What's New on the Windows Roadmap?

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration and content management. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s technology... more

Major changes to the Windows roadmap since our last published issue (June 2004) include the following:

Windows Server 2003 SP1, a release candidate as of Jan. 2005, has been delayed to the first half of 2005 (from the second half of 2004)
Windows support for the x86-64 architecture has been delayed to the first half of 2005; the architecture is used in AMD 64-bit chips and will appear in some new Intel chips as well
Windows XP support for the IA-64 (Itanium) 64-bit processor architecture has been cancelled, although support will still be available through some PC manufacturers
A Compute Cluster Edition of Windows Server, planned for 2005, will support clusters of servers running high-performance computing applications
Some features originally planned for Windows Server 2003 R2 in late 2005 have been postponed to Windows Longhorn Server in 2007; they include the Network Access Protection system for “quarantining” devices when they attach to a corporate LAN.
Some Windows Longhorn features

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