[Pc_Support] Blackcomb--er, Vienna, proof the death of Cairo--er, Longhorn, is now complete ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

No sir, we're not talking about "Longhorn" anymore.  It's now here!
We're only talking about Vista.  "Longhorn" R&D is not worth talking
about anymore, we're delivering you a great OS!  It's more secure, boots
5% faster on average and even better!  "WinFX technologies"?  Oh, yeah,
well, don't worry about those, we're adding them later.

Oh, you still want WinFX?  Vista is great!  Isn't Vista great?  Yeah,
oh ... when were we going to add them?  Well, truth is, we've already
decided to add them to the next release of Windows.

"Vienna" will add WinFX, MONAD and other true .NET security with
authentication and certificates and all those wipper-snappier
technologies!  Vista is great!  Isn't Vista great?  And if Vista is
great, won't "Vienna" be even better?!

All those neato WinFX technologies, they're going to be in "Vienna."
Yes sir, a true .NET platform, that's "Vienna"!  We're going to add them
to Vienna.  We want to do it right.

Isn't Vista great?  It's almost here!  And if you think Vista is cool,
you're going to love "Vienna!"  We're making it true .NET, adding a new
filesystem, a new execution environment and a total security overall --
all true .NET!  Yes sir!  "Vienna" is the future!

Wouldn't you like a brand new filesystem?  How about a UNIX-like
security model with a true, protected scripting environment?  And what
about full certificate-based authentication and encryption, for all
services?  Yep, that's "Vienna"!  We've been working on it for years,
and it's coming!

Until then, Vista is more secure!  It's great!  We can't do everything,
but it's going to be more secure!  We've improved Win32 and improved MS
IE!  And there's a new version of MS Office!  Totally written for and
native to only Vista!  But we realize not everyone is moving to Vista,
so we made it so MS Office can run on Windows 2000SP3 and later too!  We
give you better security but the ability to run old apps!  Isn't Vista
great?

And if you think Vista, the new Office and IE 7 is cool, you'll love
"Vienna."  It's going to be .NET, a new security model, a new filesystem
with SQL and a new, protected scripting environment far more security
than UNIX, and everything will be authenticated, encrypted, signed and
viruses and spyware completely eliminated!  Yes, "Vienna" is everything!

Until then, isn't Vista great?!  We spent 5 years working on it after
Windows XP and added ... well, lots of stuff!  And if you think that new
stuff is cool, wait until our next Windows OS, "Vienna."  Native .NET,
full security model, SQL-based filesystem ... and more!

JUST FSCKING CALL IT WHAT IT WAS ... "BLACKCOMB"!

YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE PROMISED NT 4.0 CAIRO IMPROVEMENTS THAT *NEVER* WENT
INTO NT 4.0, THEN WERE PUSHED BACK AS "CARIO TECHNOLOGIES" TO BE
RELEASED AFTER NT 4.0'S RELEASE BUT WERE *NEVER* RELEASED BECAUSE YOU
SAID THEY WERE GOING INTO NT "BLACKCOMB" WHICH *SILENTLY*DIED* 10 YEARS
AGO!

Sorry.  Had to get that out.  This is the climax people.

"LONGHORN" IS OFFICIALLY AND HUGELY *FSCKING*VAPORWARE*!  Not only is
"WinFX" *DEAD* as far as NT 6.0 "Longhorn" Vista and Vista Server go,
Microsoft has basically now said that all those "technologies" are going
into "Vienna" the successor to "Longhorn"/Vista.

They talking about Vienna in 2006, before NT 6.0 "Longhorn" is released
in 2007 with *NOTHING* as promised but a bloated, slow and incomplete
GUI that caused most of us to rush out and get new video cards.

I heard the name "Blackcomb" in 1996 -- 10 years ago! -- before NT 4.0
"Cario" was released in 1997 with *NOTHING* as promised but a bloated,
slow and incomplete GUI that will cause most of us to rush out and get
new video cards.

Now they are saying "Blackcomb" is "Vienna" -- among other codenames. 

They are acting like it's "newer" when it was designed supposed to be
the "peer" to "Whistler"!  "Whistler" was supposed an improved version
of "Blackcomb" for consumers -- and the codename re-used Windows XP
development with _none_ of the "Cario technologies" now designated for
"Blackcomb" as originally promised.

And everything AND I MEAN EVERYTHING WAS *LEFT* AND *SILENTLY*DIED* or
"oh, well, we got this (major substandard of originally promised
solution) working!  From "yeah, it'll be in Cario" to "yeah, it'll be
added later as 'Cario Technologies'" to "oh, we're not adding them after
to Cairo, we're going to put them in the next release 'Blackcomb' and
then 'Whistler'."

100%, absolute *REPEAT*OF*HISTORY* 10 YEARS AFTER CARIO!

This is the death knell.  *NOTHING* will actually be released.  WinFX
Technologies are *DEAD*!  They are already acting like they didn't
promise them for Longhorn, and that Vienna is where they planned them
all along.

GOD I MUST BE TOO STUPID FOR THE IT INDUSTRY!


-- 
Bryan J. Smith           Professional, technical annoyance
mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org     http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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