Color me crazy but it looks like a glossed up XP to me, ExtremeTech. Same old control panel, networking options, power options, oh wait is it the auto-defrag that has you swooning? Seriously, Microsoft should have invested their time in a new OS not slapping paint and decals on this aging NT based cruft. The betas thus far have failed to impress me and this weak attempt at evangelizing the OS hasn’t helped either. Vista and it’s six iterations elicits a yawn from me.
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I could not agree more, they ripped out one of the biggest features that was going to make it cool, a database driven filesystem. It looks like they are putting the Aero interface on XP so it will sell more hardware.
Dead on. Over at Paul Thurrott’s site he has a quote that at least for me lays bare what the real problem is for Microsoft and Windows development: “Now there are 5000 member of the Windows team, plus an additional 5000 contributing partners, generating over 50 million lines of code for Windows Server 2003.” Now think about the petty corporate fiefdom crap that goes on every year at the smallest companies about budget allocation and ownership over deliverables then lay that over a company the size of MS. It is a wonder that they are even able to produce a new OS every 5 or so years and it is no wonder that they are cutting the most important features for the sake of eye candy leaving the consumer with tasty icing spread thinly over a crusty ass stale biscuit.