Re: In the Shallow End
- From: ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:50:03 -0400
In article <12dv6o7e4978cb6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Dan Johnson" <danieljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"ZnU" <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <12dutv6sajr3g3e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Dan Johnson"
<danieljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
MS scotched WinFS, which is bad for them and their developers in
lots of ways. I know of no other significant features dropped;
some fiddling around the edges, and some rebranding, but the big
technologies all seem to be there still.
They also canceled or delayed EFI support,
EFI is still in, last I heard, but 64-bit only.
It has been cut from the initial release.
This is the kind of fiddling around the edges MS can get away with.
NGSCB (AKA Palladium),
I had forgotten this one. They did drop this from Vista.
MS says they haven't given up on this, but it still won't be there in
Vista.
Still, I wonder if this is really a *bad* thing. There was a lot of
controvesy about this feature.
The feature itself could have possibly led to better security for
end-users. Of course, there were all sorts of plans (in which Microsoft
was complicit) to use it for rather more nefarious purpose. (Like, using
it to prevent end-users from having full control over their own
computers, in the interest of content rights holders.)
and Windows PowerShell.
They haven't cut this yet; they've decided to ship it separately. At
the rate it (and Vista) are going, it might beat Vista to market.
It's in the release-candidate stage now; Vista is still in beta.
Hmm, didn't catch this. Still, I'll believe it when I see it. "We're
shipping that separately" seems to be the new Microsoft terminology for
for "We'll cancel that later when nobody is looking."
And at some point Microsoft was making noises about rewriting a lot
of stuff in .NET for Vista, but that doesn't seem to have ever
panned out.
Yes, it has. It's just that a lot of people thought this means
*rewriting Windows* in .NET, which would be crazy.
Well, it depends. What Microsoft was at some point calling Blackcomb,
which was originally supposed to ship in 2007, *was* supposed to be a
fairly significant re-write.
Then Longhorn got inserted between XP and Blackcomb. Longhorn was
originally supposed to be a fairly minor interim release, but slowly
subsumed some Blackcomb features, and its release date got pushed back.
So, no Microsoft never did promise a large-scale rewrite specifically
for Longhorn/Vista... but they were talking about one for the same time
frame, at one point.
But they've got a whole new GUI toolkit and a communication
infrastructure in managed code for Vista. There was supposed to be a
storage subsystem too, but WinFS got canned.
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-- George W. Bush in Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 28, 2005
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