A Shorter Longhorn for Microsoft

The signs of trouble surrounding Microsoft's massive Longhorn development project have been building for months. But on Aug. 27 the software giant bowed to the inevitable. Rather than accept another long delay in the next version of Windows, Microsoft announced that the new operating system would be released by the second half of 2006, but in attenuated form. [TechNewsWorld]

'-- The challenge for Microsoft will be to create a compelling case for going to Longhorn now that one of its most interesting features has been removed. But the marketing folks in Redmond, Wash., have a good two years to figure that one out. --'

Expect tons of FUD and other nonsense in the next couple of years designed to round up users into the Shorthorn corral.

...John