Longhorn and XBox to play together
C|Net | at | by Mike
A larger part of that strategy will emerge with the company's next iteration of the Windows operating system. Code-named Longhorn, the software will include a new search-and-storage system intended to make it easier to find any digital content stored on individual PCs or across a network.
The exact role that Longhorn will play on the Xbox is unclear, but Microsoft is expected to revise its software so that the game console can be linked into a larger home network, in what Microsoft terms the "Longhorn time frame" of 2005 or 2006. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told CNET News.com recently that "every group at Microsoft is talking about the Longhorn wave."