.NET Server: Three delays a charm?
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft has for the third time delayed the launch of its Windows .Net Server 2003 high-end operating system. During his Comdex keynote address on Sunday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates revealed that the company would launch Windows .Net Server 2003 in April, marking the third delay for the server counterpart to the company's Windows XP operating system.
In one sense, the delay makes sense. Analysts expect .Net Server to take off slowly because so many businesses either recently moved to Windows 2000 or are in the process of doing so. For its part, Microsoft believes there is pent-up demand among the 15 percent or so of Windows Server operating system customers still running the older Windows NT version. "There's not a major demand right now for the high-end Windows, so in that sense this delay isn't that big a deal," said Technology Business Research analyst Bob Sutherland. "If they had a lot more customers waiting for it, it would be a much bigger deal.