Hum...it took MS 5+ years to chisel out a new wheel. What's going to happen
when they try to make a whole new wheel?


<.> wrote in message news:uwB4m4cYHHA.2320@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Most companies that start again from scratch go broke.
>
> Perhaps Microsoft will build new technologies into Vienna like they built
> virtualisation and search into Vista - hold on, they were in 2000 and XP
> too.
>
> So look at features you already have then get ready to upgrade so you will
> use them. Because the evidence is if MS doesn't say it's a feature noone
> will use it.
>
> "D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden********.com> wrote in message
> news:evFmdxcYHHA.3772@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Microsoft Vienna may well be worth the wait, if it is indeed as radical a
>> redesign as this indicates:
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Windows Vienna - opening a new generation of operating systems
>>
>> September 7, 2006
>>
>> In the past 20 years, the Microsoft Windows operating system has
>> accumulated
>> old code libraries that brought it to the size it has today, 2.5 GB and
>> about 50 million lines of code (Windows Vista).
>>
>> These old code libraries consume resources and are often the targets of
>> security exploits.
>>
>> The best way to avoid such problems, is to start from scratch, which is
>> close to what Microsoft plans to do with Windows Vienna.
>>
>> Windows Vienna will represent the start of a different generation of
>> operating systems, bringing in new concepts and support for new types of
>> hardware, along with a better security and a modular approach, which will
>> allow future versions of Windows to be built more easily on Windows
>> Vienna's
>> engine.
>>
>> It is also likely that the future success of Microsoft's products will be
>> strongly decided by the success of the new generation operating system.
>>
>> <http://www.windowsvienna.com/>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> STARTING FROM SCRATCH...
>>
>> Sounds Quite Sensible...
>>
>> Waiting for Vienna, if one can, sounds increasingly attractive.
>>
>> XP Pro SP2 is a sweet OS.
>>
>> Vista may turn out to be as transient and inconsequential as
>> Millennium -- IF we can have Vienna in 2009.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>> New, But Associated Subject:
>>
>> I agree with Jerry, "HEMI-Powered" [what's your moniker mean, Jerry?],
>> that
>> I will NEVER leave any of my machines alone at night -- or any other
>> time --
>> to do a DEFRAG or a DISK IMAGE or a WINDOWS or AV UPDATE -- all by
>> ITSELF.
>>
>> So, this silly-buggers business of "scheduling a weekly backup/download
>> at
>> 3AM" is absurd.
>>
>> I also will never allow the cursed AUTOMATIC UPDATES on any of my
>> machines -- even for my Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware programs and Windows
>> Update -- which would love to put IE7 on all my machines if I let it --
>> because MS insists IE7 is a "CRITICAL UPDATE".
>>
>> Baloney et Twaddle!
>>
>> DSH
>>
>> Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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