You Will Be Assimilated: Longhorn vs. Vista


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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Longhorn vs. Vista

Hey stupid, those are the same thing! Well, not really. What we knew as Longhorn is a far cry from what we are getting as Vista. Let's compare.

The .NET Framework will not be the core of the operating system as first promised. However, this will make Indigo (next generation web services) and Avalon (next generation GUI) available on Windows XP.

A new object oriented scripting shell has been, well, shelled. Monad got kicked in the gonads.

Security is job one. Palladium is job two. The new security infrastructure that promised to make us safe and warm is on hack train. What we will get is a shadow of its former self.

WinFS is gone. This was to be the new file system based on XML that would revolutionize how we view data on our systems. Goodbye C Drive and file folders? No, goodbye WinFS.

The Microsoft Business Framework has been unframed. Need to make enterprise development easier with a set of core libraries laid on top of .NET? Not this time. This was based on WinFS.

So, while all of these may eventually roll out, they will not be part of Windows Vista on release day. And hey, where the hell is Object Spaces!

Say goodbye to your old desktop! - Frylock
And say goodbye to your new one! - Master Shake

posted by Scott Kuhl at 10:41 AM

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