This was from July 1st. MONAD was supposed to be Microsoft's BASH killer, with intergrated object-oriented programming. As far as I know, it was cut because they did not believe it could be made sufficiently secure in time to be released in a production system.
It's funny, in a way. Unix/Linux started out with a shell environment and then all the graphical elements were added on. Seems like Microsoft wants to make a GUI first and add a (supposedly) half-decent shell at the last minute. How surprising. On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 01:53 -0400, Russ Kay wrote: > Now I am certainly not on M$'s side here, but .NET wasn't cut, LDDM > wasn't > cut, WFS wasn't cut (well WFS integrates into VS2005 just > fine....well, as > fine as a M$ can). Indexing and integrated searching wasn't cut. > MONAD...don't know what that was an old name for. And I can't recall > what > Avalon and Indigo were....can't M$ use code names that are somewhat > easier > to associate? In any case, it's hard to read an argument when the > opening > statement is invalid. Also, by him referring to WinVista as Longhorn, > I > assume it's an old article? > -Russ
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