Re: Vista complaints


Lars Träger wrote:
Super Spinner <Pepe.Smythe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lars Träger wrote:
Exactly, they should post those as replies to the "Longhorn will be so
great when it comes out in 2003" posts made by Wintrolls long forgotten
(or who have changed names so often they've forgotten it was them).

Anyone who thought that Longhorn would really be released in 2003 is
either an idiot or an anti-MS fanboy creating unrealistic expectations
so as to bash MS. XP was released in late 2001. You think Longhorn
would be released just two years later? (Longhorn wasn't just the
typical OSX 0.1 incremental upgrade, and even those take 12-18 months
to be released).

So you admit that Microsoft lied. Good, you are on your way to recovery.


I couldn't care less about some unrealistic roadmap that Microsoft put
out.


BTW, Longhorn IS an intermediate release to Windows XP before the actual
successor to XP, codenamed 'Blackcomb' will be released in early 2004,
if all things go well.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/27/microsoft_reshuffles_windows_roa
dmap_full/

Vista's not a *major* upgrade, but IMO it's like going from OSX 10.1 to
10.4. Apple went form 10.1 to 10.4 faster than Microsoft is going from
XP to Vista, but you have to remember that during the same time
Microsoft spent time on XP SP2, XP 64, Windows Server 2003, Windows MCE
2005, TabletPC, Windows Mobile (and the other WinCE stuff), XP
Embedded, and .NET 2.0. All of those OS products had updates
(sometimes multiple updates) from the time that XP was released up to
today. Only Longhorn/Vista itself was delayed, and that's largely
because of Microsoft's screwed up development process (which they've
publicly admitted) which caused them to start over in 2004 using
Windows Server 2003 as the base rather than XP (and yet XP work still
continued to get XP SP2 out the door). It's not like Microsoft was
doing nothing wrt their OS products during all this time.

.

Relevant Pages

  • COM/DCOM support
    ... Will COM/DCOM be supported in future versions of Windows Server (beyond ... workstation operating systems (LongHorn and future) and Microsoft ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • Re: OT~TechNet Flash - Volume 6, Issue 8
    ... > latest information about deploying and maintaining Microsoft technology. ... This extension allows Microsoft to support the MSJVM until December ... and File and Print capabilities that helped Windows Server 2003 ... We receive a lot of great submissions here at TechNet and, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress.stationery)
  • Re: OT~TechNet Flash - Volume 6, Issue 8
    ... >> latest information about deploying and maintaining Microsoft technology. ... and File and Print capabilities that helped Windows Server ... We receive a lot of great submissions here at TechNet and, ... >> benefit users can get answers about Online Concierge Chat and Managed ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress.stationery)
  • RE: Error installing VPN on SBS 2003 SP1
    ... Connection Manager configuration package after installing Windows Server ... To run the Remote Access Wizard: ... from the Microsoft Web site. ... newsgroups so that they can be resolved in an efficient and timely manner. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Wronghorn
    ... I can run the same Windows ... As far as I can tell, Longhorn is yet another Windows ... >> Microsoft typically pushes big software bundles that ... >> Customers who chose to migrate to Longhorn will be faced ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)