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[News] [Rival] There's Bad Vista and There's Dead Vista (Longhorn)

The Windows we never got: users get to work programming "Longhorn Reloaded"

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| And even if resurrecting Longhorn proves to be technically possible,
| will Microsoft let it live? The company has yet to let the dogs of
| law loose on the "Lite" Brigade, perhaps reasoning that it's better
| to turn a blind eye and allow customers to use a pared-down version
| of Windows than lose them to Linux.
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http://apcmag.com/6224/the_windows_we_never_saw

There's more than one way to reload Longhorn

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| The folks over at Joejoe.org aren't the only ones with "Longhorn"
| nostalgia.
| 
| Enthusiasts over at the AeroXperience.org site also are looking to
| bring back Longhorn, a k a, the precursor to the Windows Vista 
| release that Microsoft launched in January 2007.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=479

The failure of Longhorn, which actually /did/ have some new features with
essence (unlike Vista) may be the greatest turning point in favour of Linux.


Related:

Windows 'Longhorn' Resurrected and Available for Download

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| Microsoft has so far failed to react to the project officially, but
| the Redmond Company did state that the end users license agreement for
| the beta build of Longhorn does not allow users to modify and 
| redistribute the code. 
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Longhorn-Resurrected-and-Available-for-Download-55624.shtml


Enthusiasts progress with plans to resurrect Windows 'Longhorn'

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| For the record, Microsoft officials never claimed Longhorn, the 
| release of Windows now known as Vista, was cancelled. Instead, 
| Microsoft execs said they "reset" their plans for Longhorn in 2004
| by decided to cut the Windows File System (WinFS) feature from the
| product and to use the Windows Server 2003 kernel as the core
| platform. But a number of developers and industry watchers have
| said they considered Vista to be a far cry from the operating 
| system Microsoft originally demonsrated and described earlier
| this decade.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=471


A history of Microsoft Windows - the inside story exposed 

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| 2004: (...)
| THE MANAGEMENT: "What do you mean it still doesn't work? Try
| harder!"
| 
| 2005: (...)
| "MAKE IT WORK! FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAKE IT WORK! Well, throw it away
| and use the server version then, that seems all right. Look, they
| won't know the difference, drop the database stuff, nobody remembers
| what we said in 1995 now! That was ten years ago! "Apple has what?
| 3D acceleration? So, we have DirectX. What, in the desktop? Really?
| What, even Stallman's beardie-weirdies have it? Oh hell. Right, you
| lot, make it look like this!"
| 
| 2006: Windows Vista
| THE MANAGEMENT: "Look, if we trickle it out to those mugs, I mean,
| valued customers who've already paid, we can say we released it this
| year and it'll buy us some more time..."
| 
| 2007: No, really Windows Vista, honest
| MARKETING DEPT: "Never mind the features, look at it! Isn't it shiny?
| Yes! Pretty!" 
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37962


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.
| 
| 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


MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
Developers

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| "With Alchin retiring, MarkL and MarkZ, two of the most talented
| architects in MS already having left, the picture gets really
| ugly for the Windows division," my friend claimed, and the BV's
| core team members, Ian McDonald, Jack Mayo, Todd Wanke, Clyde
| Rodriguez and others are starting to connect the dots.
| 
| [...]
| 
| He concluded ominously. "A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms.
| Pick a good seat on the sidelines, trainwrecks this large take
| awhile to complete. Vista may be the last MS OS for some time to
| come, especially if Cutler decides to play hardball."
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http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isnt-smart-enough-to-supplant-real-windows-developers/
http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt


More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing 

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| "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista
| operating system is set to be rewritten..."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=30516


,----[ Quote ]
| "In the long years since XP was launched, Apple have come out with five
| major upgrades to OS X, upgrades which (dare I say it?) install with about
| as much effort as it takes to brush your teeth in the morning. No nightmare
| calls to tech-support, no sudden hardware incompatibilities, no hassle. Why
| hasn't Microsoft kept up? Unmaintainable"
| 
| "Right now, Microsoft has nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. After all 
| the hype surrounding Vista, the Emperor has finally been revealed in all 
| his naked glory. Some folks have been predicting the demise of Microsoft. I
| wouldn't go that far, but I am wondering how we?re ever going to take
| Microsoft seriously again?"
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/29/vista_end_dream/


Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features

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| The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor
| technology to try to stick to its schedule of releasing the
| technology within 180 days of completing its Windows Server
| "Longhorn" operating system, due to be finalized before the
| end of the year.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6182852.html

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