03-25-2007, 08:54 AM
Microsoft has said that they plan to release Windows Vienna in 2009. This seems a little strange since it took them 7 years to develope Vista and Vista is basically XP with Mac-like graphics.
That got me thinking, Vista was supposed to have tons of new features and redesigned interface (No start button for instance.) But Microsoft said that some of the features that they had promised proved too difficult to implement. I wonder if it's possible that they have been working on Vienna for the past seven years and threw Vista together at the last minute. It seems that all Vista is is Windows XP wrapped up with select features of Vienna, and since Vienna was designed to be completely different is somewhat incompatible with XP, combining them made it incredible buggy.
Do you think Microsoft actually charged you $499 for something they designed to be a last minute stepping stone to prepare you for Vienna? What would they charge for Vienna I wonder?
So what do you think? 1) Is Vienna already mostly written and Vista is just scraps from it? 2) Microsoft can write Vienna in two years? 3) 2009 isn't even close to the actual release date?
That got me thinking, Vista was supposed to have tons of new features and redesigned interface (No start button for instance.) But Microsoft said that some of the features that they had promised proved too difficult to implement. I wonder if it's possible that they have been working on Vienna for the past seven years and threw Vista together at the last minute. It seems that all Vista is is Windows XP wrapped up with select features of Vienna, and since Vienna was designed to be completely different is somewhat incompatible with XP, combining them made it incredible buggy.
Do you think Microsoft actually charged you $499 for something they designed to be a last minute stepping stone to prepare you for Vienna? What would they charge for Vienna I wonder?
So what do you think? 1) Is Vienna already mostly written and Vista is just scraps from it? 2) Microsoft can write Vienna in two years? 3) 2009 isn't even close to the actual release date?
f you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic voices. The scary part is that if you play it forwards it installs Windows.