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Microsoft has declared that it in May will announce which hardware necessarily is round Longhorn, the next Windows-version, can turn. That will happen during the WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference), a conference for developers.

In a notification of the conference tells the software giant that hardware and driverdevelopers “a first long look” may throw on Longhorn.,. Next to the system specifications, Microsoft detailed explanation will give about the writing of the drivers for the making of hardware connections in Longhorn. Further the business information about future projects on the territory of mobile computing and Tablet PC, Media Center Edition, 64 gives availed-Windows and embedded versions of Windows.

Microsoft put past fall a preview of the operating system available at developers and has promised to bring the first test version this summer out. When the definitive version of Longhorn on the market comes, is not yet known, but market researchers expect that this end 2005 or in the beginning of 2006 will happen.

The software giant price Longhorn at as the largest progress for Windows since Windows 95. The operating system contain three large upgrades, a new graphic and presentation motor with the code name Avalon, a new communication architecture named Indigo and a new truce system that known state as WinFS.

CNet Ina Fried