Re: Longhorn and Vista relation

Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
| The OP was kind of correct.
| Vista is the name of the client.
| The server version is still referred to as Longhorn since the final name
| has not yet been determined.
|
| Currently if you say Vista, you are referring to the client and not the
| Server.
| If you say Longhorn, it is assumed you are referring to the Server since
| that is the way Microsoft distinguishes the two.
|
|
| "Key Pounder" <key@pounder.anon> wrote in message
| news:OYYJAHeXGHA.3492@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
|| No. "Longhorn" was the 'internal' code name for the operating system that
|| has become Windows Vista. Microsoft gives the operating systems it is
|| working on (as well as other software projects) code names by which they
|| refer to them. Later, when they've decided upon a name under which the
|| operating system (or other product) is to be marketed, the code name is
|| dropped for the market name.
||
|| For example, back in '93 or '95, the project that was to become Windows
|| 95 was called "Chicago".
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In other words, two related projects, one codename.

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