Analyst pegs Longhorn release at 2006
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A market analyst is warning customers not to expect Windows "Longhorn," the code-name for the successor to Windows XP, until 2006. That date is a year later than Microsoft's most recent statements on when customers could expect the operating system to ship.
"Given that Microsoft is delivering not just one but many Longhorn products, we don't expect this next version of Windows to be generally available until 2006," Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox said in a statement released Wednesday. "Microsoft will also want to give software developers and end-users time to prepare for the new file system."