Microsoft's Product Roadmap

[XPero]

Microsoft's Product Roadmap

[prathapml]

LOL, the way things are progressing, I'd ask are you sure this news is not stale?

XPSP3 doesn't look like it will get released that early (as the pic shows). And longhorn (despite claims that it will be released in 2006) looks to be delayed until 2007 or 2008 at least.

And then, there's maybe going to be a period of time passing before longhorn matures into a stable OS. Remember Win95 (which was equally revolutionary) took 6 years to evolve into Windows 2000 (a mature version of itself).

This time MS will be different

I doubt it - old habits die hard.

[CoffeeFiend]

XP SP3 is not gonna be here anytime soon, that's for sure. I can't see them coming out with a new service pack in the next 4 months, while SP2 has already cause enough problems by itself - that won't be completely solved even by 2005...

Longhorn, it's gonna be in a long time, and it looks so much of a GUI-overbloated OS with nothing interesting in it for me, I just might stick to XP/2003 for another 10 years instead, or do a switch to linux then? Who knows.

XP Tablet is here but Tablets just aren't catching on, mostly because of the price...

Media Center (MCE and MCE 2004) are just not worth it imho. There's tons of other HTPC front ends out there and better apps for the job. The only thing I like from it is the remote...