Microsoft: Vista is a compromise, a replacement is coming in 2009
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| Speaking at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, Ben Fathi,
| corporate vice president of development of Microsoft?s Windows
| Core Operating System Division, said the company didn?t have the
| time to make all the significant improvements it wanted to
| include in Vista.
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| The original plans for Vista included a reinvented user interface
| and yet another new file system. However, Microsoft was distracted
| by XP Service Pack 2 (XP SP2) due to all the vulnerabilities in the
| original version of Windows XP, and could not devote the
| engineering resources required to develop the new features.
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| [...]
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| The takeaway from this is that Microsoft wanted Vista to be more
| than it is (funny, they don?t mention that in the PR or
| advertising), and that the Vista we should have had (if not for
| the security flaws in Windows XP) is probably two-and-a-half
| years away.
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| You may remember that Microsoft launched a compromised,
| short-lived, dog of an operating system, called Windows Me,
| in September 2000. It was replaced by Windows XP in October 2001.
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/02/11/microsoft-vista-is-a-compromise-a-replacement-is-coming-in-2009/
Related:
Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
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| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
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