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Longhorn’s Changes; Avalon: Not Just a Cool Thing, a Necessity

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Microsoft introduced the next version of Windows, code-named “Longhorn,” at its Professional Developers Conference this week in Los Angeles. Although Microsoft has leaked details of Longhorn before, the conference offered the first official look at many of the technologies coming when the operating system ships sometime in 2005 or 2006. Elsewhere: "Today was the 4th and final day of the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference in LA. If you were there, things were a lot quieter than previously. Most sessions had to do with creating software with all the new goodies." Read it here.
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Regarding Microsoft’s New CLI

  Submitted by Mick X Nobody Windows 55 Comments
In one of the most overlooked cool things at the PDC, the new Command Shell that will be in Longhorn blew me away when I saw it. I walked up to the booth asking if unix-like file aliases would be in the new shell, and was given a demo by the team that had my mind racing." Read the article at ASP.net.
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WinFS, WinFX and Managed Code in Longhorn

  Submitted by Brad Wardell Windows 33 Comments
"Today I'll talk about two of those technologies into more detail. Now, my understanding about the advantages of some of this is sketchy and incomplete since we are, after all, talking about an OS that won't ship for 3 years. Anyway, those two technologies are: WinFS and managed code in the form of the API called WinFX." Read the article by Stardock's Brad Wardell. Update: A reply.
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PDC 2003 Mini Round Up and Screenshots

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NeoWin put together lots of interesting links to videos, screenshots and articles of all the happenings in the PDC this week. In some of the screenshots and video you will see the new hardware accelerated Aero UI. Also, a demonstration of WinFS featured a method to "stack" documents by author in a window, with the heights of the stacks corresponding to the number of documents. Apple also works in something similar reportedly (Apple calls them "piles").
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Microsoft PDC News; Longhorn Details Emerge

  Submitted by Philip Alldredge Windows 106 Comments
At its Professional Developers Conference this week, Microsoft is taking the wraps off its Longhorn Windows, Yukon SQL Server and Whidbey tool suite. Check back here for news from the Los Angeles event. Articles here, here here, here (lots of good info about the new Longhorn features) and here. Longhorn SDK here, screenshots and video of Longhorn from today conference here, Longhorn Tweak Guide, special access to Longhorn/Whidbey PDC release code. Even more articles here, here and here.
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Microsoft Clears its Own XP SP2 Confusion

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Just three days after a Microsoft vice president--who is in charge of Microsoft.com and Windows Update--told thousands of delegates at a conference in Florida that Service Pack 2 for Windows XP would be available by the end of 2003, the company has effectively retracted the comments and said that customers will see only a beta version of SP2 this year. In the meantime, Microsoft debuts first Windows XP Security Pack.
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Bill Gates: ‘Longhorn is Going to be Late’

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Bill Gates yesterday confirmed that there is no official release date yet for the next version of Windows, named Longhorn. "Longhorn could be 2005 or 2006," Gates told a small group of journalists yesterday at the TechNet/MSDN seminar in The Hague. "This release is going to be driven by technology, not by a release date. Which probably means it is going to be late." In the meantime, tThe second Windows XP service pack will include a number of changes designed to allay security fears.
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