Windows Vista and WinFX: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Vista/Longhorn, the planned successor to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, stands out both on account of its sheer ambition and through the extent of the delays it has suffered. Its schedule slipped so often, and so many of its components were cancelled or postponed, that some journalists ironically dubbed it "Shorthorn." Now it is starting to look as if Microsoft may have the last laugh, as beta versions of Windows Vista and a long list of richly featured new subsystems are at last reaching developers -- who, on the whole, are impressed with what they see.

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