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HisServant: Stop following me around and thumbing me down KK.
I guess Vista was a failure, or they just want to get some extra credit...
Anyway, Windows 7 is actually the successor to Windows XP..it was started before Vista but was put aside temporarily.
And HisServant> No, not really. Vista is garbage, and since XP is supported until 2014..you'd have been better off skipping it.
Well, it's a good thing I have several computers with Vista, and others with XP still. . .
So that means I don't have to upgrade my OS til 2014, kickass.
Long live XP.
Question Chaut, why did they release Vista then? I mean its not like it was better to XP anyway, looked like a step backwards for MS on the OS end.
Later Blackcomb (Windows 7) was delayed and an interim minor release, codenamed "Longhorn", was announced for a 2003 release. By the middle of 2003, however, Longhorn had acquired some of the features originally intended for Blackcomb, including WinFS, the Desktop Window Manager, and new versions of system components built on the .NET Framework. After the 2003 "Summer of Worms", where three major viruses -- Blaster, Sobig, and Welchia -- exploited flaws in Windows operating systems within a short time period, Microsoft changed their development priorities, putting some of Longhorn's major development work on hold in order to develop new service packs for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that included a number of new security and safety features. Development of Longhorn was also "reset" in September 2004 (see Mid-2004 to Mid-2005: Development "reset") as a result of concerns about the quality of code that was being introduced to the operating system. The eventual result of this was that WinFS, the Next Generation Secure Computing Base, and other features seen in Longhorn builds were deemed "not ready" for wide release, and as such did not appear in Longhorn, when it was released as Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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