Universal, Enterprise, Professional, and Operating Systems subscribers
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OSNews has posted a review on Windows Longhorn Build 4051
ZDNet has published an article on Longhorn
Next L3vel has posted a review on Windows Lognhorn
ExtremeTech has posted a review on the PDC Version of Windows Longhorn
Call it the revenge of the Windows client -- or the revelation of Microsoft's three new technology pillars.
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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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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
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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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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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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