Gservo
31st January 2003, 04:06 AM
Microsoft legal document put a late 2004 expected ship date on the next client version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," putting in black and white what Microsoft officials have been telling partners, customers and reporters in private conversations.
".NET will not be included by default in Windows until the next version of Windows, expected to be released in late 2004," Microsoft lawyers wrote in legal filings last week.
The OS could potentially carry the first new file system since NTFS, the Windows NT file system. That file system is rumored to be based on work being done in Yukon, the next version of SQL Server. Because the broad beta phase for Yukon isn't expected until the middle of this year, building the file system into Longhorn by the 2004 timeframe, will require fast work.
Microsoft officials have also talked about a single, unified interface for interacting with programs from word processors to spreadsheets to e-mail, a project that would require an overhaul of the Office suite as well.
http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5674
".NET will not be included by default in Windows until the next version of Windows, expected to be released in late 2004," Microsoft lawyers wrote in legal filings last week.
The OS could potentially carry the first new file system since NTFS, the Windows NT file system. That file system is rumored to be based on work being done in Yukon, the next version of SQL Server. Because the broad beta phase for Yukon isn't expected until the middle of this year, building the file system into Longhorn by the 2004 timeframe, will require fast work.
Microsoft officials have also talked about a single, unified interface for interacting with programs from word processors to spreadsheets to e-mail, a project that would require an overhaul of the Office suite as well.
http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5674