Geektalk: Shorter WinHEC

"Aqua and Quartz Extreme and Expose are the coolest things we've ever seen and we are so going to steal them to be the centerpiece of Longhorn, which by the way we've pushed back another year, to 2007 (at the earliest). Apple users, who are already enjoying everything we have in mind for Longhorn except the DRM and the viruses and the instability today, will probably be activating thought-controlled computers from the anti-gravity lofts of their cloud city by then."

See my previous entry to find out how much this is going to cost you. Hint: you might want to start building a special refrigerated add-on to your house now. And forget about sending your kids to college.