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Re: Windows Vista - The End?

i hear Windows Vista is going to be a problem child like ME was

Windows has only ever made ONE good OS


Windows 2005 also known as windows xp media centre edition
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Is Vista the End of Windows as We Know It?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The five-year long march to developing Windows Vista exposed just how
> | broken Microsoft's Windows-development process is. It took far too
> | long, major features were dropped along the way, and it was wrapped up
> | in more red tape than the IRS. That's why I think that Vista will be the
> | last of the "big-bang" Windows releases.
> `----
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/11/is_vista_the_end_of_windows_as.html
>
>
> Related:
>
> Life After Vista: Can Microsoft Retool for Web?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In a similar tug of war in the late 1990s, one internal faction
> | lobbied to use Microsoft's Internet browser software to radically
> | retool Windows for the Internet. But that faction lost out to a
> | more PC-centric view of the Windows mission -- an outcome that some
> | Microsoft insiders say is one reason the company fell behind in the
> | Internet services Google and others now lead.
> `----
>
> http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116459728069433263-K0zAOblcMz_2rLdWyoLZyUeAYRU_20071127.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
> http://tinyurl.com/yjngqj
>
>
> Windows Vista the last of its kind
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current,
> | monolithic form, according to Gartner.
> |
> | Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced to
> | migrate Windows to a modular architecture tied together through
> | hardware-supported virtualisation. "The current, integrated architecture
> | of Microsoft Windows is unsustainable - for enterprises and for
> | Microsoft," wrote Gartner analysts Brian Gammage, Michael Silver and
> | David Mitchell Smith.
> `----
> 
> http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=6718


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