At Microsoft, all roads lead to Longhorn
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft this week gave customers a sneak peek at forthcoming development and management tools which are part of company's multiyear plans for the product. In interviews with CNET News.com at the company's TechEd customer conference here, Microsoft executives sketched out the company's product release plans for next year. High on the agenda were products designed to work with the next major release of the Windows desktop operating system, code-named Longhorn.
Longhorn has become the centerpiece of Microsoft's future product strategy. Underscoring the importance of the operating system upgrade, CEO Steve Ballmer, in a memo sent to Microsoft employees on Wednesday, said that Longhorn was "even bigger, perhaps, than the first generation of Windows."