Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system — code-named Longhorn — into the developer community, Microsoft released previews of the software toward the end of last year. The actual Longhorn operating system, the company’s next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company’s next-generation development tools code-named Whidbey are as many as two to three years from arriving, but Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chief software architect, has said this week that Longhorn will be released in 2006.
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Gates Targets 2006 for Longhorn Release
Posted by: Jay Lyman March 31, 2004 10:37 AMHoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system — code-named Longhorn — into the developer community, Microsoft released previews of the software toward the end of last year. The actual Longhorn operating system, the company’s next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company’s next-generation development tools code-named Whidbey are as many as two to three years from arriving, but Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chief software architect, has said this week that Longhorn will be released in 2006.