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Longhorn Beta 1 Milestone 9 (Beta 1 M9) and platform code complete*
March 16, 2005
Note: The "platform code complete" designation does not mean that the Longhorn feature set will in any way be finalized by this point in time. Instead, this term refers to an internal "quality gate" that Longhorn builds must pass in order for the project to be moved into the main build labs for wider distribution.

Longhorn Beta 1
May 25, 2005

Longhorn Beta 2
October 12, 2005

Longhorn Client Release Candidate 0 (RC0)
February 22, 2006

Longhorn Client Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
April 2006

Longhorn Client release to manufacturing (RTM)
May 24, 2006

Longhorn Launch (widespread public availability)
Summer 2006 to October 2006, depending on release schedules for other Longhorn wave products.

Longhorn Server RTM/Longhorn Client SP1 RTM
Second half of 2006/first half of 2007 (Client RTM + 6 months)
(from winsupersite.com)
 
Have a look here, this guy tracks everything Windows and has excellent knowledge of Longhorn.

Here are Microsoft's Longhorn hardware recommendations:

Desktop CPU: 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with HyperThreading Technology 530 (or higher) or 3 GHz Intel Xeon processor with 2 MB L2 cache, or AMD Athlon 64, Sempron, or Opteron 100, 200, or 800 processor, single or dual-core versions.

Mobile CPU: 1.86 GHz Intel Pentium M processor 750 (or higher), or AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology, Mobile Sempron, or Mobile Athlon 64 processor.

RAM: 512 MB of RAM or more, all platforms.

The Road to Longhorn
 
I probably won't be getting Longhorn for this computer. I do plan on building completely new in the Summer of 2006, so that will be my first Longhorn PC.
 
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