Microsoft vs. the World
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
You might not realize it yet, but Microsoft has big plans for your future. The company has shown its cards for what it calls its "next big platform waves." In about 2 years, if all goes well, Microsoft customers will be lining up for a "spending wave" to pay for the Longhorn wave of technologies--which will include new versions of Windows, Windows Server, Microsoft Office, and various other products. Longhorn will be a huge leap over current technologies and will interoperate in ways that are impossible today. Microsoft's bet--and frankly, it's a bigger gamble than any of its public "bet the company" claims for Microsoft .NET or Windows Server 2003--is that customers will be so amazed by Longhorn's capabilities that they'll sign up for the full-meal deal, upgrading to not just the Windows client but also Windows Server, Office, and the other products.