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Longhorn Server Scrapped

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-to-whistler dept.

punkass writes "Microsoft announced Tuesday that plans for .Net Server, aka "Longhorn" have been scrapped and they will instead focus on the the release after that, code-named Blackcomb. NT4 came out in 96, 2k in 2000, and Longhorn was due out in 2005-06...Blackcomb seems to be a long time between releases."

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  1. Longhorn isn't .NET server by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Longhorn is the codename for the next general Windows release, ie meant for the desktop, it's not .NET Server which is something entirely different and without any of the SQL based filing system stuff

    1. Re:Longhorn isn't .NET server by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 5, Informative

      Correct. .NET server is effectively Windows XP server. It's based on the XP codebase and it sure as hell isn't being scrapped, we have a beta installed on a test server right now and it's almost complete (mainly just the documentation needs to be finished).

      Longhorn is the next OS. So MS is going forward with the deskto version for 2004, but is pushing the server version back.

    2. Re:Longhorn isn't .NET server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Windows XP is a client-only OS, there is no XP Server (nOt a Matrix-reference!)
      Windows .Net Server 2003 is the (server)followup to Windows 2000 Server.
      Windows XP (Pro) is the followup to Windows 2000 Workstation.
      And Windows XP Home (finally!) 'replaces' Windows 9x.

      JB

    3. Re:Longhorn isn't .NET server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      Indeed, Whistler is .NET Server. Whistler was also Windows XP... first time the desktop and server versions haven't been released together.

      Incidentally, Whistler and Blackcomb are two mountains near the village of Whistler, British Columbia, with rather decent skiing. Even better is the beer at the Longhorn Saloon, location between Whistler and Blackcomb mountains... See, Microsoft does have a sense of humour.

    4. Re:Longhorn isn't .NET server by netringer · · Score: 5, Informative

      You're right. Bill Gates himself talked about Longhorn last week on the Charlie Rose show.

      He said it's a "bet the company" project he's leading for a new easier to use desktop OS where all of the applications have the same easier to use user interface.

      The idea is for example, viewing a picture would use the same user interface as listening to a music source.

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  2. Longhorn is *not* .NET Server by sk3tch · · Score: 4, Informative

    Longhorn is the "codename" for the release *after* Windows .NET Server.

    Windows .NET Server is already at the Release Candidate stages, I highly doubt they're scrapping it...heck, I already received my free Leatherman Pulse tool engraved with the OS' name for trying out the software. :)

  3. Not .NET Server... by Anonymous+Commando · · Score: 5, Informative
    Longhorn is the successor to .NET Server. .NET Server is currently at release candidate 1.

    <ob_editor_bitching>How about a little fact checking, eh?</ob_editor_bitching>

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  4. .Net server is not Longhorn.... by Dot.Com.CEO · · Score: 5, Informative
    ...and it has definitely not been scraped. It is in final beta stage, actually.

    Longhorn refers to the next version of the Windows Server OS. I sometimes wonder whether the editors do any fact checking or even read the articles...

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  5. .Net Server hasn't been scrapped by theinfobox · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read the article, it is the version AFTER .Net Server that has been scrapped--code name Longhorn. .Net server has already shipped Release Candidate 1 and RC2 should be out shortly. The final .Net Server should be out next year. Longhorn server and desktop versions were due out in 2004. Since it take corporate environments a couple of years to roll out a server upgrade, MS figured .Net Server would never get implemented by most IT departments(i.e. they wouldn't sell many copies of .Net Server).

    Now, MS is just going to skip the Longhorn release in 2004 and instead go to the Blackcomb release.

  6. Windows NT corrections by Joe+U · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, Windows NT 3.1 (the first release) was a multi-cpu architecture operating system that ran on Intel, Mips, Alpha and eventually the PPC platform. It was Posix compatible and compatible with most well behaved Windows 3.1 apps. It had a version of Office for it and even a TCP/IP stack before the Internet was popular.

    I'm not sure what OS you're talking about, but it wasn't Windows NT.

    I won't even begin to get into the fact that longhorn was supposed to be a point release and not a new revision. (This would be Windows NT 5.2 if MS marketing didn't ruin a perfectly good version numbering scheme) (BTW, .net server is Windows NT 5.11, expect to see it in about 6 weeks.)