Windows codename “Longhorn” has now officially been officially christened “Windows Vista” by Microsoft. Microsoft has set up a small site for the new project stating that the new operating system will be sold to end users in 2006. Beta 1 will be released to developers and IT professionals on August 3rd but we, the end-users will have to wait till sometime mid-2006 or something. Beta 2 is supposed to have all the “GUI improvements” Microsoft has been promising with this new OS, we’ll see. I bet it’s still not going to be anywhere close to Mac OS X which was first released in 2001. They have a lot of catching up to do with Mac OS X GUI, that’s for sure.
