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Windows Longhorn Beta for June Release

Posted by Zonk on from the newer-shinier-and-with-horns dept.

An Anonymous Reader writes "According to CNET, the Windows Longhorn Beta 1 is supposedly set for release this June. The Register has commentary on the delays the new OS has faced." From the article: "Longhorn was originally supposed to ship in 2004. In May, this year release was pushed back to 2005. This week Longhorn's availability has been delayed even further, with Microsoft execs declining to say when exactly the operating system might ship, eWeek reports."

3 of 460 comments (clear)

  1. Hello? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's Longhorn? Bill Gates name for his...?

  2. ...please don't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If someone makes a Duke Nukem joke, I'm going to shoot myself.

  3. Re:Credibility by Gr8Apes · · Score: 5, Funny
    I believe they'll probably release something - the time line's too short to miss it by 4 years as they've done previously. Besides, they don't want the actual release of Tiger to have the limelight by itself, now, do they?

    Heck, Cairo was announced, what? 14 years ago? Longhorn was the new Cairo, now delayed to Blackcomb, as "Cairo" wasn't getting any more press. After all, "we're writing about Cairo again?

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