In Las Vegas for Microsoft Management Summit 2003, Microsoft Senior Vice President Brian Valentine revealed that plans for the next two Windows releases–code-named Longhorn and Blackcomb–are very much in flux. Microsoft officials also say they are again considering shipping a server version of the Longhorn operating system after announcing late last year that it would be released for the desktop only. Read the reports at WinInformant and NWFusion.
Windows Longhorn, Blackcomb Plans in Flux
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So Microsoft doesn’t know what .NET is and they don’t know what they are going to do with their OS. What leadership. What incredible vision. LOL
..or it could be not too dissimilar to the stuff that
blasts out of my tea kettle when it starts to whistle.
http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl2david/projects/vapourware.html
maybe even “leak” some phony screenshots to observe reaction etc…
It could have been “leaked” (with quotes), but AFAIK the screenshots were not fake.
I don’t understand why people think that the sheer number of shots of Longhorn were fake when SO many different people uploaded similarly-looking shots. And why is it so hard to believe that there is a new Windows coming up in 2 years? This has been the case since 1985! Nothing has changed.
I really don’t understand how some people think around here…
Actually, I’ve seen Longhorn (Build 4008 I think) available for download in ‘dark places’ of the Net, but I don’t have any interest in actually running it yet, so I passed it up.
I have seen Longhorn 3683 and 4008, but I do not want it. It is an alpha OS now, and it will look very different and probably function better when it reaches the beta stage. When Longhorn reaches RTM, it will be very different from the beta apperance, and the alpha apperance will more than likely be dropped as it was with the Whisltler biulds.
There is one thing about alpha operating systems that is: Running an alpha OS is like driving a new Yugo with a V12, 450 HP, 670 ci Ferrari engine on nitrous oxide at 190MPH on a rural gravel road, and finding out that the techincian did not renember to bleed the brakes before took the vehicle. There will be no way to stop, and will most certianly kill yourself in that deathtrap that has inadvertantly been created. Only with Longhorn, you will only kill your computer, (which can be ressurected), not yourself.
I could also compare an alpha product to playing russian roulette with 5 loaded chambers, using a 6 shot revolver, but I think a 16.666% (1/6) chance of your computer acutally surviving an alpha OS is a little high.
Many people will probably say this is some crazyness at MS. well you put yourself in their shoes. You try to nail down a product on what it will be and when it will come out when your talking something 2-3-4 years away. Everything around it will change before then, so you have to adjust. MS obviously stops and pauses for a moment every once and a while to assess things and see if there on the right track. I’m sure if they had all goals and projects of the future OS’s nailed down they could punch it out in a few months and spend the next few years debugging. But then it will be obsolete on delivery. I for one would not want to be a planner for an OS like windows. The stress would kill me.