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How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn - (business week article)

I just saw this business week article being discused on slashdot and thought it illustrates that difficult decisions are starting to made around Longhorn. In other words what features are going to be in the product and which ones will be left out. This is good news as means it will possible to start looking again at the PDC stuff and deciding which bits are worth learning. The trouble about the article is that really does not tell you which bits are being dropped just some vague comments about WinFS.
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Update: Thanks Drew, it looks like I made the mistake of reading the Business Week article and assuming it was reporting news. It seems like another piece of FUD

Comments

TrackBack said:

LSN WebLog &raquo; RE: Longhorn FUD?
# April 9, 2004 11:24 AM

Drew Marsh said:

Ugh, beware the FUD. We were just discussing this over on the Wintech-OT mailing list. Read my response here[1]. Basically, you need to read the fine print in this article because they're only talking about not having WinFS on the server side which we've known since the PDC.

-Drew

[1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/win_tech_off_topic/message/28314
# April 9, 2004 1:26 PM

TrackBack said:

The big news of the day is that Microsoft is scaling down Longhorn (via Slashdot; more info at Microsoft Monitor, Microsoft Watch, CNET, and the Scobelizer). While I half expected something like this to happen (as much as I hoped...
# April 9, 2004 4:16 PM
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