For many companies, buying Microsoft products is more a duty than a choice. That sense of duty will be tested as Microsoft prepares to launch Longhorn, its next-generation operating system, and with it the next generation of server and productivity applications.
We talked with several Microsoft executives and heard a great deal about the company's obligation to its customers and how that responsibility will be met through the products introduced around Longhorn. The OS is scheduled to ship for workstations in the 2006 holiday period, with the server software to follow in early 2007.
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