Microsoft Sees '06 Launch of 'Longhorn' Windows Upgrade
Updated from 2:56 p.m. EDT
Microsoft (MSFT Quote) on Friday made official its plans to release its next Windows upgrade in 2006, although the software will be missing one of its key features.
Microsoft had previously said that the operating system update, code-named "Longhorn," would include a new filing system that would make it easier for users to search their hard drives. But the company said on Friday that the technology, dubbed "WinFS," won't be ready by the time the company releases Longhorn.
The update of Microsoft's OS "is not going to contain one of the more anticipated changes, the file system, and they've been pushing that as a major change. Certainly it won't be what they had been initially promising," said Alan Davis, an analyst for McAdams Wright Ragen. ...
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