[Gllug] Longhorn

[Richard Jones]

Journalists are reprinting MS press releases on Longhorn at a
tremendous rate at the moment. Not bad for an operating system which
won't even see the light for the next two years.

MS is a very good marketing company. Their specialities are momentum
marketing and vapourware announcements to distract attention from
competitors.

Of course hoary old veterans like us have seen all this before. Back
in '93/94 MS was hyping up an next gen operating system with an object
oriented file store replacing the hierarchical filesystem (hmm, sounds
familiar?). It was called Cairo.  What finally appeared, years behind
schedule, was Windows 95, which was less than spectacular, technically
speaking.

Of course by that point all the competitors had given up ever having
any hope of competing with the wonderful Cairo and had largely driven
themselves out of business.

Rich.

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