.Net Server's new name suggests delay
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft has once again tweaked the name of the successor to Windows 2000 Server, in a move that suggests its official release won't come until next year. During the Redmond, Wash.-based company's annual employee meeting this week, executives revealed that the follow-up to Windows 2000 Server will be called Windows .Net Server 2003. Microsoft developed the high-end operating system under the code-name Whistler. In April 2001, it officially named the product Windows 2002 Server. Microsoft later changed the name to Windows .Net Server and has now added 2003 to the product.
"I know 2003 release is way further out than they were talking about," Gillen said. "But I'm not sure that the customer base is sitting around waiting for this product. It's another release coming pretty close to another major release. I think 2003 will be good for them." The majority of NT 4 holdouts would likely go to Windows 2000 Server, he said.