April 14, 2004

Microsoft pencils in scaled down Longhorn for 2006

Microsoft said it is aiming to release Longhorn in the first half of 2006 - a move that will require the company to scale back some of its more ambitious plans for the next version of Windows.

The company said Longhorn will still include three major advances: a new file system known as WinFS, a new graphics engine dubbed Avalon and a web services architecture known as Indigo.

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