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I wonder if the project name for win10 was shoehorn.

by Numberwang 10y ago

mwcampbell 10y ago
No, it was Threshold.
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  Threshold, then Redstone.
  - douche 10y ago
    Interesting, considering Microsoft has acquired Mojang
    - voltagex_ 10y ago
      Yep, Threshold was Halo, Redstone is Minecraft. http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/08/windows-10-update-redstone/ http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/08/windows-10-update-redston...
- NamTaf 10y ago
  You missed the joke, unless I missed your counterjoke.
frik 10y ago
Yes. Vista was actually a fine release, just a bit resource intensive, had a stubborn file copying algorithms, and device driver support from third parties weren't that great at release time. Beside that Win7 is after all a Vista SP1"+", and a damn fine OS until 2020. The worst Win OS was WinME, which was pretty unstable in comparison to older Win9x releases. I switched to Win2000 and then WinXP and never looked back. The second worst is Win8x and Win10 though. Rough and unfinished on the UI side, and too many phone home "features" under the hood. The WinMin kernel would be great though, but Windows is heading in the wrong direction (Azure cloud, OS as a service, plans for monthly subscription). It would have been great if the plans for WinFS and Longhorn shell would have been restarted and based on Win7 shell. A C++ based Longhorn UI shell would be great for enterprise and consumer. The search experience would be what one has today with SharePoint but insanely fast and proper integrated in to the Windows environment. The cloud offerings are a joke in comparison, sadly a regression in all fronts and they have no vision as it seems. The dreams of an x64 based Phone that could run Win32 applications like Photoshop - all gone. There is so much legacy, but very uncertain future of the platform. Even in enterprise world, which applications are still native? Only Office 2010 or the remarkable unstable 2013 is what every enterprise user still uses daily, everything else in on SharePoint, SAP (Java based client) or other intranet web applications or even internet web applications. And copying files around is more of an hassle than ever before. A native WinFS and a Longhorn UI would have been so great. Sadly, it's all history. </rant End>
- rbanffy 10y ago
  > a damn fine OS until 2020 Can it delete an open file?
  - frik 10y ago
    Weird question. I don't know what you mean with "it". As a user you can delete an open file, if you remove the file handle. A convenient way is the unlocker.exe tool.
    - rbanffy 10y ago
      "It" here is Windows. I know you can do that, but will the process that had it open be able to write to it?

I wonder if the project name for win10 was shoehorn.

mwcampbell 10y ago

No, it was Threshold.

voltagex_ 10y ago
Threshold, then Redstone.
- douche 10y ago
  Interesting, considering Microsoft has acquired Mojang
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    Yep, Threshold was Halo, Redstone is Minecraft. http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/08/windows-10-update-redstone/ http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/08/windows-10-update-redston...
NamTaf 10y ago
You missed the joke, unless I missed your counterjoke.

frik 10y ago

Yes. Vista was actually a fine release, just a bit resource intensive, had a stubborn file copying algorithms, and device driver support from third parties weren't that great at release time. Beside that Win7 is after all a Vista SP1"+", and a damn fine OS until 2020. The worst Win OS was WinME, which was pretty unstable in comparison to older Win9x releases. I switched to Win2000 and then WinXP and never looked back. The second worst is Win8x and Win10 though. Rough and unfinished on the UI side, and too many phone home "features" under the hood. The WinMin kernel would be great though, but Windows is heading in the wrong direction (Azure cloud, OS as a service, plans for monthly subscription). It would have been great if the plans for WinFS and Longhorn shell would have been restarted and based on Win7 shell. A C++ based Longhorn UI shell would be great for enterprise and consumer. The search experience would be what one has today with SharePoint but insanely fast and proper integrated in to the Windows environment. The cloud offerings are a joke in comparison, sadly a regression in all fronts and they have no vision as it seems. The dreams of an x64 based Phone that could run Win32 applications like Photoshop - all gone. There is so much legacy, but very uncertain future of the platform. Even in enterprise world, which applications are still native? Only Office 2010 or the remarkable unstable 2013 is what every enterprise user still uses daily, everything else in on SharePoint, SAP (Java based client) or other intranet web applications or even internet web applications. And copying files around is more of an hassle than ever before. A native WinFS and a Longhorn UI would have been so great. Sadly, it's all history. </rant End>

rbanffy 10y ago
> a damn fine OS until 2020 Can it delete an open file?
- frik 10y ago
  Weird question. I don't know what you mean with "it". As a user you can delete an open file, if you remove the file handle. A convenient way is the unlocker.exe tool.
  - rbanffy 10y ago
    "It" here is Windows. I know you can do that, but will the process that had it open be able to write to it?