Ok, I know that this is not hot-of-the-press news, but I’ve been a bit lazy in my blogging duties. Monad, Microsoft’s new command line interface, was supposed to debut in Longhorn. However, as recently reported

, it’s probably not going to make it in after all.

Now, I’m starting to wonder, as many out there surely have, what is it exactly that Longhorn will be anyway? It surely sounds like it going to be more like a “Window XP Version 2” instead of the powerhouse that was originally hyped to begin with. Why should consumers, and more importantly (to Microsoft) businesses buy Longhorn?

The PDC bits better blow our socks off.