Eyes are on Longhorn
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft executive Jim Allchin answered definitively when reporters recently pressed him to say when the company would release the next major version of the Windows operating system.
"Sometime in the future," the Windows group vice president said.
Allchin's response, more than showing his sense of humor, underscored the uncertainty surrounding the timing of the next Windows release, code-named Longhorn. It's an issue with deep implications for Microsoft's business and for corporate users of the operating system. Microsoft has been vague on the subject. Another top Windows executive, Will Poole, said at a conference last year that Longhorn would ship sometime in 2005. But more recently, company executives have declined to be so specific.