The release date of the next version of Microsoft Windows, code-named Longhorn, has been the subject of almost comical speculation on various news sites and weblogs, with journalists and enthusiasts going to great lengths to derive meaning from vague statements by company executives. The latest wave of this came last week, when executives at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans mentioned that the Longhorn release was about three years away. Alert listeners quickly did the math and realized that three years would put the release further out than 2005, the year suggested by an executive during a Microsoft conference in May.
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