“The Windows Vista project began life in 2001 as Codename
Longhorn and was originally planned to be an interim 2003 release
between Windows XP and the next major Windows OS. Microsoft
developers kept adding features to Longhorn that were slated for
the major OS thereby delaying the project and prompting Microsoft
to scrap the current code and start fresh with the Windows Server
2003 codebase. Microsoft ambitiously hoped to add much touted new
features like a new WinFS file system based on a relational
database and the Next Generation Secure Code Base (NBSCB) but these
features were later dropped. After 5 years of development, delays
and dropped features, Longhorn became what we now know as Windows
Vista. Currently, it’s planned for a 1Q 2007 release date for the
general public…”
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