Allchin: Touts future of Windows server platform
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Microsoft, with its Windows server platform set to gain dramatic improvements in security, storage, and reliability, wants developers to build server applications that will last for decades, said Jim Allchin, group vice president of the company's platforms group, in a speech at the Microsoft DevCon conference here Friday. The executive touted the company's planned next-generation release of Windows, codenamed "Longhorn," which will not appear until the 2004 timeframe. Microsoft wants developers to push the limits of the Windows server platform, he stressed.
"You're really designing systems that will live not five years but 10, 15, 20 years," based on a Windows architecture that will be modular and componentized, Allchin told the audience.