Microsoft has chosen the WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) event to present some of the new functions of the Longhorn operating system.

Bill Gates himself did the honors and presented the main improvements of the system, outlining the functions of spam filtering and the improved anti-fraud systems.

Five years since Windows's last resuscitation, Microsoft is ready to repeat the same story for what is called the most advanced and stable Microsoft operating system. But users will have to wait until next year, and in the meantime they will have to settle with the trial version announced for this summer.

File sharing technologies, virus blocking and information and document organizing are Longhorn's hottest features and the new GUI is the long awaited revolution expected by many users.

In Microsoft's vision, until Longhorn is released, everybody should have made the step towards 64 bit technology. But this migration from 32 to 64 bits is almost impossible in such short notice, and the absence of drivers will surely make users reticent, even more since they are so accustomed to the 32 bits.

Still, Microsoft is also taking this possibility into consideration, and that is why Longhorn will also have a version for 32 bits.