Microsoft (Quote, Company Info) may still be aiming for a 2005 delivery of Longhorn, the next iteration of the Windows operating system, but one analyst says don't hold your breath. Joe Wilcox, lead Microsoft analyst for Jupiter Research (whose parent company also owns this Web site) said Microsoft's efforts to align all of its products with the Longhorn operating system -- and its new Windows Future Storage (WinFS) file system -- will force it to push public release of the OS back to 2006.
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