__/ [ Rex Ballard ] on Tuesday 13 February 2007 03:17 \__
> Well, It's official, Vista must be a total Bomb!!!
>
> After nearly 6 years of waiting for "Longhorn" which turned into a
> Steer, then was renamed "Vista" and turned out to be a memory hogging
> "Mirage" and a CFO's "Eye-sore", Microsoft has already started the
> vaporware machine in hopes of preventing mass defections to Mac and
> Linux.
>
> I think this is a new record for Microsoft. They waited almost 3
> months to announce "Chicago" when NT 3.1 bombed. About 2 months to
> announce "XP" after the failure of Windows ME. And now we have
> "Vienna" after only 2 weeks of Vista which has gotten the most
> negative reviews of any Microsoft product since MS-DOS 6.0.
>
>
http://www.channelweb.com/nl/execbriefing/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=197005177
> <quote>
> The retail version of Windows Vista is less than a month old, but
> already Microsoft is talking up plans for Vienna -- its next big
> operating system.
>
> Microsoft customers and business partners should expect to have Vienna
> in their hands in two to two-and-a-half years, said Ben Fathi, VP of
> development in Microsoft's operating system group, according to a
> story published Friday by the IDG News Service. But what will be
> included is still very much an open question.
> </quote>
>
> Let's see, if Longhorn was supposed to take 2 years and took 4, that
> would put Vienna sausage at something like 5 years, meaning that we
> might see something almost as good as Linux is today - 5-7 years?
> Possibly by 2012?
>
> And by then, how much wider will Linux/Unix have widened the gap?
Have a look at their plans for hypervisors in Vienna. I would like to hear
what you make out of it.
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