The Grand Old Duke of York is clearly in charge of Microsoft's operating systems
roadmaps for, having marched Longhorn up to the top of a distant (2005, said his
Billness) hill earlier this year, he has now marched it straight back down again.
Longhorn, the next version of Windows XP, will not after all be a 2005 product,
but will quite possibly be a next year product after all.
Which would suggest it's been pulled out of the 'hard megaproject' category (never
mind, Bill already got
the
glowing write-up in Fortune) and moved over into the 'easy-ish rev' one. This
possible revelation comes in
Mary-Jo's
latest in eWeek, but you'll have to parse the Delphic quotes to figure out the
signposts.
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