eWeek sat down with Microsoft VP Jim Allchin, who showed a demo of the next version of Windows (code-named Longhorn) and talked about Why Longhorn Matters. The short version? “Longhorn is going to be a heck of a lot more than just Windows XP Service Pack 3.”
I’ll be at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle later this month, where a lot of this stuff should be demonstrated publicly for the first time. And I’m in early discussions to write at least one and probably several books about Longhorn. Stay tuned to this space for more details.