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1. Bill Gates: 40 million Vista copies sold

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... and hardware engineers that Vista sales were “beyond our expectations” and outlined some key features of the upcoming Windows Home Server and the renamed Longhorn Windows Server 2008.   ...

2. Update: Windows Longhorn officially named Server 2008

   (Software/Software Features)

   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. Los Angeles (CA) - At this week's ...

3. Next Windows Server available for public beta testing

   (Software/Software Features)

   Microsoft has made its upcoming Windows Server, dubbed “Longhorn” available for beta testers.  Anyone with a Microsoft Live ID can download Longhorn Beta 3 and try out some of the new ...

4. Microsoft reduces feature set in pirated copies of Vista

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... for several years and that the company intends to use the technology first for Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn." Eventually, more Microsoft products will adopt this technology. Consumers who ...

5. WinFS back-burnering could spell death sentence for next-gen file system

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... component of Longhorn (Windows Server) or Vista. Like so many other Microsoft grails of varying grades of holiness, WinFS was left to sink or swim. When Google Desktop was introduced in October 2004, the ...

6. TechEd 2006: Longhorn's Terminal Services to run Office, Windows

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   At a demonstration of new features in the latest beta edition of Windows Server "Longhorn", Microsoft revealed that the new version of Terminal Services will enable client computers to run full applications ...

7. TechEd 2006: New Windows Server minimum installation fits on USB key

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   In a session Wednesday afternoon on ten classes of benefits administrators will see from Windows Server "Longhorn," Microsoft technical program manager Ward Ralston revealed that one installation option ...

8. TechEd 2006: Microsoft demonstrates first PowerShell release candidate

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... "Longhorn" server, although at present, Microsoft has no plans to ship it as a component of an operating system. Instead, it will make PowerShell available for free (as it does for the RC1 version presently) ...

9. TechEd 2006: Microsoft creates "Forefront" brand for security software

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... mention on Microsoft's roadmap out into the end of 2007, with regard to when "Longhorn" - the next generation Windows Server operating system - would be made available. Indeed, with features slated for ...

10. Microsoft announces Beta 2 of Vista, Office 2007 and Server

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 12) and Windows Server, code-named "Longhorn." Seattle (WA) - Speaking at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced the availability of the Beta 2 ...

11. Symantec: Microsoft misappropriated trade secrets to build virtualization tools

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and then used the information it gleaned from that code to create storage virtualization device drivers for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and forthcoming versions of Windows Vista and "Longhorn" Server. ...

12. Monad becomes 'PowerShell': Next-gen Windows command line to ship in Q4

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... installation disks of Windows Vista, as well as "Longhorn" server (whose own name is expected to be unveiled soon as "Windows Server 2007"). But Muglia is expected to reveal today that, as Microsoft slowly ...

13. Microsoft divisional realignment boosts Windows Live, bolsters Ozzie

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... "Longhorn." The Online Business Group will inherit what remains of the MSN brand name, including the MSN ISP (which some analysts predict could eventually cease to exist), the MSN.com family of Web sites, ...

14. Windows Server Longhorn preview event to proceed as scheduled

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... The release timetable for Longhorn, as the company's next edition of Windows Server is still being called, has always been fuzzier than for Vista, the client edition of Windows upon whose schedule so many ...

15. Six versions of Windows Vista, as Microsoft subdivides home, business tiers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... versions will be available in the second half of 2006. Its new server editions, which still go by the beta moniker "Longhorn," continue to wait for 2007.  ...

16. New image-based OS deployment premieres with Vista Enterprise CTP

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... images, and deploy them using a new remote installation environment, using a new software feature of the upcoming "Longhorn" edition of Windows Server, called the Windows Deployment Service. This service ...

17. Microsoft updates plans for 64-bit computing

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... today. The server version of Microsoft's Longhorn operating system will come in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, but Release 2 of Longhorn, scheduled for 2009, will be 64-bit only, said Bob Muglia, senior ...

18. Microsoft details more Vista features for IT

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... code-named Longhorn, is available to Technical Beta Program participants. One newly detailed client feature that's expected to appeal to corporate I.T. shops is User Account Protection, which will enable ...

19. Windows Vista, Server and IE 7 betas to arrive in synch

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Microsoft confirmed to internetnews.com that it will deliver the beta 1 version of Longhorn Server on August 3, along with the beta 1 release Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft confirmed to internetnews.com ...

20. Longhorn Server beta expected August

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The first beta of Longhorn Server looks like it will hit in early August, according to comments made earlier this week by Microsoft during an online chat session. The first beta of Longhorn Server ...

21. Microsoft to ship 32-bit version of Longhorn server

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Microsoft plans to ship 32-bit, x64 and Itanium versions of its Longhorn server operating system, company executives said yesterday. Microsoft plans to ship 32-bit, x64 and Itanium versions of ...

22. Microsoft releases Avalon, Indigo previews

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... 2003 before the end of March. Avalon and Indigo are two of Longhorn's "fundamentals:" Avalon is the presentation subsystem for Longhorn and Indigo is Microsoft's next-generation platform for Web services. ...

23. Microsoft readies burst of 2005 products

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... lengthy and according to Steven Bink, who runs website bink.nu, the list is based both on facts and on assumptions. Highlights include Antivirus and Antispyware 2005, Longhorn Server beta one and the client ...

24. Microsoft updates Windows Server roadmap: No WinFS for you

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... that WinFS, the long-awaited storage engine originally scheduled for release with Longhorn, will no longer be included with either Longhorn or Longhorn Server, the latter of which is due in 2007. Read ...

25. Microsoft schedules second Longhorn event

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Microsoft has set a date for a second Longhorn-themed Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Microsoft has set a date for a second Longhorn-themed Professional Developers Conference (PDC). ...

26. Microsoft eyes lighter versions of Longhorn

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... tasks, in a move that could reduce maintenance costs for customers and create products that are less vulnerable to attack. The new "role-based" products may appear in 2007, when the server version of Longhorn ...

27. Microsoft strips Longhorn of WinFS

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Microsoft reportedly intends to ship Longhorn, its next version of Windows operating system, without WinFS, the next-generation file system. Microsoft reportedly intends to ship Longhorn, its ...

28. Longhorn on hold until 2006

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Microsoft will not broadly release its long-awaited update to the flagship Windows operating system, dubbed "Longhorn," until 2006. Microsoft will not broadly release its long-awaited update to ...

29. Longhorn's loss may be some users' gain

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Microsoft retreat from its Longhorn ambitions and its decision to add several Longhorn technologies to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 may rob the next Windows release of its glamor, but users ...

30. Microsoft rolls out five-year server roadmap

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Microsoft Thursday for the first time announced the timeframe for shipment of its Longhorn Server and unveiled a partial list of its capabilities as part of a five-year roadmap that includes a plan ...

31. Hello WinXP SE: Microsoft reshuffles roadmaps, again

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... Andrew Orlowski writes.This buys more time for the Longhorn team to complete the complex task of implementing a native database file store, which Jon Honeyball first revealed to the world at The Register ...