May 7, 2003

News.Com report from WinHEC.

• "Longhorn to arrive in 2005"
  
  
• "Company representatives at a WinHEC demonstration of a pre-beta version of Longhorn said that the goal is to be able to run the OS on screens with a resolution of 120 dots per inch or higher."
  
  
• "The Redmond, Wash.-based computing giant is working on future versions of its Windows operating system that will better interoperate with the telephone and other communications devices..."
  
  
• "Gates said that Windows devices in the future will likely come with a new navigational tool he called Xeel. Xeel is a series of navigation buttons, stacked vertically, that will execute commands when pushed in or when shifted toward one of four compass points."
  
  
• "By 2005, hard drives will hold up to 500GB of data, while 568GB to 1-terabyte PCs will hit the market in 2007, Gates said."

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