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Note: I thought I’d start a new little gimmick on my blog here - I’ve got a bunch of feature requests that I’d like the developers at Microsoft to take a look at, and I’m sure a lot of the other bloggers and visitors to this site do as well. I gave up on trying to think of a catchy...

I had the unfortunate experience of formatting my computer and reinstalling Windows XP over the last two days (reason was hardware related). After installing XP again, I thought of a couple things I would love to see in Longhorn. The first being no restarts during setup (I think the PDC build is already...

The second chapter of Karsten Januszewski's patterns and practices book entitled "Developer Guide to Migration and Interoperability in 'Longhorn'" has been posted on MSDN and is worth a read, especially for anyone brand new to what good things Longhorn will bring us! This chapter focuses on service-oriented...

As has been mentioned previously on LonghornBlogs , and on Scoble’s blog , Tony McCune published an article on ZDNet today that’s slightly unflattering for Longhorn. Ok, that’s a little inaccurate. It was more like he put Longhorn into a bag and proceeded to beat it with a stick. I...

Hi Everyone. I never had a blog before, so forgive me if I do it all wrong. I guess first I should introduce myself. My name is Edward, I'm 21 and I'm a developer at a small software company in the UK. I'm also attending a University course on Software Engineering. I'm actually still working mostly in...

Well, I'm at the PDC, of course, but that's not really the point. The point is that a new feature of the Longhorn OS could have told me that. Walking around the convention center, I've seen numerous demonstrations of a new service that will ship as part of Longhorn - the Location Awareness service (or...

Well this news is definitely excellent as far as I am concerned because I am unable to attend PDC and get a free copy of Longhorn. WinNetMag is reporting that Microsoft will make Longhorn pre-Beta 1 available for a small fee and also ship it for free to MSDN subscribers. I dont think this has ever happened...

Over at PDC Bloggers , there's a link to Yet Another Article About Longhorn and the PDC (YAAALP?) which covers the basics about the special PDC Build that will be available to attendees. It also has some information about some new management features that will apparently be built into Longhorn called...

Microsoft's senior vice president of the Windows client business group, Will Poole, delivered the last keynote on Friday and had these comments on Longhorn. He indicates the timeframe for Longhorn is 2005-2006...is this the first time a Microsoft executive has said 2006?

Hello! First of all a huge thanks to Robert McLaws for the site, my blog, and the introduction! I really like this site and I think its a wonderful idea, I am extremely happy to be a part of this growing community. So a quick introduction - my name is Mack Male; I am the Regional Leader for the Academic...