Poulet Posted July 27, 2002 Share Posted July 27, 2002 Longhorn: It's All in the Timing - Source: http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index...ArticleID=26058 The next major revision of Windows, code-named Longhorn, won't ship until 2005 at the earliest. Various Microsoft executives have said as much, certainly, and this week Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates even specifically mentioned the date during the company's annual financial analysts meeting. But the Longhorn release schedule is tied to so many other products and technologies now, that a timeframe of 2005 (or beyond) is virtually guaranteed. Here's why: Gates said this week that Longhorn would be tied to future releases of Office, Exchange Server, and, of course, the SQL Server "Yukon" technologies, which will be used for the Longhorn file system. And my understanding is that the Longhorn's server versions--the follow-ups to the Windows .NET Server family releases that will happen in Q1 2003--will be released in lock-step with the Longhorn desktop versions. Given all this information, how quickly would Microsoft release updates to Office, Exchange and Windows Server? I'm thinking two years would be the minimum, and indeed, Office 11 will ship mid-2003, meaning that Office 12--the one that will be released along with Longhorn--won't happen until at least mid-2005. And consider Windows Server: Windows 2000 Server shipped to customers in February 2000, with its successor, a minor update called Win.NET Server, hitting around the same time in 2003. So how could the next one hit any sooner than mid-2005? It can't. So Longhorn is definitely on track for mid-2005 or later. And that, people, means that we can expect at least one or two interim Windows XP releases in the meantime, as I've been saying for a while now. And though Microsoft won't talk about these releases because it's busy pushing XP SP1, XP Tablet PC Edition, and XP Media Center Edition right now, I can assure you that mentions of future XP versions will start appearing later this year. It's unavoidable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypercube Posted July 27, 2002 Share Posted July 27, 2002 A long wait, just 3 more years :ermm: I guess XP can be king for a while :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted July 27, 2002 Share Posted July 27, 2002 Hell I will graduate from HS before Longhorn is released. :s I guess Blackcomb will come out by, oh, 2010, after I graduate from college. Why can't Microsoft make up their damn minds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EDF Posted July 29, 2002 Share Posted July 29, 2002 They should just with xp and build on tot that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts