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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."

5 of 468 comments (clear)

  1. Re:FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    your thrid you fricken tart.
    you can't even troll right.
    go drown yourself

  2. Once again Slashdot knows nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Longhorn" is not .Net Server. .Net Server 2003 is at RC phase, and will be released next spring. "Longhorn" was supposed to be the release after that, but "Longhorn" will know come out as a client OS only, and after that the next server OS is "Blackcomb"

  3. Analyst kisses up to MSFT, Film at 11 by phsolide · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

    --
    Quit playing Monopoly with Bill. Switch to one of many non-Microsoft products today.
  4. How can anyone reply intelligently... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...to such a retarded post? This has to be a troll or you are one giant idiot.

  5. /. dumb fucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Longhorn has nothing to doe with .net server.

    Longhorn will be a desktop only OS, not server. it will have a totaly new GUI powered by directx. It is a client upgrade...NOT a server upgrade. Get your crap together before you go posting your ingnorant comments.