Latest Updates
 3-25-02:
Confused about Microsoft's strategy for .NET? Then read the most
authoritative .NET FAQ on
the Web!
 3-18-02:
My Freestyle &
Mira
technology showcase is
updated with new Mira product shots!
 3-18-02:
Microsoft has sent along new
Office XP
and Windows XP
search tips! Check them out in
Technology Showcases!
3-14-02:
Lots of updates
today! You'll find new additions to our
Windows .NET Server
Family FAQ, the XP SP1 FAQ,
The Road to
Longhorn, and the Freestyle
& Mira technology showcase. Enjoy!
3-4-02:
Check out my latest FAQ, for
Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1)
,
a surprisingly exciting release due this fall!
 3-4-02:
My Windows .NET Server FAQ is updated
with new release
date information!
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It's the future of Windows... Today!
This site is dedicated to providing
all of the information you need
to evaluate Microsoft's upcoming Windows operating
system technologies. These exciting new products are based on
Windows
2000
,
which shipped in February 2000, and .NET
("dot net"), an exciting set of technologies that's
being rolled out over several years
.
The latest version of Windows 2000,
called Windows
XP
(code-named
Whistler
),
was released on October 25, 2001. Meanwhile, the next
Windows interim release,
Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1)
is due in August 2002. Server editions of Whistler, called Windows .NET
Server, will also ship in late 2002. A future Windows
version, code-named
Longhorn, is due in late 2003 or early
2004, while
the next major Windows release, with integrated .NET functionality,
is expected in 2004-5. That product is currently code-named Blackcomb.
This Web site provides continuous updates about
.NET
,
Windows XP SP1
,
Windows
.NET Server
,
and other Windows technologies
(including
Longhorn
and
Blackcomb
), while offering reviews,
FAQs, and technology showcases, all
designed to give you the information you need to decide which
Windows is for you. And the author of the SuperSite, Paul
Thurrott,
is a recognized Windows expert with over 10 years of Windows
experience. Paul is the author of over a dozen books about
Windows, Web and software development--and other computing topics.
His latest book is
Great Digital Media with Windows XP.
Paul is also the publisher of WinInfo,
the Windows Informant,
a daily news and information newsletter for Windows users, and the
News Editor for Windows & .NET
Magazine, where he also writes a weekly
Windows newsletter called Windows
& .NET Magazine UPDATE,
and a bi-weekly editorial for .NET UPDATE.
He is also the News Editor for
Connected
Home Magazine, where he writes about digital music
and various other digital media-related topics, both in
print and in online versions.
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