I expect that Microsoft will require a subscription style monthly fee in order to get updates. They'll probably release it half-done too to make basically unusable if you're not subscribing. I've heard too that the encoding/encryption will make it such that copywrighted material is unaccessable without paying a fee/alerting the copywright holder. Kind of like if every photocopier at the library had a police officer stationed next to it.
Speculation on my part, but if either of these things are true I won't be upgrading.
Plus is "Longhorn" going to be Texas themed? blech.
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