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Windows "Longhorn" is the next major desktop Windows release, which will
follow Windows XP; there is also a minor Windows Server revision that will
ship in the Longhorn wave.
Originally expected to be a fairly minor upgrade,
Windows Longhorn will now include a number of new features including a
revised task-based (or "iterative") user interface, an extensible,
dock-like, Sidebar, and a SQL Server 2003-based storage engine called WinFS
(Windows Future Storage).
Microsoft said that Longhorn would be a
desktop-only release in November, 2002, when the company told me that,
"Customer requirements dictate our release strategies and timing for Windows
products. Customers have asked that we map our server releases more closely
to how they can consume and implement advances and innovations we deliver.
Given the deployment cycles and budgeting that customers work through, and
given the significant customer interest in our upcoming release of Windows
Server 2003, we have determined that another major release of Windows Server
in the Longhorn client timeframe does not meet the needs of most of our
customers." However, those plans were up in the air until mid-2003, when the
company revealed, finally, that it would indeed ship a Longhorn Server
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