Bill Gates can fiddle while the next version of Windows (Windows Hasta La Vista) is pushed back to the end of 2006. In the meantime Linux software will see many new releases.
For example, here’s
A Prerelease Tour of GNOME 2.12. It gives a view of the next release of the GNOME interface which will be released in September. I’m sure it will be in various major Linux distributions like Fedora Core and Ubuntu shortly thereafter.