Wednesday, January 03, 2007

I'm So Over Longhorn.

Vista is ready to roll out and under-deliver on all those promises that Microsoft made way back when they decided to make Longhorn instead of Blackcomb. The new phenoms are now Fiji and Vienna. Fiji being a kind of Vista second edition (remember when you got win98 second edition? That was pretty sweet.) And Vienna is the whole new shebang that was sposed to be Blackcomb in the first place. (remember when you got winxp after win98se? Even more sweet.) It'll use voice recognition as a major input and do away with folder management and menus. Sounds like the computer scifi writers have been dreaming about for centuries. Of course a bunch of this stuff was sposed to be in here by now but was postponed so don't get too excited. The cool features will most likely get the "that's really hard, it'll be in the next generation" bump just before release.

Oh, and all of you who think you just wasted 70 seconds reading that cause there's no way you're going to remember that Blackcomb is now Vienna just like you didn't know that Vista was Longhorn, you're right. You wasted your time.

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