Windows Vista (longhorn), To copy many OS X features...duh Options

[*mipadi*]

http://www.betanews.com/article/Longhorn_G...ista/1122002477

It looks like the official name of Windows Longhorn is going to be Windows Vista. What do you guys think of the name, and of Longhorn in general? And more importantly, what's going to be released first: Duke Nukem Forever, or Longhorn?

[*kryogenix*]

So windows is forking?

[*mipadi*]

So windows is forking?

I wouldn't say forking. Forking indicates two things:

1. Two projects share the same codebase;
2. Two projects will likely continue to be developed concurrently, at least for the time being.

This article seems to indicate that Singularity is largely from scratch, and that it would be a replacement to Windows; similarly to how OS X does not share a codebase with Mac OS "classic", and is meant as a replacement for the classic Mac OS.

I haven't read MS's documentation to see how reliable that estimate is, but it's an interesting hypothesis. It's true that Windows has clearly gotten bloated, as it has taken years for Microsoft to release a successor to Windows XP; and given that they had to scrap six months of code, it's likely that a future OS almost needs to be written from scratch to be reliable, as it has clearly become a pain in the ass to manage Windows' code. But of course, MS's official word is that Singularity is just a testbed for new technology that will become a part of future Windows OS'es. I'll have to read the documentation, though.