Microsoft Corp's senior vice president of the Windows division, Brian Valentine, has denied suggestions that the company is readying a second release of its Windows XP desktop operating system.

Following reports that Windows XP's replacement, codenamed Longhorn, had slipped to a 2005 release date, rumors have been growing that Microsoft is preparing a second edition of Windows XP for release in 2003. The speculation intensified this week with the leak of a new Windows desktop operating system build. Valentine denied that the company is preparing a second edition of Windows XP, however, and stated that feature and function enhancements would be delivered via service packs, rather than a fully fledged code refresh.

Despite a great deal of interest from the assembled masses, Valentine declined to discuss the features that can be expected with Longhorn, adding that a lot could change between now and its release. One feature he did discuss was the increase in consistency in the storage subsystem to provide consistent naming between, for example, web and mail address books. Valentine did, however, confirm earlier reports that there will not be a Longhorn version of the server operating system. With the next version of the server OS, Windows .NET Server 2003, due for general availability in April 2003, the delivery of server-side functionality to support Longhorn clients will come via feature or service packs, he said. The follow-up to Windows .NET Server is the long lost product codenamed Blackcomb, which currently has no scheduled or hinted release date.

News source: The Reg

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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by JaggedFlame on 21 Nov 2002 - 13:09
[quote]The speculation intensified this week with the leak of a new Windows desktop operating system build.[/quote] Yeah. The leak of an operating system called Longhorn, which isn't due out until 2005. By all ration and logic, Microsoft MUST be working on an OS in 2003, then, right? Whatever.
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by Neobond on 21 Nov 2002 - 13:38
Amen
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by ramesees on 21 Nov 2002 - 15:29
As I'm sure has been said before and do doubt will be said again, the more time that Microsoft has to concentrate on Longhorn the better it will be for all concerned. "Wasting time" trying to produce a second version of XP between now and 2003 will only detract from Longhorn As long as there are service packs every year between now and Longhorn for XP, there should be no need to start looking for XPSE
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by hardgiant on 21 Nov 2002 - 15:30
Microsoft is a weird company, they have 95% of the desktop market but keep there cards super close to there chest. Why they don't just release a new OS every two years with whatever working advancements they have develop is beyond me. Seems like that would make more business sense.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by ramesees on 21 Nov 2002 - 16:47
Not everyone can afford to upgrade their OS every two years. Why do you think so many people are still using Windows 95 and 98? And anyway, MS have released their OS's two years apart for the consumer market. Its the old adage, if it aint broke dont fix it, or at least thats what mom and pop users think anyway. Now I know there are serious problems with the 9x range of OS's (security, stability etc..) compared to those of the NT range, hence the reason for XP, a bridging OS between the old way of doing things (9 and the future (NT kernel) Sooner or later home consumers will cotton on, when the latest software doesn't support their ancient OS, and they will be "forced" to use the lastest OS be that XP or Longhorn or whatever.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Angel Blue01 on 22 Nov 2002 - 00:47
Right #4! Just as MS is dropping 9x, the 95 users I know are getting new PCs... And the discover that you can't network them, or use the File & Settings Tranfer Wizard on 95. MS doesn't seem to realize that its the users of the [i]oldest[/i] PCs who are buying new ones, not the ME users; they're set 'till 2004 at least. So support the old ones, at least till Longhorn...
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