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Microsoft Windows Longhorn

By all accounts, the next version of Windows will be a long time coming. Code-named Longhorn, the OS isn't due until sometime in 2006. Bits and pieces of the embryonic operating system have been leaking onto the Internet since the beginning of the year, however, and recently, Microsoft has started to divulge details of its "biggest bet" since Windows 95.

At a roundup in Los Angeles last week, the company handed out DVDs with an early version of Longhorn, and it detailed changes to the OS along with related programming tools such as Visual Studio and SQL Server. The goal was to corral developers behind Longhorn, but in the process, Microsoft also gave a solid glimpse at what's in store for the rest of us.

While it will be compatible with today's applications, Longhorn will change everything about the OS, from the way the desktop looks to how you store and retrieve files to how your PC is safeguarded. And it should provide the foundation for more-innovative Windows applications.

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Its certainly going to get interesting as the 64 bit systems start to take hold.I seen a few screenshots of longhorn which,at this point,didnt look much different other than the menu bar being on the right side of the screen.I read somewhere that there was another windows OS in the works called Anvil.I wonder whats happening there..

Does anyone know if linux is working on a 64 bit OS?

Here's a bunch of screen shots of the new Longhorn OS...
http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/longhorn/



64-bit Linux: Ready for prime time?http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/01/30FE64linux_1.html
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