late 2006? with out all the cool features everyone was hoping for and it will be 64 bit. 64 bit xp comes out late this year, but its a problem because u need 64 bit drivers
it is recommed that you have a 64 bit processor, if you dont have it will run slow as hell but who know
I am going to have to modify what you said to : Longhorn could have been good but it has turned out to be the Windows ME of the NT kernel. Windows needs to start with a fresh kernel to get rid of the security bugs. On the feature side Longhorn has been castrated repeatedly. WinFS was supposed to be up there with the likes of ReiserFS 4 (apart from WinFS being non atomic). This then changed to NTFS + SQL data base (which is ok but will run slow as hell). Then to NTFS + SQL database (but only in my documents) (which is a plain joke). THen to shelved. NTFS is aging fast and a new FS is needed to keep windows running for the next decade. THey could choose the heavy hitter of ReiserFS 4 but they wont because its open source. They are going to have to make their own one but that is going to take a while especially as WinFS has been shelved for a while.
