Windows Vista - Official Name of Longhorn is Vista Windows
Bringing clarity to your world.
Today we live in a world of more information, more ways to
communicate, more things to do. There is more you can do and
even more you can discover.
Every day, millions of people around the globe rely on their
Windows PC to manage their increasingly digital lives. While
familiar tools for managing digital information are powerful,
today's world requires more.
In today's digital world, you want the PC to adapt to you, so
you can cut through the clutter and focus on what's important to
you.
It enables a new level of confidence in your PC and in your
ability to get the most out of it.
It introduces clear ways to organize and use information the way
you want to use it.
It seamlessly connects you to information, people, and devices
that help you get the most out of life.
Windows Vista was originally expected to ship sometime early in
2006 as a minor step between Windows XP and Windows Blackcomb.
Gradually, Vista assimilated many important new features and
technologies of Blackcomb. On August 27, 2004, Microsoft
announced that it is delaying release of WinFS so that Vista
could be released in "a reasonable timeframe" (officially marked
as December of 2006). Two beta versions have been planned, the
first expected to debut on or before 3 Aug 2005 and the second
in Q4 2005, with release candidates to be released throughout
2006, five years after the release of Windows XP, making it the
longest time span between releases of its Windows operating
system.
Vista is currently available as a preview release available to
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers, and at select
Microsoft developer conferences. The preview release is
classified as an alpha version at the moment, and as such its
performance and feature sets are not representative of the
release product. Like many other products (including all Windows
releases since Windows 98), it has since been leaked onto
popular file sharing networks.