Longhorn Server Scrapped

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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Analyst kisses up to MSFT, Film at 11

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Quote from the article:

"Server products are so complex, (simultaneous installation) may not always work out the way people hope," Silver said. "Maybe Microsoft has come to that realization, too."

I really like how C|Net only quotes an analyst who has something positive to say.

This is utterly bizarre - only MSFT can get away with cancelling a major release and not undergoing a hailstorm of criticism in the trade press. Things haven't changed in the computer trade press since at least 1992, when MSFT released a particularly weak, non-standards-compliant, single-CPU-architecture operating system called "NT" without a network-transparent window system, No other company could have gotten away with that in 1992, but the trade press kissed up on MSFT back then, just like they do now.