Yukon and Whidbey are the crux of what Microsoft's been calling since last year its "Yukon wave." Waves, in Microsoft parlance, are more than just individual products. They are entire interrelated families of products.
Consequently, when a wave recedes, it drags out to sea more than just a single product. Whidbey and Yukon are entwined like seaweed strands. When one drifts, so does the other. But other Microsoft (not to mention third-party) products that were set to take advantage of Yukon's features — say, the various enterprise server products (such as BizTalk Server, Systems Management Server, etc.) — are now impacted, too.
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