Chris Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Bill Gates yesterday confirmed that there is no official release date yet for the next version of Windows, named Longhorn. "Longhorn could be 2005 or 2006," Gates told a small group of journalists yesterday at the TechNet/MSDN seminar in The Hague. "This release is going to be driven by technology, not by a release date. Which probably means it is going to be late." Gates also doesn't seem to have a lot of faith in 64 bit technologies in the consumer space. "64 bit is coming to desktops, there is no doubt about that," he said. "But apart from Photoshop, I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory, which is what you have to have in order to benefit from this technology. Right now, it is costly." :o Gates says he isn't aware of Microsoft expanding its relationship with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies in a deal designed to more closely integrate the basic building blocks of the PC with the Longhorn system, as suggested by ZDNET. Both Microsoft and Phoenix are involved in plans to integrate digital rights management (DRM) technology at the operating system and hardware level, according to sources in the US. There was info on this on here eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 It sounds like Bill is buying time by stating a 2006 release.I also know we have Bill to thank for the current computing market, but how does he know if 64bit computing wont benifit personal computer users? Can he fore see new software hat has not been designed yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Death to DRM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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