here. i got the dates.. :

Milestone 9 (platform complete) - 16th March 2005
Beta 1 - 25th May 2005
Beta 2 - 12th October 2005
Release Candidate 0 - 22nd February 2006
Release Candidate 1 - 12th April 2006
Release To Manufacturing - 24th May 2006

i really cant wait.

i didn't know it was coming out THAT early. i read some big article on it in maximum pc or some other pc magazine, and it looked really cool.

what...is it?

microsofts new operating system.

Yea but they don't have WinFS so that's gonna be a bummer. They wasted too much time with SP2 in my opinion. Not that SP2 is a bad thing, but WinFS would have been nice.

i dont feel like waiting

if i know microsoft: this is too early.

they'll release it, and then they'll find tons and tons of bugs, and people with longhorn will pay extra money to fix the problem left my microsoft.

the day microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums.

Okay im good with Windows XP... I found some screenshots!

I hate it!http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/longhorn/

god that does suck.

is it me, or do they get progessivley worse?

so that 2 more versions later all you can do with your computer is view pictures, surf the web, play music and movies, and type some things in the cheapest thing (word pad)

ok, thanks, thats what i thought, but the name through me off. any particular reason its called longhorn? and am i the only one who cant hear that word without immediately thinking of texas?

I don't plan on getting a windows longhorn box. By then, I'll be happily running some distro of linux.

well.. ima start saving now. lol

what? what happened to winfs? did they took it out?
wow. if they take it out.. it's going to be windowsxp.. then i'm going to get a mac instead then..

hah , you guys are even lucky to have win xp .. i'm still stuck on windows ME ... lmao ..

long horn is a code name.
there are a series of mountains (ski ones) and such in real life
and the code name for windows XP was one,
Longhorn is the name of a restraunt that's between the two mountains,
and then i guess the next will be the next mountain.

i read it in pc world or something a long time ago

yea, here's an article on it

http://www.bigbrews.com/Vancouver%20Sun%2007-18-2003.pdf

adobe PDF

ummm i have windows 98

i have a computer with windows 95.

i don't use it tho...

it's faster than my XP one tho.

i have xp on the laptop but i dont think it has internet anymore

longhorn looks pretty cool. knowing my luck, someone is gonna come up to me and say "hey have a copy of windows longhorn" so i dont really have to save money for it.. i only need to save money for more ram and a better processor.