Vista Source Code Leaked!

[Kadratis]

Source

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

This used to be "Windows 95 Sourcecode" and the punchline was "RunWindows3.0."

 

[Marc]

Did some training on Trend Interscan SMB products a couple of years back. The trainer was a big tech guy from Trend who'd seen the Vista source code etc - his comment was that if you had XP with SP2 you had the vast majority of what Vista offered and he was right.

Slashdot has an article up about Microsoft having the replacement out for Vista in the next 12 months which suggests the thing is really dead in the water (you don't talk up the next version while you're still trying to sell the current). Especially when combined with a recent report that businesses are still reluctant to move to both Vista and IE7.

 

[BCI]

The entire point of Vista is its chain of copy protection measures for digital rights and high definition content. Thanks to Vista and Hollywood, Graphics cards need special encryption circuits nowadays... What a waste...

 

[USS KG5]

The entire point of Vista is its chain of copy protection measures for digital rights and high definition content. Thanks to Vista and Hollywood, Graphics cards need special encryption circuits nowadays... What a waste...

Sadly this is very close to the truth.

 

[Stormrage]

Leaking the source code for Vista is probably the best thing that could happen to that OS and Linux. One gets to rip off ideas and the other gets geeks making stuff for it.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I've forgotten how much I REALLY hate C++ syntax! This thing is frickin' hilarious though.

 

[Garrovick]

Wondering why?

Windows 7 is just a couple of years away.

2010 I think that's what the story said.

 

[Garrovick]

The entire point of Vista is its chain of copy protection measures for digital rights and high definition content. Thanks to Vista and Hollywood, Graphics cards need special encryption circuits nowadays... What a waste...

What is the E.U. working on as it's OS?

 

[BCI]

Public offices like to use OpenOffice.org, Gimp or Firefox. Going from there to systems entirely based on Linux is something we'll see more and more.

 

[Marc]

Wondering why?

Windows 7 is just a couple of years away.

2010 I think that's what the story said.

Bill Gates is now saying that it will be in the next 12 months.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Windows 7 is just a couple of years away.

Interesting...are they finally getting away from using years in their products and going back to version numbers or is that just the "working title"?

 

[estrea]

Oh, great...someone else who thinks C++ is a mind-twister.

 

[JoeZhang]

Slashdot has an article up about Microsoft having the replacement out for Vista in the next 12 months which suggests the thing is really dead in the water (you don't talk up the next version while you're still trying to sell the current).

It's because the model has changed - MS plan to have an OS out every 1.5 years or so from this point on - so the vista replacement is 2009 and then the next one is going to be 2011 or so and so on.

 

[Marc]

Slashdot has an article up about Microsoft having the replacement out for Vista in the next 12 months which suggests the thing is really dead in the water (you don't talk up the next version while you're still trying to sell the current).

It's because the model has changed - MS plan to have an OS out every 1.5 years or so from this point on - so the vista replacement is 2009 and then the next one is going to be 2011 or so and so on.

I'm not sure that's a good thing especially in the business environment. When businesses have software that can be sensitive to the OS and that will need tesitng, such a release cycle wouldn't see them up their purchase of MS operating systems.

I just can't see business clients jumping to new software that quickly and home users might get pretty sick of upgrading OS ever 18 months.

3 years is acceptable (the move to XP was slightly less than 2 years but that's different with the final demise of the win9x lines merging with the NT/2000 lines).