[semi-OT] [Fwd: No Way to Build an Operating System]

[Lonni J Friedman]

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No Way to Build an Operating System
via JupiterResearch Analyst Weblogs - Media by dcard at jupiterkagan.com on
5/29/08

This is no way to build an operating system. Microsoft Watch opines,
based on the D6 conference stage show:

       Windows 7 will ship in 2009, almost certainly in time for
       holiday PCs. Microsoft disclosed today that there would be no
       major architectural changes from Vista, which would greatly
       reduce development complications.

Check out this comment, in another of Joe Wilcox's blogs, that appends
some internal e-mails released during the dark days of DoJ.

       MSFT has worked on WinFS for more than a decade without success
       in making it fast, reliable, and easy-to-use enough for release.
       The Longhorn "reset" in 2004 was in large part the realization
       that WinFS was still not ready for primetime.

       At the June 2004 WWDC, Jobs blew away the MSFT engineers in
       attendance by demonstrating lightning fast Spotlight searches on
       Tiger (OSX 10.4). The court-released MSFT emails show how
       flabbergasted they were, and the imperative of getting the Tiger
       preview DVDs back to Redmond for reverse engineering. Comments
       by MSFT's Jim Allchin and Lenn Pryor were priceless.

       Here's Pryor:

       " You will have to take Vic's disk...I am not giving mine up. ;)
       Tonight I got on corpnet, hooked up Mail.app to my Exchange
       server and then downloaded all of my mail into the local file
       store. I did system wide queries against docs, contacts, apps,
       photos, music, and my Microsoft email on a Mac. It was f*cking
       amazing. It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land
       today."

       Here's Allchin:

       "Yes. I know. It is hard to take. I don't believe we will have
       search this fast."


So, apparently, the 2009-2010 version of Windows will still not have the
next-gen file system I was writing about more than 10 years ago -- when
"Cairo" was the lead codename -- let alone a microkernel with modules
for OS "personalities" and compatibility.

You're gonna fend off Google and cloud computing with a touch screen??
Good luck. I do hope there's a skunkworks Plan B in the labs. No wonder
buying Yahoo "isn't strategic."






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