Windows Longhorn

What was officially meant to be a Windows XP service pack came out to be the beginning of a new Windows. While the first service pack for WinXP came out a month ago, the new Windows, now known as "Longhorn", is planned for 2005. The interface is going to be completely different from the one of current Windows. It's told to be even more effective and more ergonomic. The network capabilities are expected to be largely improved.

So let's hope Microsoft has learned something from Linux in terms of security, compatibility and system stability. Despite some minor faults, everybody is going to hope for a soon alpha or even beta release, but hopefully these releases won't be as incompatible with the current hardware as Windows XP was at its beta#1 and beta#2 stages.