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Allchin Defends Longhorn Decision to Microsoft Employees
On Friday, Microsoft Corp. went public with an executive decision that’s been brewing for the past couple of weeks. The company decided in order to keep Longhorn client ship dates from slipping further, it would remove the crux of Longhorn – the new Windows File System (WinFS) from the operating system. Read about Microsoft’s decision…
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Microsoft to Gut Longhorn to Make 2006 Delivery Date
Microsoft is cutting back its Longhorn client’s planned feature set so as to be able to make its current delivery targets: Beta 1 by next year and final release some time in 2006. Microsoft officially confirmed what had been leaked by developer sources late on Friday: changes to its future roadmap for the desktop version…
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Curbing Retail Shrinkage with the Help of a Shrink
In retail IT circles today, no issue generates as much concern—if not outright panic—as does security. You name it, we’re scared of it. That’s true when the topic is hackers trying to break in and steal credit card info, terrorists wanting to poison the apples, gun-toting bandits with their eyes on cash-register cash or the…
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WinFS Axed from Longhorn Client, Server
Microsoft announced on Friday, as expected, that it is cutting some of its planned Longhorn features in order to get the desktop version of the product out the door by 2006. The Windows File System (WinFS)—technology that was set to simplify information storage and retrieval—won’t make it into the final, shipping versions of Longhorn client,…
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Longhorn’s New Schedule: Winners and Losers
Microsoft’s decision on Friday to “gut” Longhorn in order to get something—really, anything—out on schedule reminds me of something that Borland founder Philippe Kahn once told me. “Shipping,” he said, “is also a feature.” He didn’t add, though he might have, that ultimately, it’s the most important one. Late Friday, Microsoft informed press and analysts…
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Impaled on the Longhorns of a Dilemma
With Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) done, it was high time for the Windows team to make a choice. It could push the delivery date out (yet again) so as to incorporate all the new features it has been promising for the past few years. Or it could scale back the feature list and…
