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April 22, 2004 | Comments: (0)
Microsoft to refresh Longhorn beta at WinHEC
In its ongoing campaign to keep Longhorn front of mind for developers, Microsoft at its WinHec conference next month will release a "refreshed" version of the pre-beta code it handed out at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) last October.
No word yet on exactly what improvements the company will make to this version, which will only be handed out to conference attendees. The first pre-beta release, also only given out to show attendees, was meant to give programmers their first look at the products and something they could start to build applications against.
The finished version of Longhorn, according to company officials, has been pushed back from the second half of 2005 to sometime in 2006. Even then, some observers believe what gets delivered then is a scaled back version of what was originally promised, particularly the WinFS file system.
Some folks are ruminating recently that the company now will not be able to deliver everything it originally promised with Longhorn until the middle of 2007.
-- Ed Scanell (posted by Tom Sullivan)
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 22, 2004 07:36 AM
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