Microsoft to distribute new Longhorn build at WinHEC
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Microsoft confirmed this week that it will issue a refreshed technical preview build of Longhorn at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2005 trade show in April. The preview will be the first public build of Longhorn in a year, and a lot has changed, internally, since Microsoft moved Longhorn to a new component-based structure that will make the system easier to install and modify. Given Longhorn's schedule (available on the SuperSite for Windows), the WinHEC build will be a pre-beta 1 release. I think people will be surprised by the progress Microsoft has made (mostly because the company hasn't made any public mention of the work it's been doing).