Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Microsoft is designing its ever-present Windows ...

Longhorn has already survived several major delays, intense scrutiny from the industry and a radical redesign of its features. But the toughest test for Microsoft's next release of Windows is still to ...

Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system — code-named Longhorn — into the developer community, Microsoft has released previews of the software. The actual Longhorn operating system ...

Let's face it, Microsoft is a lighting rod when it comes to security. In past weeks, it's drawn fire from McAfee and the European Union, among others, over closing the Vista kernel. Furthermore, the ...

Microsoft took another step toward releasing a beta version of Longhorn, the next edition of Windows, with the debut Monday of developer tools for the operating system. The company is providing free ...

SEATTLE--Although Microsoft is recommending that computers be pretty modern to fully run the next version of Windows, Longhorn will probably also run on a good number of older machines. That's the ...

Microsoft is expected to provide the first public details of its plans for Longhorn Embedded to developers in May at its Microsoft Mobility and Embedded DevCon in Las Vegas. However, to date, ...

With all of the coverage of Windows Vista and its many improvements for client desktops, it’s easy to forget that an equally large team of developers is working on the next generation of Windows on ...

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. has synchronized development efforts for the client and server versions of Longhorn, the code name for the next Windows release, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday. “Today, ...

Microsoft is posting the final beta and first publicly available and feature-complete version of Windows Server “Longhorn,” marking the final time the product will be available for testing and ...