It's such a shame, I figured that Longhorn would have been a much better name than Vista. And then the WinFS system, which was 'supposed' to be the whole point of Longhorn won't be out in time.
D'oh.
 

I wonder if windows is going to ressurect clippie, maybe they could have a cool Start>Accessories>Games>Kill Clippie Game?

Longhorn has been "anticipated" so long that I forgot it was an ongoing project. There were several articles over the past few years that talked about the negative impact the development of the new OS has had on morale of developers at Microsoft. Hopefully 3rd party developers will be able to take advantage of some of the new features instead of "retrofitting" current builds...we'll have to wait and see I suppose.