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Vista vs. Cairo - A Microsoft History Lesson

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-read dept.

avocade writes "Here is a nice history lesson by (the unfortunately infamous) Daniel Eran, arguing why the Longhorn/Vista road is very similar to the NT/Cairo road that Microsoft took in the 90's, effectively trying their best to discourage competition in the marketplace."

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  1. Infamous indeed - spammer by mccalli · · Score: 5, Informative

    Daniel Eran has been spamming uk.comp.sys.mac for weeks now, ignoring every polite request for him to stop. He shows no sign of engaging with the group (beyond calling us "a hateful bunch of queens"), just spams links to his blog against charter and then swans off again.

    Daniel Eran. Just Say No.

    Cheers,
    Ian

  2. Better Windows history here... by Aphrika · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wikipedia - generally a little more authoritative than a (rather opinionated and flawed) blog entry.

    Incidentally, I distinctly remember Cairo not being vaporware or a hoax as stated in the article, there were certainly dodgy builds of it floating around before it was canned and NT 4.0 appeared as a Win95-ified NT 3.51 replacement. The idea that Cairo was a hoax in a non-starter. That's like saying Copland was a hoax, no, sometimes projects get shelved because they're not working out - OS design is an area of computing where it's incredibly easy to be idealogical about features, then figure out that you just can't deliver the goods.