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Slowing down your horses

Now that the dates for Whidbey and Yukon have slipped again (Visual Studio 2004 is now Visual Studio 2005, and VS2005 is now VS2006 or VS2007!), maybe we'll see less madness about all the fabulous novelties in Whidbey, Yukon and Longhorn. Looks like we won't be deploying on Longhorn before 2009. That's 5 (FIVE) years from now. Unless you live in the future, maybe you'd better focus on the now more than on the cool new upcoming features...

Update: the title of this post should probably be "Slowing down your white horses" :-)

5 Comments

  • Orcas = VS.NET for Longhorn You'll probably see both in 2007.

  • I am kind of surprised at the 'slipped' stuff...I was always told to expect the first Beta of Whidbey in June 2004 - that date seems to be what's still being said. With that in mind and with past Betas records, a year until gold release would be pretty normal. To be honest I'd rather wait until it was totally complete instead of the issues we had with .NET 1.0 / VS.NET 2002 - which weren't really final versions.

    I'd be surprised if 1. Longhorn wasn't out way before 2009 and 2. If a MAJOR update to XP / Windows Server 2003 wasn't made by then (server have tended to be on a 3 year update cycle for the past few years...)

  • Who care if BETA still on time? Delay is eggs on Microsoft face, and like Fabrice said - lesson for all those who only can talk of 'Whidbey'

  • No doubt Longhorn will be released before 2009 (probably 2007). But don't forget that it will take at least two years before it gets adopted and deployed by clients.

  • I second that motion! Most of us have a responsibility to our clients which would make it irresponsible to spend our days reading about something that might be a feature in a release that might happen years from now.

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