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Windows Server Update Will Pre-empt Longhorn
News If they kept the next Windows Server release until after Longhorn, that would put the next release in 2007 or 2008, even if Longhorn came out in 2006," Helm said. Microsoft acknowledged that it needs an update to its server OS at some point so that...
[March 8, 2004, 8:10]
Test Version Of .Net Server On Tap
News By dropping Longhorn Server, Microsoft also may have prevented a large number of Windows 2000 Server holdouts, who might have skipped .Net Server. Days earlier, the company scrapped Longhorn Server, the successor to .Net Server, essentially pushing...
[December 5, 2002, 14:08]
Microsoft Delays Server OS Plans
News A Microsoft representative on Tuesday confirmed that the next release of the company's server software "would follow the release of Windows.Net Server," yet essentially skip a generation to focus on the next version of Windows, code-named...
[November 13, 2002, 14:39]
.Net Server: Three Delays A Charm?
News The two server release changes, in concert with a potential delay for Windows XP's successor -- code-named Longhorn Desktop -- indicate major tweaking to Microsoft's server roadmap. The news comes less than a week after Microsoft scrapped delivery...
[November 18, 2002, 15:56]
Microsoft Targets Java Rivals
News By making the development of Web services applications with Microsoft tools easier, the company hopes to drive demand for its forthcoming Longhorn releases of Windows and server software. Microsoft's long-term strategy with Longhorn server -- which...
[August 8, 2003, 11:15]
Microsoft Lays Groundwork For Longhorn
News Microsoft plans to introduce versions of Visual Studio.Net that can create applications for both the desktop and the server editions of Longhorn. Similarly, a later Visual Studio.Net release, code-named Orcas, will be tuned specifically for...
[July 30, 2003, 8:50]
.Net Gets P2P Boost
News Analysts point to a key role that XDegrees could play in several of Microsoft's upcoming products as part of its .Net software plan -- specifically, in a new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. One of the primary goals for the Longhorn...
[September 16, 2002, 11:28]
Longhorn Lowdown: What's Up?
News First, you're probably going to see WinFS ship at the same time as Longhorn Server, which will probably be named Windows Server 2007. So Microsoft decided that the best course of action would be to backport many of the features in Avalon Longhorn...
[November 17, 2004, 13:50]
Start-up Aims At Beating MS And Macromedia To Next-gen Web Apps
News While some companies are already building XAML applications that run with Microsoft's .Net client, the proprietary XML dialect is meant for use with Microsoft's Longhorn operating system. If we get the .Net thing running, you'd be able to write a...
[November 19, 2004, 14:40]
Learning WCF: Hello Indigo
White Papers NET 3.0 relies on the .NET Framework 2.0 (.NET 2.0) and is supported on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows "Longhorn" Server platforms. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), formerly code-named "Indigo," is a new...
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
Windows 6.0/Longhorn: An Early Look review
Reviews The release of Windows 6.0 Server should follow shortly after Longhorn, under the codename Blackcomb. Because the release of the server version must follow the desktop version in a definable time frame, it's possible that the launch date for...
[February 21, 2003, 15:41]
Latest VisualStudio.Net Tools Revealed
News Further out, Microsoft will release a third new version of Visual Studio.Net to coincide with a the 2004 release of a new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, that will use Yukon's data-storage capability.
[August 22, 2002, 13:47]
Microsoft Hones .Net Tools For Battle
News Further out, Microsoft will release a third new version of Visual Studio.Net to coincide with a the 2004 release of a new version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," that will use Yukon's data storage capability.
[July 26, 2002, 8:36]
The Windows Vista Timeline
News Microsoft has not yet shipped Windows .NET Server, but that has not stopped senior executives from publicly describing a future Windows release, code-named Longhorn. First reported by eWeek, Longhorn will not contain the .NET-centric core the...
[May 19, 2006, 13:20]
Microsoft Plans First Peek At Longhorn For October
News In his Web log, Brad Abrams, a lead programme manager involved with Microsoft's .Net initiative, said that developers will walk away with Longhorn code. As for the server version of Longhorn, Microsoft has said little thus far.
[August 26, 2003, 11:40]
Microsoft Seeks To Smooth Longhorn Adoption
News Microsoft will give attendees an early version of Longhorn, as well as editions of its Visual Studio.Net and SQL Server databases, which are both due to be completed in the second half of 2004. The Longhorn edition of Microsoft's Windows operating...
[October 15, 2003, 15:55]
Microsoft Releases New Longhorn Server Build
News Microsoft released Beta 2 versions of Windows Vista and Longhorn Server at the same time in May, but Longhorn isn't due until late 2007. Microsoft has released a refresh to Longhorn Server Beta 2, which appeared in May, offering bugfixes and...
[September 13, 2006, 18:25]
Microsoft Pledges £3.3bn To R&D
News Along with Longhorn will come new releases of Office, Visual Studio.Net , Exchange, MSN and other business software, Gates said. The next major release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, is in development, Gates said.
[July 26, 2002, 7:32]
Engineers Use Microsoft Specs To Pre-empt Avalon
News Colton, Xamlon's CEO, had the idea to start the firm last November, after Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, at which Microsoft released a flood of technical information about the forthcoming Longhorn release of Windows and related...
[October 5, 2004, 9:30]
Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 review
Reviews Moreover, with Exchange 2007 likely to ship before the next Windows Server release (Longhorn), early adopters face the possibility of having to upgrade their servers twice in order to run the new software.
[August 23, 2006, 13:15]
