XP SE (need i say more to make this topic interesting)

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

here is an article by the register about what our favourite software company is doing, this should please the Harrys out there!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27325.html

"Despite earlier suggestions to the contrary (which we didn't believe anyway) Microsoft may be planning an interim version of Windows XP to fill the chasm between last year's rollout of XP itself, and the next big one, Longhorn, which quite possibly won't hit until 2006 or later. According to an eWeek piece by Mary Jo Foley (who we have missed greatly since Ziff Davis hid her in a paid-for newsletter), Microsoft is proposing to reach for the bottle again, having foresworn the demon release cycle treadmill just a few short months ago."

[jtpenrod]

quote:It strikes us, however, that there may be less to Longhorn, or at least to what Bill Gates says about Longhorn, than meets the eye. Microsoft is apparently starting with a blank sheet of paper with Longhorn, but as recent job ads made clear,  it's also starting with a blank sheet of paper with Palladium. Starting with two blank sheets of paper around the same time strikes us as weird, particularly as Palladium will become more and more of an influence on Microsoft's OS development the closer it gets. It would seem to us to make sense for Palladium to be the major effort (given the security imperative) and for Longhorn to get subsumed in Palladium, or to be transformed into a 'set of technologies' that appears in other products, or just to get busted back down into a less ambitious revamp of Windows XP.

Good golly, Molly; WHUDDA SURPRISE!   :eek:  

When has M$ ever met a release deadline? Remember Windows 93?(!) This one didn't come out until 1995, whereupon it was oh so conventiently renamed. Once again, we clearly see that this corporation really has very little idea as to what it's doing. But, then again, incompetence is its own reward    
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Computers are like air conditioners: they can't do their jobs if you open windows.

[lazygamer]

What, they have blank sheets for Palladium? Wow, that's sure a useful way to mobilize TCPA before their deadline of bankruptcy arrives.