SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. plan to launch the next version of its Windows operating system in 2006. However they have announced that they will drop a much-touted new technology for organizing and storing data when they do so.

They recoginse the need and demand for such funstionality with Tom Button, corporate vice-president for Windows product management, explaining that at the time the company hopes to release the new Windows version, it would not be ready to include an even more advanced system for sorting, storing and finding data. Instead, it will begin testing that system about the same time it makes the versions release and make it available at an unspecified time later.

Independent analysts agree that the ability to sort, store and find data more effectively is becoming increasingly important.The technologies that Microsoft will eventually add to the operating system are expected to make these processes quicker and easier.

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