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http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9911470-56.html
So much for Vista I guess. Although it will be another 2 years until they get a majority of the bugs worked out.
Anyone heard what is big about this version?
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ME was a creation designed to lengthen the life of the Windows9x kernel, because Win2000 was not ready to support everything that would needed to be supported (READ: Legacy drivers, printers, DOS apps, etc). It's been well known that Vista (or Longhorn) was a stepping stone to Blackcomb, the real redesign. So, you have ME->XP and here you have Vista->Blackcomb, which will most likely be a much more sweeping redesign.
Vista, at the beginning was supposed to be a huge, huge step up from the then-current XP, with a relational file system, a whole new interface, monad (which came out as PowerShell), and a huge focus on .NET. After MS realized that the featureset not only wouldn't be ready in time and wasn't even doable with the amount of changes they were making, Vista was then scaled back. In the end of the day, Vista is an incremental improvement architecturally from XP. Most of the "features" that are huge as far as the design side are workarounds for faults that existed in XP (FS Virtualization, Security Enhancements, UAC) while not doing anything to advance the state of the OS. Very similar to ME in that respect. That said, Avalon was a decent step up in comparison to GDI(+) but it's not like Apple or the OSS people didn't have that years ago either. It also makes very little difference to user experience, since I've never seen MS use it effectively in Vista. Finally, bringing every driver out of Ring 0 that didn't need to be there was also pretty sweet.
Finally, the backlash -- people spend $400 on an OS that doesn't do anything much better than XP. People are bound to be pissed off. Windows ME was no different, albeit cheaper.
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