In Las Vegas for the second annual Microsoft Management Summit, Microsoft senior vice president Brian Valentine revealed that plans for the next two Windows versions, code-named Longhorn and Blackcomb, respectively, are very much in flux. Noting that the company had "boldly" committed to shipping Longhorn as a client-only release and Blackcomb as a server-only release, Valentine said that Microsoft was reevaluating these releases, and would like ship both client and server components of each release. However, this doesn't mean that there will be a Longhorn Server release per se, though Microsoft won't rule it out. However, it's likely that Microsoft will ship some sort of Longhorn add-on pack for Windows Server 2003 instead.
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