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Microsoft is taking a long time bringing it's next big OS to market. Code named Longhorn, recently officially announced as Vista, it's already been stripped of many of the cool promised features.
The underlying filesystem, WinFS, was supposed to be an abstraction layer, a database really, that would support meta data, versioning, searching, etc. Won't be in first release, coming soon, really, maybe available as a separate add on before then, don't hold your breath.
It was supposed to run on top of the CLR. This would make the OS effectively hardware independent, able to run on anything that had a CLR VM implemented. Just kidding.
Well, both those things are really big campaign promises, shame they won't be here, but they were tall orders. No one is particularly surprised. However, one of the promises was a scripting engine that would knock the hell out of WSH. For a programmer/admin, this is a big deal. What's more, it's fairly technically straightforward, probable rather than just possible.
Monad is the name of the new script interpreter. It doesn't matter what all the cool stuff it does is, it's DOA. A few days ago someone found you could use Monad for viruses. I thought, who cares, you can use perl for viruses, it's a computer language, that's the point. Well, Monad's been yanked. I was looking forward to it. I'm annoyed.
The underlying filesystem, WinFS, was supposed to be an abstraction layer, a database really, that would support meta data, versioning, searching, etc. Won't be in first release, coming soon, really, maybe available as a separate add on before then, don't hold your breath.
It was supposed to run on top of the CLR. This would make the OS effectively hardware independent, able to run on anything that had a CLR VM implemented. Just kidding.
Well, both those things are really big campaign promises, shame they won't be here, but they were tall orders. No one is particularly surprised. However, one of the promises was a scripting engine that would knock the hell out of WSH. For a programmer/admin, this is a big deal. What's more, it's fairly technically straightforward, probable rather than just possible.
Monad is the name of the new script interpreter. It doesn't matter what all the cool stuff it does is, it's DOA. A few days ago someone found you could use Monad for viruses. I thought, who cares, you can use perl for viruses, it's a computer language, that's the point. Well, Monad's been yanked. I was looking forward to it. I'm annoyed.