“Microsoft is now developing the Windows ‘Longhorn’ server and Windows ‘Longhorn’ client in lockstep, a change from the staggered development the company was previously pursuing for its next generation version of Windows, a senior Microsoft executive said Tuesday.
‘Today, ‘Longhorn’ client, ‘Longhorn’ server are generally connected together. We’re building it in synch. That was a change. Perhaps a year ago that wasn’t our plan, but it is our plan today,’ Jim Allchin, Microsoft group vice president for platforms, said during his keynote address at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle.

Allchin updated other elements of the Windows Server roadmap during his keynote. He reaffirmed that Microsoft will deliver an update to Windows Server 2003 next year and said the 64-bit editions for extended systems will be delivered at the same time as Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1.”