Microsoft:
Longhorn Is Great, XP Is Lame Software vendors walk a fine line
when pushing upgrades -- tout the new version without slamming the
old one. Microsoft threw that strategy aside in pumping Longhorn to
the WinHEC faithful, as execs
belittled Windows XP in the process. One VP said that XP hadn't
been thought through and at times "failed to deliver." The
surprising part is not that XP has major shortcomings -- early on
its enhancements were recognized as little more than
improved
stability and
a bunch
of bug fixes. Rather, the interesting part is Microsoft
actually admitting to drawbacks at all, even several years late.
But Longhorn, now there's a
real operating system!