Microsoft: Longhorn is now Windows Vista
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft announced the go-to-market name for the next-generation version of its Windows operating system: Vista.
The company said it expects to release a test of Windows Vista Beta 1, targeted at developers and IT professionals, by August 3rd. But expectations are that it could leak out sooner. In a video announcement broadcast online this morning, the company said Longhorn, the codename for the past couple of years for the beta, has been put out to pasture.
According to the company's Website, Vista is expected to arrive in 2006, a time frame analysts and company-watchers have long questioned since key features in Longhorn have been delayed or nixed since it was first unveiled in 2003.