Longhorn beta coming in first half
ENT News | at | by Mike
Windows "Longhorn" Beta 1 is on track for availability in the first half of this year, a Microsoft official said last week.
The comment by John Montgomery, a director of Microsoft's developer division, in a ZDNet interview last week at the VSLive! conference was the first on-the-record comment of the year by a high-ranking Microsoft official pinning the beta release to the first half.
Technical previews of Longhorn have been floating around for more than a year, but Microsoft greatly reduced the focus of the operating system since the last of the previews.