The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > From the Desk of David Pogue: A Sneak Preview of the New Windows

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > From the Desk of David Pogue: A Sneak Preview of the New Windows: "Yesterday, Microsoft showed me a very, very early version of the next Windows (code-name: Longhorn). It's not even in its first beta-test version, so a lot could change, and the final version won't be available until the 2006 holiday season (that's right, it's a year and a half away). Even so, the version I saw is far ahead of the version that Microsoft demonstrated only a couple of weeks ago at the WinHEC conference. So considering that--oh, around 200 million people use Windows, I thought I'd share my impressions. "