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Vista vs. Cairo - A Microsoft History Lesson
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."
If an individual has a message they feel is important that they want to get out, I don't see an issue with posting a reference or two. Flooding a board is another story.
Besides, using the term "SPAM" is inaccurate: what is the commercial benefit of his links?
Or are you trying to use distactics to distract people from his core argument, building up hatred by labelling him a spammer?
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
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,
The Roughly Drafted article is not supposed to be a Window's history, it's a Microsoft Marketing history. Versions of software are mentioned and compared to competing and promissed versions. The history presented is accurate as are the product descriptions. What's more important is how M$ prommisses everything their competitors have today, convince the press the promisses are credible, but fail to deliver for decades. To find the same information in Wikipedia, you need to combine the Microsoft specific information from these articles:
Or you could just have a memory and a brain. It should be clear to any Windows user that M$'s operating systems are bloated, insecure and feature poor. It is equally clear that the reason for their market dominance has everything to do with marketing and nothing to do with technology. The author goes into some of those mechanics and why they won't work in the future.
The central thesis, that M$ uses vaporware to it's advantage, is clearly true. The similarity between Cairo an Longhorn mostly exist because Microsoft has yet to deliver on the feature promisses they made for Cairo. As the author pointed out, those features were available in competing products of the day and many are still not implemented in the new 10 Gigabyte sized Windoze.
Yes, when I say many, I refer to the lack of standards and use "Embrace, Extend Extinguish" delivers after a decade of fumbling. You can run in circles forever with slippery M$ promisses, or you can get out and enjoy standards based software from innovators. This has been the case for decades.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Quibbling about whether the i860 fits your idea of what 64-bit means is not very interesting. I was only pointing out that the i860 was a modern processor. I made no error.
Clearly, you can write for days about how you don't like things. Just don't confuse your personal prejudices against reality and "factual errors."
I didn't present that Microsoft's Cairo was bad only because it didn't achieve everything it hoped; rather, I pointed out that Microsoft has a history of overpromising and underdelivering.
In 1981, 1991, and 2001, Microsoft promised to deliver what other companies actually delivered within a few years... except that Microsoft didn't really ever deliver.
Its version of the 1984 Mac came out in the end of 1995 - unimpressively.
Its version of the 1989 NeXTSTEP stopped trying to ship in 1996.
Its version of the 2002 Mac OS X is just now planning to ship in 2007, minus most of its planned features.
The real question is: why are you defending the world from reality?
And before you completely spaz out about how little I like Microsoft, remember that I have repeatedly castigated Apple for its failures as well.
Why Apple Failed
Newton Lessons
I make errors as well, and appreciate when they are pointed out so I don't make them again, but your rant just pulls crap out of context and presents it in a very disingenous and misleading way. You aren't attacking facts, you're just trying to attack me personally because there is nothing really controversial about Microsoft's reign of incompetence over the tech industry.