Saturday, 10. April 2004
Topic: COMPUTER - on April 10, 2004 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn
To get the already-delayed follow-up to Windows XP out the door by 2006, it has decided to omit some of the most ambitious features. Never in its history has Microsoft (MSFT ) had to wait so long between Windows releases. When Windows XP launched in October, 2001, researcher Gartner Inc. expected the software giant to gin up a new version within two years. But Microsoft's ambitious follow-up to Windows XP, code-named Longhorn, has bogged down in delays. The company rarely discloses timelines for products, lest it miss its targets. But in copies of two e-mail messages obtained by BusinessWeek, Microsoft lays out a roadmap that shows Longhorn debuting in the first six months of 2006.
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