Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday gave its most detailed look yet at the next version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," which promises new methods of storing files, tighter links to the Internet, greater security, and fewer annoying reboots.
At a conference for Microsoft programmers, Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates said Longhorn, when it arrives, would rank as Microsoft's largest software launch this decade and the biggest since its Windows 95 operating system.
Gates and other Microsoft executives did not say when Longhorn would be released, but promised outside programmers that the platform would represent a breakthrough in the way that computer users send, receive and work with information. |
