Analyst: No Longhorn before 2006
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft may still be aiming for a 2005 delivery of Longhorn, the next iteration of the Windows operating system, but one analyst says don't hold your breath. Joe Wilcox, lead Microsoft analyst for Jupiter Research said Microsoft's efforts to align all of its products with the Longhorn operating system -- and its new Windows Future Storage (WinFS) file system -- will force it to push public release of the OS back to 2006.
"In mid-2003, Microsoft began making major changes to its development strategy for Longhorn, the next-generation version of Windows," Wilcox wrote in a new report called "Longhorn: Implications of Next Windows' Ship Date."