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We're kinda feeling like the Seattle internets are dead -like ghost town dead- right now and we're attributing it to Microsoft. Internet Expolorer 7 is here. Media Player 11 is here. Office 2007 is coming. Vista is coming. We don't mean to short anyone else's project by failing to mention it, but that already is just about every high-consumer-visibility piece of software that Redmond makes. Is this like the most productive couple of months in the history of the company right here? Try to imagine another three or four month period of time when Microsoft shipped as much software as they are right now. We dare you. By any reasonable metric we bet they haven't done it. Seattlest prize pack if you can come up with one.
That means that by our reckoning half of Redmond is frantically throwing Vista together --and they're way past "make it work right" time and well into "make it work" territory-- and the other half is on the phone with a real estate/travel/dating agent (or employment agent) attempting to get that pesky personal-life stuff they've been putting off for the past few cycles in before it's time to start on the next version.
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Well in fourth quarter 2001 there was, Windows XP, Office XP, Outlook Express 6, Windows Media Player 8 Internet Explorer 6 and the Xbox. So where is my prize?
I don't know... Windows XP != Vista in terms of development. Not even close. Outlook Express 6 is also questionably of the same scale as the rest of these and IE 6 was more of an incremental release... I'll give you the Xbox, good call, but no prize pack awarded.
Well the hype around Windows XP was about how a mainstream "NT" based OS was supposed to make everything secure and easy to use for everybody.
Of course Vista was suppposed to solve the security problems of XP.. XP was supposed to solve the security problems of Windows ME, Windows ME was supposed to solve the security problems of Windows 98 that was supposed to solve the security problems of Windows 95 that was supposed to solve the security problems of Win 3.1.
Anyone see a pattern here?
Also XP was the first NT based consumer OS from Microsoft. NT development started in 1988 so it was being worked on for 13 years before Win XP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Development
So if no one can beat my entry of Q4 2001 do I win by default? I mean Windows XP, Office XP, Outlook Express 6, Windows Media Player 8 Internet Explorer 6 and the Xbox is nothing to snear at.