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Joe Gronlund
Sat 6th Sep '03, 2:23pm
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Rumors about the likely delay of Windows Longhorn turned out to be just that as Microsoft’s Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said Friday "Longhorns development has always been on schedule and will continue to be on schedule, we have no plans to delay the Client version of Longhorn and if any delay where to arise, it certainly wouldn’t arise this early".

The rumors of the delay are suspected to have come from comments various Microsoft exec's made during recent interviews. However none of those executives mentioned any delay at all In fact, Longhorn's current track hasn't changed.

Source (http://www.asendtechnologies.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11154)
N9ne
Sat 6th Sep '03, 2:54pm
Great...we now get rumours posted on vb.com :D
qxh
Sat 6th Sep '03, 2:55pm
Great...we now get rumours posted on vb.com :DBah, go back to watching England... :p

;)
DarkDelight.net
Sat 6th Sep '03, 2:56pm
Great...we now get rumours posted on vb.com :DThat's nothing new.
vB3 was rumored to be released for... how long now? :p
N9ne
Sat 6th Sep '03, 2:59pm
Bah, go back to watching England... :p

;)
Bah, there's nothing wrong with watching my country's football team playing an important game ;)
Joe Gronlund
Sat 6th Sep '03, 3:31pm
Great...we now get rumours posted on vb.com :D


lol :D
N9ne
Sat 6th Sep '03, 4:13pm
lol :D
I'm guessing you know why longhorn is called longhorn? Since you know a lot about windows I figured I should ask, why on Earth did they call an OS longhorn?
Joe
Sat 6th Sep '03, 4:18pm
The developers in Texas named it.
BillaBongUSA
Sat 6th Sep '03, 4:48pm
Really?
Shining Arcanine
Sat 6th Sep '03, 5:02pm
I'm guessing you know why longhorn is called longhorn? Since you know a lot about windows I figured I should ask, why on Earth did they call an OS longhorn?
It is a type of cattle. Anyway, the version of windows that will suceed it is code named blackcomb.
yetdog111
Sat 6th Sep '03, 6:28pm
It is a type of cattle. Anyway, the version of windows that will suceed it is code named blackcomb.
I always thought it was named after a mountain range. I know Whistler (XP) and Blackcomb (who knows) were:

http://www.whistler-blackcomb.com/
okrogius
Sat 6th Sep '03, 9:33pm
That is correct. Whistler and Blackcomb are named after mountains somewhere in eastern part of canada (not sure on location)
Scott MacVicar
Sat 6th Sep '03, 9:37pm
canadian mountains where the MS staff do team building exercies as far as i'm aware.

Longhorn is the bar at the bottom of Whistler :)
tgillespie
Sat 6th Sep '03, 9:42pm
I am confident that I won't be upgrading now :) Texas stinks.
Vile
Sat 6th Sep '03, 9:42pm
That is correct. Whistler and Blackcomb are named after mountains somewhere in eastern part of canada (not sure on location)

Yeah, a friend of mine who works at MS says their code names are names of actual places.
BillaBongUSA
Sat 6th Sep '03, 10:16pm
I am confident that I won't be upgrading now :) Texas stinks.
Why's that?
Joe
Sat 6th Sep '03, 10:18pm
Cow dung.
Joe Gronlund
Sun 7th Sep '03, 1:03am
canadian mountains where the MS staff do team building exercies as far as i'm aware.

Longhorn is the bar at the bottom of Whistler :)
Yes it's in Whistler BC, where most of the MS devs go snowboarding.

not many actually ski.. :)
Radon3k
Sun 7th Sep '03, 4:30am
Anyway, the version of windows that will suceed it is code named blackcomb.Are you sure about that? I thought Blackcomb was going to be the server version of Longhorn...
Joe Gronlund
Sun 7th Sep '03, 12:00pm
Are you sure about that? I thought Blackcomb was going to be the server version of Longhorn...
It is.. but you wont see that till likely 2006
Lacrosse Boy
Sun 7th Sep '03, 3:40pm
Yes it's in Whistler BC, where most of the MS devs go snowboarding.

not many actually ski.. :)
Skiing is better. I just thought I'd add that, as I'm a skier. ;)
Ksilebo
Sun 7th Sep '03, 3:58pm
Heres all of MS's Codenames. Interesting.
Shining Arcanine
Mon 8th Sep '03, 7:31am
Are you sure about that? I thought Blackcomb was going to be the server version of Longhorn...
No. They are two seperate kernal versions (with blackcomb being superior). Longhorn was meant to be a desktop/server release with blackcomb as the following desktop/server release. Then they dropped Longhorn server. No word on what has become of Blackcomb desktop yet. I just know that they pushed the next generation technology set for blackcomb desktop into Longhorn. Probably to compete with linux.
kevinj
Tue 9th Sep '03, 5:45pm
I would love to beta test MS products, what does it take to beta test these products?
Shining Arcanine
Tue 9th Sep '03, 7:30pm
Signing up when they ask for Beta Testers. I had a chance to Beta test Directx 9.0 but I decided not to.
Joe Gronlund
Wed 10th Sep '03, 12:28am
Signing up when they ask for Beta Testers. I had a chance to Beta test Directx 9.0 but I decided not to.
Not exactly that easy anymore, to test internally MS prefer's 3+ yr experienced MCSE's or CCIE;s

Testing DX is a good start though for younger people, need to slower work your way up and start somewhere. Feedback and accurate beta bug feedback are the most important, not always the number of bugs, but the quality of the bug report so it can be resolved properly, of course reporting one bug isnt gonna cut it either lol.

I got scott and freddie or kier (i forget which i get them two mixed up so much) into Microsoft betaplace there currently in MS windows update beta version 4 and will also join version 5, they will likely be invited to test longhorn.
I plan on nominating them to test it,, i will be very busy but still plan on testing longhorn also....