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Developers Shrug Off Longhorn Delay Rumors

Time: 11:25 EST/16:25 GMT | News Source: E-Commerce Times | Posted By: Robert Stein

Thanks Stephen "Last October, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates unveiled an early technical preview of Longhorn -- the planned next-generation Windows operating system -- to attendees at the Redmond, Washington-based company's Professional Developers Conference. Jim Allchin, group vice president of the Platforms Group at Microsoft, previewed Avalon, the graphics subsystem behind Longhorn's new presentation technologies; WinFS, Longhorn's storage subsystem; and Indigo, the basis for the pending operating system's communications technologies. Companies already developing in Microsoft's .NET environment are well positioned to take advantage of Longhorn's advances, Allchin told the thousands of developers gathered at the event. "