Microsoft weighs another about-face on Longhorn
nwfusion.com | at | by Mike
Despite recent claims to the contrary, there may be a Windows server operating system code-named Longhorn after all, a Microsoft executive said yesterday. Just last November, Microsoft officials said that the next major Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, would be a client-only release (see story). But Brian Valentine, senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows division, told Computerworld yesterday that that announcement was "a bit premature" based on engineering planning.
During an interview at the Microsoft Management Summit here, Valentine said that some of the new client capabilities being enabled in Longhorn, such as richer collaboration and integrated storage, will require infrastructure services on top of the server operating system. How those server operating system additions will be packaged and delivered has yet to be decided, he said.