Windows Microsoft says Longhorn will be ready by Christmas 2006 Microsoft Corp. assured computer-makers Monday that the next version of Windows is on track for release by the 2006 holiday season, after several years of delays. And Bill Gates himself conceded that he's impatient to see the company finish the new operating system, code-named Longhorn. "Whenever I see those demos, I just think, 'Gosh, let's get Longhorn done, ' " the Microsoft chairman said in a speech at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle. The company used the conference to demonstrate several of the underlying technologies and features planned for Longhorn, which the company initially scheduled for release in 2003.

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