jameskyton.wordpress.com — Now that Windows Vista is released, Microsoft is going to focus on future versions Windows. In 2008, a Windows Vista R2, currently codenamed 'Fiji' and then in 2010 Windows 'Vienna' is to be released.
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raianDec 30, 2006
@frost9999You are talking out of your ass.They got the name from a ski resort (whistler-blackcomb) which are two mountains in British Columbia. The longhorn saloon is an apr?s bar between the mountains.It has nothing to do with where Microsoft has meetings... it's just a code name that made sense: First they'd make whistler, then they'd have a little release (longhorn), and then ramp up to release blackcomb. Although in the end it didn't turn out that way.
poetDec 30, 2006
Everything that is said in this article is EXACTLY what was PROMISED in Vista. Microsoft will always overly hype it's product to increase sales to those who do not keep updated on their shortcomings.
Closed AccountDec 30, 2006
Why would windows want to start a "radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized"? That'd be an odd thing for them to do, wouldn't it?
linkinpark342Dec 30, 2006
Whatever happened to blackcomb? Is that still slated for release after all this fiji and vienna stuff or is this new stuff microsofts new tactic and they are dropping blackcomb
honoredmuleDec 31, 2006
I've been personally predicting this VM-as-an-OS trend for about 6 months to a year. I dunno that I'd go so far as to say they'd stop being an OS though. MS's greatest strength is the wide hardware support they enjoy, market penetration, and the ability they have to mediate standards, like for example how DirectX 10 brought so many components together to produce a truly more powerful and flexible rendering system. All that comes from direct control of an entire system, and they'd be crazy to give up their direct access to bare metal. Doing so would be handing their cash cow to...Linux? GoogleOS? Then why would we need anything from MS at all? One of the core reasons .NET is so much better/more performant than something like Java to begin with is the core integration into the OS itself.This has a lot more to do with the archaism of using old-school OS API's and the vast improvement of managed code + system libraries in that managed code over Win32/POSIX in traditional compiled languages. So all I was really saying was that I expect unmanaged code to be phased out in MS' proprietary OS, and that will likely be a trend that spreads to non-proprietary systems, likely resulting in integrated support for MS apps in linux and other OS's.Anyway, don't expect them to go out of their way to make OS-agnostic games easier to develop. MS still maintains its relevance through proprietary standards..which is still sometimes a worthy trade-off for guided innovation, or at least accelerated progress in the obvious direction.
Closed AccountDec 31, 2006Submitter
No Problem, thanks again for reading my blog. The reason I put my own blog here is because its new and I wanted more people to know about it. I figured if no one likes it its going to be digged down anyways, but apparently people liked it 355 diggs is a lot more than I expected. Thanks a lot.P.S. I'll submit other interesting articles i read about as well.
Closed AccountDec 31, 2006
RTFAFiji will be the originally promised Longhorn.Vienna will be "Windows Revolutionized.Removing the explorer shell, etc.
nevermind13Jan 1, 2007
That view would have more credibility had Microsoft actually integrated everything they had set out to. If a company promises excellent features such as WinFS, and then they axe them, and still have major delays, I don't believe you can say that they were simply taking the time to get it right. Vista has improvements over XP, but not as many as promised. Everyone here knows they had problems with the development, and while they did take significant time to work out bugs, that was not the major reason for the delays. We are left with a good operating system, arriving much later than promised, with less features than promised. Certain delays could not have been avoided, but to say all Microsoft was doing was getting it right is being very generous.
crazypickleFeb 1, 2007
u don't need parallels to run windows of a mac... i have a mac, and a dell, and a vaio i run 3 OSes on all of them!