Microsoft to launch Longhorn Beta this summer

06/16/05 - newratings.com

NEW YORK, June 16 (newratings.com) – Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) is planning to launch a beta version of its long-awaited Longhorn operating system for home users by this summer, while the next version of the company's Windows Server, Longhorn Server, is unlikely to be released until 2007.

eWeek Thursday quoted the senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows Server division, Bob Muglia, as saying that the company is planning a home server edition of its upcoming Windows operating system, Longhorn. According to eWeek, Muglia said on an online forum that the software giant plans to release a beta version of the Longhorn server about the same time when the Longhorn beta version is released. Microsoft plans to launch a beta version of the desktop version of Longhorn this summer, while the final version is likely to be released in 2H06, the report added.