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Longhorn beta now due in June
Feb 07 2005-Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing a beta of their next operating system, Longhorn, in June. This release will mainly be for developers, but there's nothing to keep us from taking it for a spin or twelve.
"There will be a beta 1 of Longhorn and it's happening in the first half of this year," John Montgomery, a director in Microsoft's developer division, said during an interview at VSLive, a conference devoted to the company's Visual Studio .Net toolkit. This release will be primarily aimed at developers, Montgomery said. "I do, however, expect that you will find IT departments starting to look at it, kick the tires, trying figure out what's in it and what's not in it."
Microsoft has not really confirmed what will be in the beta, but they are targeting making it easier to use, manage and be more reliable. The new windows file system, WinFS, has been delayed and is expected to be in beta when Longhorn ships. Check the links below for more Windows Longhorn related articles.
Related articles from other news sites:
Microsoft: Longhorn beta will arrive by June Microsoft is on track to release the first full test version of the next major Windows release by the end of June, a Microsoft executive told CNET News.com on Monday.
The company has said publicly that Beta 1 of Longhorn would arrive by the end of 2005, though internally, the company has been aiming for a release by midyear. The final version of Longhorn is slated for the second half of next year.
Microsoft gives developers a glimpse of Avalon Although the next version of Windows is still about two years from release, Microsoft on Friday offered developers an early look at the new graphics engine that will accompany it.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software powerhouse released what it calls a "community technology preview" of the Avalon presentation engine for Windows. It's not a full beta, or test, version, but rather an incomplete set of code that lets developers test certain features and pass along their thoughts to Microsoft.
Microsoft Web services plan targets Java Microsoft hopes to turn up the heat on its Java rivals with plans for new software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications.
The software, code-named Indigo, is the next generation of Microsoft's .Net Web services product. The company is expected to disclose more details at its Professional Developer's Conference in Los Angeles in October.
While Microsoft executives have offered scant information on Indigo, people familiar with the company's plans said the software takes direct aim at IBM, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, Oracle and other rivals that sell products based on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard.
Microsoft revamps its plans for Longhorn update Microsoft is shaking up its plans for the next version of Windows to get the software off the drawing board and into PCs by the end of 2006.
As expected, the company on Friday announced a new road map for Longhorn, its revision to Windows XP. The changes--removing some features and altering others--are designed to let the company have a test version of the software next year and a final release for desktops and notebooks by 2006. A server release is planned for 2007.
Longhorn goes to pieces Bill Gates' dream of an end-to-end search tool for corporate networks remains just that: a dream, at least until the end of the decade.
Advanced search features that Gates has termed the "Holy Grail" of Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, won't be fully in place until 2009, Bob Muglia, the senior vice president in charge of Windows server development, told CNET News.com.
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003 Well, welcome to the "Longhorn" PDC. We've been looking forward to this event for a long time. It was fantastic to see the response to this event. Of course, this is a year where most computer-related shows are a lot smaller than they were in the past, and so we weren't sure what to expect when we put up the sign-up for this PDC. We were amazed that this is actually a record PDC. We had more sign-ups than we've ever had for any PDC. So thanks for your response. It's great to see you all here.
When we picked the theme we didn't realize how apt it would be, that is, "Making the Connection," so I want to thank you for your patience in terms of all the travel problems that took place yesterday getting out here. I know there are still some people who will be filtering in over the course of the day because of those travel challenges.
Looking back, the PDC has really ushered in a lot of very important milestones. For example, the PDC in 1992 was really sort of the 32-bit PDC. The PDC in 1996 was the Internet PDC. The PDC in the year 2000 was the beginning of the idea of XML and Web services coming to the center; it was our .NET PDC and it really got that all going.
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