I just sat through a short talk from Jim Allchin, group vice president of Microsoft Corp.’s Platforms Group. He announced some changes to the Longhorn plan that have a lot of people excited. There is also a press release with the same message.
The main points that he conveyed:
- Microsoft will accelerate the Longhorn release to be available in 2006. This includes having it in retail stores by the Holidays.
- Parts of Longhorn (Indigo, Avalon) will be available to Windows XP at sometime in that timeframe. From what I could gather, it appears that not all of the original Longhorn features will make it down to these O/S's, but it will guarantee a much longer lifetime for them.
3:58:21 PM 
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