Allchin: Yukon Coming in '03-'04, Longhorn in '05
ENT News | at | by Mike
Jim Allchin, group vice president of platforms at Microsoft laid out the roadmap during a keynote address at the Windows Server DevCon in Seattle last Friday. For Longhorn, this roadmap represents somewhat lofty expectations. Microsoft has said Longhorn will include a major upgrade of its server platform. But, it has not yet released Windows .NET Server, which by most accounts is a relatively minor upgrade to Microsoft's existing server OS, Windows 2000. As of now, Windows .NET Server is expected for general availability in early 2003, leaving just about two years for Microsoft to revamp its server platform for Longhorn.