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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."

11 of 468 comments (clear)

  1. First Poast! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Poastest with the mostest!

  2. Scraped..... by Ride-My-Rocket · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    off of what? The drawingboard, I suppose.......

    1. Re:Scraped..... by OrangeSpyderMan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      off the bottom of Bill Gates' shoes? :-)

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      Try NetBSD... safe,straightforward,useful.
    2. Re:Scraped..... by Anarchofascist · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      off of what?
      The bottom of the barrel?

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      Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
  3. yeah yeah yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I r0x0r your b0x0r5

  4. haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    5th post!! Beat you to it!

  5. My First! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First POST!!!!

  6. Well if I were a "Longhorn" I'd quit too. by BoomerSooner · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The most depressing thing is Simms is gone next year. I guess Texas might have a chance at beating OU (doubtful).

  7. Re:scraped? by Fat+Linux+Bastard · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Must have been the delivery. Next time, try using some props.

  8. Re:yup by Fat+Linux+Bastard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe its time for a thicker pair of glasses?

    La
    De
    Da
    Da
    Da
    Waiting...............

  9. Re:Who Needs a Whole NEW Microsoft OS? by The+Bungi · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    That's nice. I've seen Windows 2000 AS boxes with uptimes of 113 days, just hummin' along without a single problem. Some of the heavier-use boxes get rebooted _on schedule_ on Sunday mornings every 59 to 64 days, and only because most people still can't get over the fact that W2K is _not_ NT4, which was a piece of crap. Actually the only time you need to reboot a W2K server is to apply a patch. If you have them in clusters you can kick one at a time and have exactly ZERO downtime. That's ZERO unplanned downtime, nach.

    So as the other poster said, you can put that in your pipe and smoke it.