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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