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Microsoft Puts Date On Longhorn Server
by bucy at 11:17 am EDT, May 17, 2004

] After months of waffling, Microsoft clarified plans for
] future versions of Windows Server, pegging 2007 as the
] target for a server version of the company's
] next-generation operating system, known as Longhorn. A
] client version of Longhorn should come six to 12 months
] before Longhorn server, but company officials stopped
] short of saying the client would arrive in 2006.

This is waaaay late. About 10 years ago, they were way late on
Win95, then codenamed Chicago. The big difference is back then,
they weren't staring down the barrel of open-source software
gearing up to take the desktop.

M$ and OSS in conjunction have set the bar exceedingly high for
Longhorn. It must be better enough than older Windows to be worth
the upgrade (hardware as well as software!) and better enough
than GNOME/KDE to keep people from switching to OSS for good.

RE: Microsoft Puts Date On Longhorn Server
by Jeremy at 10:01 pm EDT, May 17, 2004

bucy wrote:
] M$ and OSS in conjunction have set the bar exceedingly high for
] Longhorn. It must be better enough than older Windows to be worth
] the upgrade (hardware as well as software!) and better enough
] than GNOME/KDE to keep people from switching to OSS for good.

I'll agree with you on the question of upgrade-worthiness. But, honestly, how many people would really consider switching to Gnome? Is that even realistic? I think more people are "switching" to OS X than to Gnome, and even that is a relatively small group operating at the margins.

Recently I read an article in a trade magazine in which the columnist lamented the fact that, despite his highest of high hopes, every new release of Gnome has in fact turned out to be worse than the previous version. It just keeps getting worse, he said.

Microsoft has more to lose to OSS on the server side, where it has never enjoyed the same dominance as in the desktop space. There, it is things like Apache and Oracle on Linux that challenge Microsoft.