He almost says Longhorn will ship in 2006, but backs off, saying, "Longhorn is not a date-driven release." Analysts aren't convinced. March 2004: Gates says Microsoft will ship an alpha of Longhorn to developers and partners later in 2004. October 2003: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says that Longhorn does not have a firm release date and adds, "Longhorn could be 2005 or 2006." Analysts don't buy it and say 2006 is a safer bet. June 2003: Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Microsoft's server platform division, says at TechEd 2003 that Longhorn will ship sometime in 2005. Microsoft says it expects Longhorn to ship in late 2002 or early 2003, as an interim step to a more comprehensive operating system overhaul called Blackcomb (which is now called Vienna, and will be the next release of Windows after Vista).Īpril 2002: Microsoft executive Jim Allchin says at the WinHEC conference that Longhorn won't ship until the second half of 2004. June 2001: Microsoft begins talking publicly about an operating system it calls Longhorn. Vista's release has been put off more times than Microsoft would like to admit.
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