Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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Windows Vista 1013 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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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