Next XP rev Longhorn a 2003, client-only product?

[ChrisPS]

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.

Read full story here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28032.html

[ChrisPS]

I think what this guy needs to realise is Microsoft talk in quaters so it will probably be *in theory* Windows.NET 2004 . I do not know what they will call it the reason why they made it XP was purely to stop puting a date on the OS like Windows 95-2000.

The aim of Microsoft currently is to create a product "windows" and give it a name specific to it so if anyone even comes close like "lindows" they can sue the pants off them.

They want a trademark that is easy to identify in the marketing audience which currently is a very basic user.

Even looking at the idea of calling their Operating System a Media Centre makes sense to me however they have already coined that phrase elsewhere.

[ChrisPS]

Should have posted this here

Windows "Longhorn" Server Cancelled

11/11/2002 — Microsoft Corp. abandoned its plans to ship client and server versions of Windows simultaneously in the "Longhorn" release, a company spokeswoman confirmed Monday.

Instead, "Longhorn" will be a client-only release, with the successor to Windows .NET Server 2003 coming later under the code-name "Blackcomb."

Longhorn had been the version of Windows scheduled to come out after Windows XP on the client side and after Windows .NET Server 2003 on the server side. Some Microsoft officials' original comments when the company first injected the Longhorn project into the product roadmap a few years ago suggested it would be an interim release and primarily a client-only operating system. Longhorn grew into a major overhaul of both client and server operating systems. Now, Microsoft is back to the client-only part.

Story here: http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?Edi...itorialsID=5585