Microsoft's .Net Server release slips into 2003
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Software giant Microsoft has indicated that its Windows .Net Server will not be released until 2003 - putting it a year or more behind schedule.
2 September 2002 Software giant Microsoft has indicated that its Windows .Net Server will not be released until 2003 - putting it a year or more behind schedule - after renaming the product Windows .Net Server 2003.
This is despite Microsoft's repeated assurances that .Net Server - which will include features to enable the deployment of web services, the new standards-based application approach programming approach for locating, composing and delivering software as services over the Internet - would be available before the end of 2002.
However, Microsoft has denied that its deadlines have slipped. In a statement sent by email at the end of August, it said that "nothing had changed" and that its plans to deliver .Net Server were still on track.
Microsoft also added that the addition of 2003 to its product name did not constitute a name change and is simply a "minor versioning identifier", although the company has refused to comment on when the product will actually be available.
This is Microsoft's latest bout of vacillation over .Net Server. The product was originally expected to be released in the first half of this year, but in March this was pushed back to the second-half of 2002. Company executives such as Peter Bell, business strategy manager at Microsoft's UK .Net division, have previously said that .Net Server would be released before the end of 2002.
In July 2001, Microsoft started offering customers a pre-release version of .Net Server. A second beta test version is planned late in 2002.
