Sam blogs about how Windows 2k3 is getting lost because of the buzz surrounding Longhorn, which as many people point out, doesn't ship until maybe 2005 (6?). I think I know why this is happening.
If you don't know it yet, Win2k3 is great! I'll never switch back to an old Win2K server, but I think the reason why people are buzzing about Longhorn is because it's the next thing.
For most of us, we've been using Win2K3 for months (maybe up to a year or more), due to its fairly long beta cycle. Most of us have been testing it (e.g. playing with the new features) for so long that when it officially shiped it was kind of anti-climatic.
So whats next on the OS horizon? Longhorn. Naturally being the tech geeks that developers tend to be, a lot of us are putting our focus on it.
I'm not trying to deminish the importance of Win2k3, I'm just excited about the next round of Windows OS technology.