From: Mike '/m' 


Microsof tis unable to get the thing out the door, so they are trying press
release hype to keep people interested.

Only not everyone is buying...

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_5308_05.asp

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Windows Vista February 2006 CTP (Build 5308/5342) Review, Part 5: Where Vista Fails


I still remember the day very clearly. It was Monday, October 27, 2003.
Several thousand developers--and, let's face it, quite a few garden variety
Windows enthusiasts--charged into Hall A at the Los Angeles Convention
Center (LACC) like teenage girls at a Justin Timberlake concert, volleying
for the best seats. I've been to more Bill Gates keynotes than I can count,
and this was the first time I ever saw anyone climb over other people in
order to secure a better view. (No offense to Mr. Gates, but he's not
exactly a dynamic speaker.) It was PDC 2003 (see my review) and everything
was right with my world.

The purpose of this melee? Gates and Microsoft were about to unveil Windows
Vista--then still known by its codename Longhorn--to the world. And sure
enough, almost an hour into a typical Gates snoozeathon, the lights finally
dimmed, the rock music kicked in, and we were treated to a musical and
video feast for the senses (see my showcase). As I excitedly wrote at the
time, "my goodness. [Windows Vista] is going to rock ... The
transparent window effects--called glass windows, appropriately enough--are
beautiful. The ability to embed video and any other kind of media into
documents, apps, and anything else you can think off--even small previews
you see when you mouse-over a scrollbar--are just incredible, surpassing
anything on any system available today (yes, including Mac OS X Panther).
The visuals in [Windows Vista] are just going to blow you away."

Let those words hang in your mind for a bit. Two and a half years later,
Microsoft has yet to ship Windows Vista, and it won't actually ship this
system in volume until 2007. Since the euphoria of PDC 2003, Microsoft's
handling of Windows Vista has been abysmal. Promises have been made and
dismissed, again and again. Features have come and gone. Heck, the entire
project was literally restarted from scratch after it became obvious that
the initial code base was a teetering, technological house of cards.
Windows Vista, in other words, has been an utter disaster. And it's not
even out yet. What the heck went wrong?...
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 /m




On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:11:40 +0200, "Hrvoje Mesing"
 wrote:

>Hi,
>
>very little about some nice (maybe) "futures" of Windows Vista:
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/05/FirstLook/default.a
spx
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/vista/gadgets-pt1.mspx
>
>
>---
>M.
>

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