Next XP rev Longhorn a 2003, client-only product?
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 11 November 2002 - 19:42 · 6 comments & 493 views
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#1 Posted by Justin03248 on 11 Nov 2002 - 19:46
- There's no way they'll be able to do everything that they originally wanted to do in that short amount of time... but I've always said there's no way MS will let 2 fiscal years go by without a new OS in this economy. I just hope it gets the MSN 8 color scheme... the Luna scheme is OK, but it reminds me too much of Fisher Price. I also hope they add Optimal Refresh Rates to Longhon like Win 9x has....
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#2 Posted by prick on 11 Nov 2002 - 20:23
- id love to see/have longhorn by this time 2003. to be honest im getting sick of having nothing new to play with with windows xp.
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#3 Posted by Tom Servo on 11 Nov 2002 - 20:37
- Longhorn at 2003? How is that going to work? How will they compensate the other two years planned, coz it was slated for 2005? So it'll be scheduled for Dec 2003/Jan 2004 instead of somewhere 2005/6?
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#4 Posted by 99 to Life on 11 Nov 2002 - 20:54
- What the hell? Microsfot is smoking too much loco-weed!
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#5 Posted by hardgiant on 11 Nov 2002 - 20:56
- The early alpha looked pretty good. The following features need to be added: Office XP menu's Better open/save Dialog's (and all dialogs for that matter) explorer sucks but I doubt they will improve it much. October 25, 2003 is my guess since it will be 2 years!
The Grand Old Duke of York is clearly in charge of Microsoft's operating systems roadmaps for, having marched Longhorn up to the top of a distant (2005, said his Billness) hill earlier this year, he has now marched it straight back down again. Longhorn, the next version of Windows XP, will not after all be a 2005 product, but will quite possibly be a next year product after all.
"Given the deployment cycles and budgeting that customers work through," said a spokeswoman, "and given the significant customer interest in our upcoming release of Windows .NET Server 2003, we have determined that another major release of Windows Server in the Longhorn client timeframe does not meet the needs of most of our customers."
Now, with .NET Server 2003 due in early 2003, if Microsoft is syncing its server and client OS release dates (yes, we know, if it really is doing this why is it .NET Server 2003, but Microsoft has been 'officially' syncing them, even though it isn't doing it really) then it ought to have another rev of .NET Server out at the same time as Longhorn.
Or it ought to mean to, anyway. But if you look again at what the spokeswoman said first, she's citing customers, which with .NET Server would be big customers. Microsoft has been coming under pressure from these to produce more accurate roadmaps, and it does seem to be trying to do so. So, simply saying you're going to do something then not doing it really isn't an option.
Now, she also says there'll be a major Server release, which will presumably be Blackcomb, to follow .NET Server 2003. So no major server release with Longhorn, but major server release to follow the next server release. Which means Longhorn is earlier, but is client-only. And if it is a 2003 product, then all of the people who said Microsoft was only kidding earlier this year will turn out to have been right