Three software waves coming from Microsoft
ENT News | at | by Mike
Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates spent his day Thursday trying to help the financial community understand the themes behind Microsoft's dozens of planned product releases over the next few years. The "wave" model he came up with may be equally helpful for IT decision makers trying to make sense of how Microsoft's roadmaps fit with their own organizations' plans. Gates, speaking at Microsoft's annual Financial Analysts Meeting, detailed three "waves" which carry most of the enterprise software coming from Microsoft over the next few years.
- Now wave - Windows .NET Server, which just entered the Release Candidate 1 stage; Windows Media 9 Series; Windows XP Media Center Edition; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition; Windows CE for Smart Displays; and an update of Visual Studio .NET.
- Yukon wave - next version of SQL Server
- Longhorn wave - next major release of Windows