News about Longhorn

Hot off the PR-approved presses:

Tomorrow [Friday], at 6 am PDT, the following Web link will go live with new information. I can’t tell you what we will actually be sharing, but you will learn something new about "Longhorn"
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-22LHMA.mspx

Gentlemen, start your slashdotting engines!

(And yes, this is the first time I've seen an internal press-release announcement with a smiley)

Something new!!!!!!!!



Ok I suppose I can play the guessing game

Longhorn will be free.

Many thanks for the heads up! Will write an article about it...
 

ill play along too:  because it said something new about "longhorn" <- note the quotes

i bet its the new name - as we know they said internally its been out for sometime

so i guess we find out  FX / 3D  / 2006 whatever it will be

Something new about Longhorn.... it's ... been ... canned. 

LOL sorry couldn't resist, it just popped in there.

Set my homepage to that URL, so I'll find out when I login tomorrow.

It's gonna be called windows vista

Or windows DRM :O

MS Windows Vista was the codename for the Visual Statistics System.

Vista

1. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
2. An avenue or other passage affording such a view.
3. An awareness of a range of time, events, or subjects; a broad mental view: “the deep and sweeping vistas these pioneering critics opened up” (Arthur C. Danto).

i dont not like it ..takes a bit of getting used to

Windows Vista is going to be a bit hard to get used to. Such an odd name.


mVPstar

its prounonced vista right - or veesta?

I'm pronouncing it "veesta".  That sounds odd, though, pronouncing it as Windows "vista" is a mouthful.


mVPstar

haha i liked vis-ta better - like a car

veesta?  hey meesta - wanna try my veesta?

Oh well, must go to sleep very soon so I can hear the "news" on Longhorn at 6am.


Sooo...hasta la...vista

mVPstar

haha - ok well thats a good connotation cool!

jamie wrote:

haha - ok well thats a good connotation cool!

stole it from scoble's comments

i still keep picturing the Frito Bandito

hahaha

ie yi yi yi...

hasta la vista = until Vista


very appropriate given the delay

jonathanh wrote:

Tomorrow [Friday], at 6 am PDT, the following Web link will go live with new information. I can’t tell you what we will actually be sharing, but you will learn something new about "Longhorn" http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-22LHMA.mspx

LHMA might be a clue. LH=Longhorn of course, the A may be announcement. That leaves the M, which if it was "Microsoft" probably would have been placed before LH.

My guess is that it's about beta bits. Perhaps Steve is quoted screaming "BETA, BETA, BETA!!! BETA FOR EVERYONE!!".