Developers shrug off Longhorn delay rumors
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"To some extent, Microsoft enterprise customers and partners -- ISVs [and] system integrators -- have come to view Microsoft's road maps with a degree of skepticism and, therefore, will build an element of contingency into their planning," Neil Macehiter, research director at Ovum, told the E-Commerce Times.
Last October, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates unveiled an early technical preview of Longhorn -- the planned next-generation Windows operating system -- to attendees at the Redmond, Washington-based company's Professional Developers Conference.