Microsoft Unwraps Longhorn
-The new operating system, still a few years away, is expected to change the way developers write business apps
For anyone who develops software for Windows PCs--and that includes nearly everyone who manages business applications--Oct. 27 is a red-letter day. Microsoft will take the wraps off the first publicly available code for its next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. It's due in 2006, if all goes according to plan. Billed as the biggest release of Microsoft's flagship product since Windows 95 nearly a decade ago, Longhorn will include technology for building a new generation of "smart client" software that combines the look and feel of PC applications such as Word or Excel with immediate access to information on the Web.



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