Get it out the door

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They talked about leaving some things out before. But if the article you link to correct they are really gutting it, removing almost all of the architecure advances to get it out the door in 2006.

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if they move it up to 2005 considering the degree of gutting they are doing. They remove most of the architecture improvements, and end up with XP+1, but it will be something they can get out in a resonable time frame. And that might be their goal here, faced with a choice between removing the advanced stuff and pushing the release date back into 2007, they went with the first option.

It had reached the point that it was starting to hurt MS that they havn't had a major OS release since XP. It was looking like Linux was moving forward while MS treaded water. And their big customers are getting angry that they had paid for expensive support and upgrade contracts on the OS, and MS wasn't providing any.

Jay

The only thing they really seem to be "gutting" is WinFS, by pushing it back (at least) a year to coincide with Longhorn Server. This, IMHO is a good thing, as I think WinFS will be much more useful across a network and with shared WinFS stores.

It looks like Avalon (new vector based graphics/UI system) will be backported to XP so application developers can target an increased (ie: existing) install base with the new technology.

I think Indigo (networking and web services stuff) was already meant to be backported, even to Windows 2000. It might even be released before Longhorn.

I'm sure there will be more casualties as the ship date draws nearer, but excepting the WinFS delay, I'm liking their new plan better so far.

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