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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft dreams of Vista's successor
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>| With Vista not even remotely close to being in the shops yet, the
>| software outfit Microsoft is talking about what will replace it.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32710
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> Also see:
>
> Microsoft ponders Windows successor
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> http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/28/HNwinsuccessor_1.html
>
>
> Some speculated that Vista will be the last release of Windows, whereas
> Microsoft Watch named some successors. A BSD kernel (overhaul) and
> Singularity return to mind.
This is the best quote:
Finding a DOS successor in the early 1990s seemed a simpler task,
he said. "Somehow, it was easier when the company was smaller
a long time ago," Barnett said.
... this being because they were able to buy-in a design team who had
the skills to write an OS.
It's also interesting to note that the vapourware campaign has already
started, presumably in the hope that if MS can persuade enough people
that they'll create a new OS which actually works, then they won't jump
ship to the free world beforehand. This also rather suggests that Vista
may not ever appear.
Will these tactics still work?
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