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• February 11, 2005 •
Microsoft is targeting a June release for Beta 1 of Longhorn, the next major Windows client release. That news came from John Montgomery, a director in Microsoft's developer division, during an interview taken at the VSLive conference in San Francisco.
An early version might also be made available at the WinHEC 2005 (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference), which is held from April 25-27 in Seattle. Last year, build 4074 was made available at WinHEC 2004, but since then, changes to Longhorn have been announced by Microsoft affecting the core of the Operating System.
Last August Microsoft announced that the presentation engine called Avelon and Web services architecture called Indigo were being removed from the Longhorn release, so they can be offered to both the current (Windows XP & Windows Server 2003) and future (Longhorn) Windows Operating System.
As I reported last year September, another component of Longhorn, WinFS, the new Windows storage subsystem, has been delayed past Longhorn's release date. WinFS will be added to Longhorn at a later date, although it's unclear when.
So we can at least expect the first Longhorn Beta this year, and get a first look at Longhorn in its current form.
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