Speaking at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo 2004 in Orlando, Florida on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined new security initiatives, some of which would make it into a pre-Longhorn 'Release 2' for Windows, next year.
He described Longhorn as a 'wave' of technologies, rather than a single product, in line with a change in company strategy from 'being completely vision-driven to saying now let's decide what we're going to ship in this date, and then what we'll ship beyond that'.
And so what won't be shipping in the first 2006 release of Longhorn will be the WinFS filesystem, as will perhaps some of the more advanced security features. But other security features will ship ahead of Longhorn: 'We're going to stage some of this stuff out with our Release 2 next year,' he said.
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