eMKa schrijft: "ZDnet.com meldt dat Microsoft is afgeweken van de oorspronkelijke plannen om Blackcomb de opvolger te laten worden van XP. Microsoft heeft bekend gemaakt een nieuw OS aan zijn planning toe te hebben gevoegd met de codenaam Longhorn. Deze zou na XP en voor Blackcomb verschijnen. Onafhankelijke uitspraken in het recente verleden van Bill Gates en van een Microsoft woordvoerder maken duidelijk dat het bedrijf er zelf nog niet helemaal uit is.":
Jim Allchin, group vice president of Microsoft's platform group, confirmed to eWEEK on Monday that planning for a next-version operating system started in May. But that release will not be Blackcomb.
"We haven't settled on anything yet," Allchin said via e-mail. "We have used several code names for thinking about this. Longhorn was one of the names -- there are others. Nothing is final. This is just normal planning that started back in May as we prepare for completing Windows XP." A Microsoft spokesman also told eWEEK that "I have also always understood that there would be an interim version of the operating system between XP and Blackcomb." People close to Microsoft also believed that Blackcomb would be the first true ".Net version" of Windows. But the Microsoft spokesman said it had not yet been decided which version of the operating system would be truly .Net-centric.
[...] Another reason for the delay could be that "perhaps they are working on a scaled-down version of Windows XP, which will have less things bundled. They could be preparing an operating system that will address the possible requirements of a negotiated settlement with the government and states in the antitrust case," he said.
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