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Channel 9 recently did a video interview with my favorite executive, Jim Allchin, the guy at Microsoft (or more appropriately the Vice President at Microsoft) that is responsible for Longhorn.  This is a great video that clarifies and describes what Longhorn is from an English language perspective… yet at a fairly technical level.  He really explains what our intentions are around Longhorn.

I wish this had come out a long time ago.

Here’s a list of questions (and the time code location of each) that were asked:

00:00 Where are we and who are you?
00:25 What do you do?
1:10 If you wanted to change the start button to a purple color you could probably get it done, huh?
1:30 What’s your average day like?
3:00 What’s a Jim Allchin review like?
5:14 What don’t we know about you?
7:30 You’re dogfooding Longhorn?
8:41 Tell me about your press tour last week. (Discussion about what Jim’s passionate about; 64-bit, peer-to-peer, stuff happening around edge).
14:35 What’s going to be thrilling in Longhorn? (Reaction to Winhec reaction. Discussion of Metro. Discussion of what Winhec was for).
18:17 Why are you so passionate about 64-bit Windows?
22:13 When did you get into this industry?
22:35 Are you suprised by how far this industry has come in just your lifetime? (Discussion of where industry is heading).
24:53 So the PC is not dead?
25:17 Getting the Channel 9 guys involved. What’s coming on the Tablet PC?
27:30 Any guesses on how long it’ll take most mobile devices to have inking capabilities?
29:07 What’s the developer story on Longhorn?
31:16 What is a business going to get out of upgrading to Longhorn?
36:09 The most exciting thing about Longhorn for me is security improvements (discussion of security improvements in Longhorn).
38:12 What kinds of new applications (or improved ones, like Notepad/Paint) will ship with Longhorn?
39:03 Will Avalon and Indigo be in Longhorn?
39:40 What is the desktop compositor?
41:33 What will Longhorn do with RSS?
43:00 What’s different about search in Longhorn?
45:45 When will we get a chance to use Longhorn?

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