It’s been a considerable period since I heard about Longhorn from the developer view (and user too), but everyday Longhorn seems much far away. After the PDC in October 2003 my aggregator has begun to drown in a ton of hyper-enthusiastic posts about Avalon, Indigo, WinFX, WinFS and so on. I have nothing against Longhorn and less nothing against the MS guys (or not MS) who post about it but today is the twelfth day of Februrary 2004, and 2/3 years in IT are literally an era.
In addition in these days i came through posts such as Josh Heitman’s and my opinion that it’s too early get confirmed. Some other guys and girls have a similar opinion about the “new” bleeding edge technologies.