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Longhorn to ship Fall 2006, maybe
by Jordan Running Jul 13th 2005 at 6:37AM
From the PR-fails-to-inspire-consumer-confidence department, according to InformationWeek Microsoft has announced that Longhorn (the next version of Windows) will be released in the fall of next year but that it could slip to the following year. Also, they announced that the developer edition will be available in September.
Is there a betting pool for Windows releases? I'm putting my money on January 2007.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Chris said 3:10AM on 7-14-2005
It looks like Apple will be shipping their next OS by then as well. Come on Microsoft. What's taking so long?
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Bo Yu said 6:18AM on 7-14-2005
Tisk tisk... All the more time for MS to drop more "features" from Longhorn. I have a feeling that by the time it gets shipped, it's gonna be officially renamed to XP Service Pack 3.
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travis said 4:03PM on 7-14-2005
Microsoft keeps backing up their Longhorn release right into Apple's Intel debut. If Microsoft isn't careful, I think they may have a MAJOR problem on their hands.
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