Microsoft says Longhorn to ship in 2006 without WinFS

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Microsoft won't ship WinFS with Longhorn

Microsoft won't ship WinFS with Longhorn 08/27/2004 05:20 PM
Microsoft today announced a significant change in plans for the next major release of Windows, code-named Longhorn. The new WinFS storage subsystem will not be part of it, as had been previously planned.

Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans
WinFS

Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans
WinFS 08/28/2004 11:15 AM
Slashdot Aug 28 2004 3:38PM GMT

WinFS Removal a Window of OpportunityThe
decision to axe WinFS from Longhorn
gives Microsoft the opportunity t

WinFS Removal a Window of OpportunityThe
decision to axe WinFS from Longhorn
gives Microsoft the opportunity t 09/19/2004 11:09 PM
eWeek Sep 20 2004 3:21AM GMT

Microsoft Corp will ship the next
version of Windows in 2006. To get
'Longhorn' shipped on time, Microsoft
had

Microsoft Corp will ship the next
version of Windows in 2006. To get
'Longhorn' shipped on time, Microsoft
had 08/29/2004 12:22 AM
Xinhua News Agency Aug 29 2004 3:43AM GMT

Longhorn in 2006: Can Microsoft Really
Pull This Off?

Longhorn in 2006: Can Microsoft Really
Pull This Off? 04/15/2005 09:53 AM
Will Microsoft be able to deliver a compelling Windows release — one which still has yet to hit Beta 1 — by next fall?

Microsoft reins in Longhorn for 2006
launch

Microsoft reins in Longhorn for 2006
launch 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
It's aiming to release the Windows update by the first half of 2006--which means scaling back some of its more ambitious plans for features.

Microsoft pencils in scaled down
Longhorn for 2006

Microsoft pencils in scaled down
Longhorn for 2006 04/13/2004 06:05 AM
Silicon.com Apr 13 2004 9:55AM GMT

Microsoft set to release Longhorn system
in 2006

Microsoft set to release Longhorn system
in 2006 08/29/2004 11:16 PM
thestar.com.my Aug 30 2004 2:43AM GMT

Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS

Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS 06/24/2005 06:55 PM

Microsoft on Friday announced its intention to fully support the RSS Web publishing standard in its next generation version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, along with plans to help application developers more easily create RSS-enabled applications for Windows.

Officials said the company is proposing its own Simple List extensions to RSS that will better allow the technology to support ordered lists of information. Presently, RSS feeds are sent and received as streams of messages with their order being determined only by the time they were sent. Microsoft's extensions are reportedly offering a way to add ordering information so RSS feeds can more intelligently handle, for instance, a Web site's list of best-selling items.

"The RSS [Simple List] extensions we are developing can allow a content publisher to enable a Web site to publish feeds that represent ordered lists of items. We will make these extensions widely available to developers through the Creative Commons [license]," said Megan Kidd, a group product manager on the Windows team.

Microsoft has already done some "baseline work at the platform level" that supports a range of basic functions that are contained in all applications that support RSS, which should help lighten their overall development effort.

"RSS feeds now come through Weblogs but it will go way beyond that. For instance, if you are at a conference and go to that Web site, subscribe to a feed that has all the conference information, you can have an RSS feed right into your calendar application like Outlook that will automatically update you on all changes being made at the conference like keynotes and sessions," Kidd said.

Some industry observers were encouraged not only by Microsoft's endorsement of the technology, but also because the software giant appears uninterested in dominating the technology and is being proactive in trying to help create commercial opportunities for other application developers.

"When Microsoft would talk about embracing and extending a technology, many would interpret that as engulfing and devouring. In this case, they seem to be really going out of their way to talk about extending but not co-opting this technology. The fact they are releasing this under the Creative Commons License, the same license that RSS is released under, is a pretty big deal in and of itself," said Michael Gartenberg, a vice president and research director at Jupiter Research.

Another upside for Microsoft, according to Gartenberg and others, is that the inclusion of RSS in Longhorn, along with the commitment to help ISVs create compatible applications, is that it builds more interest around Longhorn among developers and users, something the upcoming product needs.

"This should get developers a little more pumped up over Longhorn," Gartenberg said.

The downside about the move however, is that many smaller developers with RSS technologies will have the added pressure of having to be more innovative with their applications in order to stay ahead of much larger developers as RSS-based products become more of a commodity.

Asked about Microsoft's plans to incorporate RSS support into its upcoming Office 12 suite of desktop applications, Kidd said, "you can expect to see some functionality with Outlook," but that the company has yet to formulate any specific plans.

Microsoft will also make it easier for users to discover feeds within their browsers by illuminating icons that allow them to easily see what RSS feeds are available to them at any given moment. The company will also allow users to view the feed live from within the browser, which Kidd said is not available today.

"They will be able to actually see the feed, pick the one they want to subscribe to. We want to make it a one click experience," Kidd said.

Microsoft is expected to make the announcement Friday at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle.

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Microsoft to Gut Longhorn to Make 2006
Delivery Date

Microsoft to Gut Longhorn to Make 2006
Delivery Date 08/27/2004 01:39 PM
After the cuts, Longhorn won't look much like the early builds that Microsoft has been distributing to date. But it should run existing applications.

Microsoft scales back Longhorn for 2006
launch

Microsoft scales back Longhorn for 2006
launch 04/12/2004 04:53 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 12 2004 9:37AM GMT

Microsoft cuts advances for 2006
Longhorn release

Microsoft cuts advances for 2006
Longhorn release 08/27/2004 03:50 PM
Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it will sacrifice some key advances it had planned for Longhorn so it can deliver the successor to Windows XP in 2006.

Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS
(InfoWorld)

Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS
(InfoWorld) 06/24/2005 03:06 PM
InfoWorld - Microsoft on Friday announced its intention to fully support the RSS Web publishing standard in its next generation version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, along with plans to help application developers more easily create RSS-enabled applications for Windows.

Microsoft sets 2006 release for
"Longhorn" operating system (AFP)

Microsoft sets 2006 release for
"Longhorn" operating system (AFP) 08/27/2004 03:26 PM
AFP - Microsoft said it plans to broadly release the long-awaited update to its flagship Windows operating system, dubbed "Longhorn," in 2006.

Microsoft cuts Longhorn features to met
2006 delivery date

Microsoft cuts Longhorn features to met
2006 delivery date 08/31/2004 06:23 AM
Computer Weekly Aug 31 2004 11:12AM GMT

Microsoft to drop storage system from
Longhorn to meet 2006 date

Microsoft to drop storage system from
Longhorn to meet 2006 date 09/06/2004 09:42 PM
Computer Weekly Sep 7 2004 1:18AM GMT

Longhorn To Ship One Year After Tiger;
Microsoft Dismiss

Longhorn To Ship One Year After Tiger;
Microsoft Dismiss 04/08/2005 04:55 AM
Mac Observer Apr 8 2005 8:00AM GMT

The WinFS Files: Understanding WinFS by
Exploring the WinFS Type System

The WinFS Files: Understanding WinFS by
Exploring the WinFS Type System 07/17/2004 06:44 AM
This column explores the type system used when programming the WinFS platform. Sample code shows you how to work with the WinFS type system using the WinFS API.

"Microsoft Announces 2006 Target Date
for Broad Availability Of Windows
Longhorn Client Operating System"

"Microsoft Announces 2006 Target Date
for Broad Availability Of Windows
Longhorn Client Operating System" 08/28/2004 02:54 AM

Microsoft Announces 2006 Target Date for
Broad Availability Of Windows "Longhorn"
Client Operating System

Microsoft Announces 2006 Target Date for
Broad Availability Of Windows "Longhorn"
Client Operating System 08/28/2004 01:07 AM
Windows WinFX Developer Technologies Will Be Made Available For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

No More WinFS in Longhorn

No More WinFS in Longhorn 05/14/2004 08:55 PM

Longhorn goes to pieces: WinFS is out of Longhorn. That's gotta hurt. They've been talking about this as the centerpiece of the release.

Advanced search features that Gates has termed the "Holy Grail" of Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, won't be fully in place until 2009, Bob Muglia, the senior vice president in charge of Windows server development, told CNET News.com.

The technology, called WinFS, is an add-on the Windows file system that Microsoft says will make it easier for users to find data such as documents, e-mail messages and multimedia files — no matter what their format — on local PCs and across the network.

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No WinFS for Longhorn

No WinFS for Longhorn 08/28/2004 09:33 AM
Microsoft did, indeed, cut WinFS from Longhorn (both client and server). At least Avalon is still in there.

longhorn loses WinFS

longhorn loses WinFS 05/14/2004 07:24 PM
perhaps microsoft will never actually get to Cairo

Longhorn, WinFS still just out of reach

Longhorn, WinFS still just out of reach 09/08/2004 05:34 AM
Last week, the press wires were all aglow over announcements about Longhorn, the next version of the Windows desktop operating system. There were two prongs to the news. First, Microsoft announced that really, definitely, it’s-a-done-deal, Longhorn will ship in 2006. Secondly, to make the ship date, Longhorn features would be cut - especially the much-heralded new file system, WinFS.

WinFS delayed even beyond Longhorn
Server

WinFS delayed even beyond Longhorn
Server 12/19/2004 03:46 PM
WinFS has been delayed again, possibly four or more years from now, as Server BP Bob Muglia says WinFS won't accompany Longhorn Server.

Questions about Longhorn, part 1: WinFS

Questions about Longhorn, part 1: WinFS 06/02/2004 01:38 PM
Over the next few days I want to explore a series of questions about the "pillars" of Longhorn -- WinFS, Avalon, and Indigo. Last fall, when this stuff was first announced, I reacted with an entry entitled Replace and Defend. I argued then that Longhorn reinvents quite a few wheels. Nobody can blame Microsoft for seeking new ways to keep customers locked into its Windows franchise. That's a business strategy that every rational player must pursue, in one way or another. In chapter 6 of Information Rules, entitled Managing Lock-In, Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian write:

The great fortunes of the information age lie in the hands of companies that have successfully established proprietary architectures that are used by a large installed base of locked-in customers. And many of the biggest headaches of the information age are visited upon companies that are locked into information systems that are inferior, orphaned, or monopolistically supplied.

There's no question that Longhorn aims for lock-in -- it has to. But what is the nature of the bargain that's being offered? What kinds of benefits will it yield? And what kinds of headaches will accompany those benefits? ...

WinOE Likely To Join Indigo, WinFS In
Longhorn

WinOE Likely To Join Indigo, WinFS In
Longhorn 05/14/2004 04:52 AM

Spotlight on the Longhorn SDK: WinFS
Schema Overview

Spotlight on the Longhorn SDK: WinFS
Schema Overview 05/24/2004 09:17 AM
In the WinHEC build of Longhorn the schema types that ship in the WinFS System.Storage namespace have changed since the PDC release. You can get an overview of these "everyday" types in the Longhorn SDK.

Questions about Longhorn, part 2: WinFS
and semantics

Questions about Longhorn, part 2: WinFS
and semantics 06/07/2004 03:51 PM
In the first installment of this series of questions about Longhorn, I concluded that the compelling benefit of WinFS must lie in the realm of "organizing stuff" rather than just "finding stuff" -- else why not just leverage existing and well-understood relational, free-text, and XML search methods? And I posited that the signature feature of WinFS -- "relationships" -- must be powerful enough to justify the creation of a proprietary new storage model that will enable (but also require) new applications and developer skills. Admittedly my "finding versus organizing" distinction was a bit of a cheat, since finding depends sensitively on prior organization. Except when it doesn't: brute-force free-text search routinely trumps navigation and structured search. But OK, we've all got to hope that better organization, someday, will level the playing field. ...

WinFS Axed From Longhorn Client and
Server

WinFS Axed From Longhorn Client and
Server 08/27/2004 05:18 PM
Microsoft confirms developer buzz that its next-gen storage subsystem won't make it into its 2006 client and 2007 server Windows releases.

WinFS StoreSpy v0.8 for the WinHEC 2004
Longhorn Build

WinFS StoreSpy v0.8 for the WinHEC 2004
Longhorn Build 05/19/2004 11:41 PM
WinFS Store Spy is an Explorer-like tool to browse WinFS. It offers flexible ways for you to quickly find your stuff and navigate the store. You can inspect Item, Relationship (all 3 types), Extension, Nested Element, and MultiSet properties.

MSDN TV: WinFS Overview - Significant
New Storage Innovation for Longhorn

MSDN TV: WinFS Overview - Significant
New Storage Innovation for Longhorn 12/12/2003 05:31 PM
Quentin Clark provides an overview of WinFS, including what benefits it produces, what it is, and how it's put together. This episode introduces WinFS as a basis for more detailed presentations.

Next Version of Windows for PC's to Ship
in 2006

Next Version of Windows for PC's to Ship
in 2006 08/27/2004 09:08 PM
To meet its timetable, Microsoft has scaled back its technological ambitions for the product, code-named Longhorn.

It's Official: Longhorn 2006

It's Official: Longhorn 2006 08/27/2004 03:30 PM
Microsoft makes deep cuts in features to get its next major release of Windows on the road.

Only kidding? MS may ship Longhorn
server after all

Only kidding? MS may ship Longhorn
server after all 03/20/2003 10:46 AM
Maybe less of an about face than it looks

Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP

Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP 03/14/2005 04:04 PM
OK, I am going to surprise many of you out there and give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt regarding the statement that they are re-thinking the release of WinFS for XP. Why? Think about it? Redoing an OS with a whole new file system midstream? That is just borrowing trouble! Still, I would encourage them to make the move for Longhorn at least as NTFS is really getting old….

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New Microsoft Exchange due out in 2006

New Microsoft Exchange due out in 2006 03/30/2005 05:19 PM
The next version of Microsoft's Exchange Server--software used to manage e-mail, contact lists and calendars--will arrive in 2006, according to a company executive.

Andy Lees, corporate vice president of marketing for Microsoft's server and tools business, revealed the ship date Tuesday. Previously, the Redmond, Wash.-based software company had said the software would arrive in 2006 or 2007. The software, currently called Exchange Server 12, will incorporate new features to handle voice mail and faxes. The current version of Exchange Server was released in 2003. It's a dominant program in the market, but it faces competition from products sold by IBM, Novell, Sun Microsystems and others.

News source: C|Net News.com

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Microsoft extends NT support through end
of 2006

Microsoft extends NT support through end
of 2006 12/24/2004 01:11 PM
Microsoft is extending custom support for the Windows NT platform - for a fee - beyond its scheduled ending date of Dec. 31, 2004.

Microsoft Targets 2006 for Next Windows
(Reuters)

Microsoft Targets 2006 for Next Windows
(Reuters) 08/27/2004 05:12 PM
Reuters - The next version of the Windows operating system, Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) flagship product, will ship in 2006, the world's largest software maker said on Friday.
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