MS Windows Vista, may be the only product in the history of Microsoft which took five years to come to the shelf, but the result is worth all that wait.

Microsoft started its development on Vista way back in 2001 with a vision of developing an Operating System which would consists of every possible feature imaginable, initially it was being developed on top of Windows XP, i.e the code base would be of Windows XP, code named Longhorn, I still remember how excited I was to get glimpses of screen shots and wallpapers of this new Windows avatar slapped with Longhorn all over them, but unfortunately Microsoft screwed up, Microsoft realized it was a vision which would not be possible to achieve unless done progressively and in logical fashion.

Longhorn went back to the storyboards, came out as Vista and with major feature cuts, the new Vista is now based on Window 2003 code base.

All's Well That Ends Well, lets hope for the best!

Adios!

Labels: Microsoft, Software, Windows Vista

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