28 August 2004 08:08
nielsb
Longhorn = Cairo?!
Does anyone remember Cairo? Cairo was, in the beginning of the 90's, supposed to be THE new operating system from Microsoft. This was the OS that would deliver on Bill G's "Information at Your Fingertips" vision. It was supposed to be version after NT 3.1. However as we know that didn't happen.
Is it just me, or does Longhorn start to smell like Cairo? Waking up this morning and reading quite a few blog posts (Chris Sells here, Mary Jo here) about cuts in Longhorn and delivery of Longhorn technologies in WinXP and W2K3, makes me wonder. So if you take away WinFs, and you deliver Indigo, Avalon and WinFX on XP and W2K3 - what's left?
Anyway, as Kent says, it's time to ramp up on Indigo!!