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With the first public showing and release code of Longhorn this week at the PDC, there's been lots of speculation about how long it will take for users to adopt Longhorn. With the OS not expected until 2006 at the earliest, many suspect it will be 2010 before people really start to adopt it. I suspect it will be much earlier. Why? One word: security. The current Windows code base will be very difficult to secure people's PCs. Why? It was created at a time when outside intrusion to the PC was not a big issue and it will be impossible to fix. A new codebase will be required. That's Longhorn. People will want their PCs to be secure. To do that, they will have to install Longhorn.