It's a mixed bag, with some welcoming the early arrival of key features and others unhappy with the fragmenting of Windows.
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Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it will sacrifice some key advances it had planned for Longhorn so it can deliver the successor to Windows XP in 2006.
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About 70 workers may be on Longhorn for the long haul as the software giant works up its next version of Windows.
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Extreme Tech has posted a preview on the Windows Graphics Foundation (WGF) architecture
BANGALORE, INDIA -- Microsoft Corp. denied Thursday that core development work for Longhorn, its next version of the Windows operating system, was being done by contractors in India. Earlier this week, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech) in Seattle said that it had learned from Microsoft's internal documents that the Redmond, Washington, company was outsourcing core development of Longhorn to Indian contractors.
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MSDN has published a white paper on the Longhorn Network Location Awareness Service
REDMOND, WASHINGTON - The first beta test version of Microsoft Corp.'s next major Windows client release, code-named Longhorn, probably won't be available until the second half of next year, which would represent another delay for the much-anticipated beta.
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Organization says documents contradict industry claims that offshore outsourcing will be limited to low-level tasks.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese unit of Microsoft Corp. said on Monday the company's next-generation operating system, Longhorn, would be compatible with HD DVD, an advanced form of DVD technology.
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U.S. antitrust enforcers have started to track Microsoft Corp.'s development work on Longhorn, the successor to Windows XP, in a move to ensure that the vendor won't violate the final judgment in the government's antitrust case.
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Fujitsu Ltd. is set to announce next week that it will offer the next major version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows OS on high-performance servers, according to a report in the Thursday morning edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper.
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CNET News has posted an interview with Microsoft's Bob Muglia about Windows Longhorn Server
WinFS Store Spy is an Explorer-like tool to browse WinFS. It offers flexible ways for you to quickly find your stuff and navigate the store. You can inspect Item, Relationship (all 3 types), Extension, Nested Element, and MultiSet properties.
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While Microsoft has been beating the Longhorn drum at recent events, at Tech Ed next week the vendor will concentrate on current and soon-to-be-launched products, and will have little to say about the next major Windows release expected in 2006.
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Microsoft Corp. officials, in spelling out the road map for Windows Server, last week clarified the company's position on how close the server version of "Longhorn" will ship after the client.
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Microsoft's group vice president of platforms says he sees the adoption of 64-bit computing moving 'pretty rapidly.'
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Some much-hyped features of Microsoft's next major release of Windows are being cut back, while others may debut ahead of schedule, CNET News.com has learned.
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The software maker says a Windows server update is due later next year and that the server version of Longhorn is on tap for 2007.
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Dave Massey explains why the Community Technical Preview of Longhorn has been released and how the teams have progressed since the PDC with the next version of the client operating system.
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Microsoft exec says the company working to ship client, server versions of Windows 'Longhorn' close together.
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ExtremeTech has published an in-depth preview on Windows Longhorn
At WinHEC, Microsoft talked up the potential of 64-bit for forthcoming Windows Server products. And developers filled in the blanks regarding what Microsoft wouldn't say.
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In response to feedback from partners and customers, Microsoft is working to make it easier for software makers to write compatible applications for its Next Generation Secure Computing Base security technology, code-named Palladium.
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Chris123NT has published a Windows Longhorn Build 4074 tweaking guide
PCMag has published a preview on Windows Longhorn Build 4072
The next version of Windows will sport some fancy three-dimensional graphics, but for those with an older video card, Longhorn will look a lot like Windows 2000.
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Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows has posted screenshots from Windows Longhorn Build 4074
Microsoft Corp. plans to release versions of its next major operating system release, code-named Longhorn, for Itanium and 64-bit extended systems as well as a 32-bit edition, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
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With the next version of Windows, the software giant is looking to add a number of laptop-specific features designed to make portable machines more powerful.
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The Longhorn Community Technical Preview is now available at MSDN subscriber downloads
A planned security architecture for Longhorn hasn't fallen into place, but elements will make their way into the new OS.
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SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. has synchronized development efforts for the client and server versions of Longhorn, the code name for the next Windows release, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday.
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Microsoft is on tap to distribute an alpha Longhorn build and reveal an updated Windows client roadmap at next week's show.
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Microsoft had been expected to deliver its first true alpha build at the Windows Hardware Engineering (WinHEC) conference next week. But those ever-resourceful folks over at Neowin seem to have unearthed a copy of Build 4074 a few days early.
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Getting users, programmers, and the programs they run to live happily in a least privileged environment is going to significantly increase the security of the Windows platform.
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Chris Sells explores the five major element families of Avalon as he builds the next piece of his Longhorn based Solitaire application.
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Microsoft blogger Jeremy Mazner has more on last week's stories on how Microsoft is fine-tuning Longhorn to try to get it out the door.
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The Microsoft Windows Server team is soliciting feedback on the features users want to see in future versions of Windows Server, including the forthcoming Longhorn Server.
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It's aiming to release the Windows update by the first half of 2006--which means scaling back some of its more ambitious plans for features.
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Learn some of the architectural concepts of WinFS, how programmers and users will interact with information on their systems, and how to code against this new file system in order to easily work with information.
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Efforts to shore up security on Windows XP pull developers away from the update effort, setting back the release, and probably causing some planned features to be cut.
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Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Monday pointed to 2006 as the release year for the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn.
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MSDN has published another article on WinFS
MSDN has published chapter 6 of their Introducing "Longhorn" for Developers series
Microsoft is looking at delivering "incremental value" as customers await their rollouts, senior vice president Bob Muglia says.
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MSDN has published an overview on the New Windows File System
MSDN has published an article on the "Avalon" Input System
Internetnews has published an article on Windows Longhorn's Security Lockdown
In this episode of the .NET Show, we're going to take and start diving into Longhorn. In the last episode we gave you an overview; now we're going to take and hit the pillars one at a time. In this first episode we're going to talk about Indigo.
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