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• Longhorn - next gen Windows goes 3D
  Tuesday 16 April 2002 – 07:15
  At WinHEC details are emerging of the graphics infrastructure for Longhorn, Microsoft's next generation Windows.
• Windows Server Longhorn preview event to proceed as scheduled
  Wednesday 22 March 2006 – 11:35
  Giving an indication that yesterday's stunning delay of Windows Vista would not impact the plans of the server division, posters to Microsoft's internal developers' blogs revealed more details today about a software design review (SDR) event to be held at a hotel in Bellevue on 11 April.
• Longhorn beta to have near-complete Indigo
  Monday 18 July 2005 – 06:56
  Microsoft's first beta of Longhorn will include a nearly complete version of the product's web services-based communication framework, code-named Indigo.
• Longhorn may blend Tablet PC, Media Center
  Thursday 13 January 2005 – 05:12
  Microsoft plans to drop the "Home" and "Pro" tags with the next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and is looking at shipping a single product that includes the features found in today's Windows XP Media Center and Tablet PC editions.
• Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on Longhorn
  Thursday 20 November 2003 – 10:54
  Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s executive vice president of software, took time after his quarterly Town Hall in San Francisco to sit down with eWEEK Contributing Editor Steve Gillmor in a conversation about Microsoft Corp.'s Longhorn Wave and the market challenges and opportunities it may present for Sun.

• Longhorn's Secret Modder Surprises*
  Monday 11 July 2005 – 06:00
  Tired of all the hype about the next Windows OS, code-named Longhorn? After reading about these two lesser-known features, you won't be! Analyst Rob Enderle uncovers some winning features coming to a Windows near you.
• Update: Windows Longhorn officially named Server 2008*
  Thursday 17 May 2007 – 01:43
  AMD At this week's WinHEC conference, Microsoft gave the official title of Windows Server 2008 to its next major platform, which was previously codenamed Longhorn. ...
• The WinFS File System For Windows Longhorn: Faster & Smarter*
  Tuesday 17 June 2003 – 07:00
  Microsoft is breaking new ground with Longhorn, successor to XP. The upcoming WinFS file system will be the first to be context-dependent, and promises to make long search times and wasted memory a thing of the past. Today, THG compares it to FAT and NTFS.