Microsoft plans to go 'modular' with Longhorn
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft is promising a slew of new features and functionality in its Longhorn client and server releases. But the Redmond software vendor has some other big changes on tap for Longhorn, in terms of how the operating system will be built and deployed.
Company officials have been talking for more than a year about plans to make Longhorn more "modular." In the past two weeks, however, Microsoft execs have shed more light on exactly what this means.