Last week, I discussed some major product releases we can expect from Microsoft in 2005, and the product list garnered several questions. As the final year before the company ships Longhorn, the next Windows release, 2005 should be a transition period without many major product releases. However, the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) caused many product updates to be pushed back, and now we're going to see a busy 2005 release schedule. This rush of product releases is entertaining for me, of course, but frustrating for those who have to plan rollouts.
In 2004, Microsoft pledged to better communicate its enterprise product release schedule. The company then proceeded to make at least two major changes to that schedule later in the year. Now, Microsoft's scatterbrained approach to enterprise product shipments is raising some serious questions with customers.
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