Next Microsoft operating system will be radical change from XP

Rumours are leaking out over the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, due out in test form next year and in final form in 2004. It will have a new look and feel, very different from Windows XP. Its guts will also be radically different from Windows XP, because they’re based on XML, the emerging lingua franca of the Internet. And it will be the first version that won’t function fully without new hardware