According to an email seen by [i]Business Week[/i], it has been reported that Microsoft won’t ship an interim version of Windows, retail or otherwise, before [i]Longhorn[/i].
The leaked memos also confirm that there won’t be an XP “Second Edition”. In early March Paul Thurrot reported that “the interim XP version will ship as a new retail product that replaces existing retail boxed copies of XP and as a set of updates, called XP Reloaded, that existing XP users can install separately.” We were skeptical, having been bitten by the same XP Second Edition story two years ago. So we won’t say “told you so”; the only definite thing about Windows roadmap leakware like this is that at best it should be considered provisional, and at worst, the sort of thing that leaks when competing teams get bitchy.”
Source: Neowin
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