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Project M
« on: July 08, 2005, 12:55:09 pm »
Hmm, intresting.

"Sources close to Microsoft told me this week that the software giant has started a mysterious new software project called Project M, which might be a replacement for the Windows shell in Longhorn. Heading Project M is none other than Hillel Cooperman, the user experience guru who presented Longhorn's UI ideas to developers at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October 2003. Cooperman reports directly to Chris Jones, who recently returned to the Windows client team. Jones, in turn, reports directly to Will Poole, senior vice president of Windows Client Business. Project M is described internally only as Windows "shell enhancements," a mysteriously vague description. The project is secret even to most people at Microsoft and won't likely be added to Longhorn until the beta 2 or even the Release Candidate 0 (RC0) release. One source theorized that Project M is to Longhorn as Luna was to Windows XP: Early XP (then known as Whistler) betas used a UI called Watercolor that Microsoft eventually dropped. The UI in today's Longhorn builds, which we'll soon see in beta 1, could likewise be pushed aside for something more visually impressive."

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Re: Project M
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2005, 01:29:06 pm »
Windows? Shell?

Haha, oxymorons!
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Re: Project M
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2005, 06:23:00 pm »
They're probably going to steal Bash's functionality or something.
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Re: Project M
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2005, 06:44:47 pm »
Shell as in explorer.exe..
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Re: Project M
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2005, 06:45:40 pm »
Shell as in command prompt, heh.
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Re: Project M
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2005, 07:09:19 pm »
Explorer.exe is considered a Windows Shell I'd assume this replacement was for that, if they are replacing the command prompt then they are really stuff
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Re: Project M
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2005, 07:10:50 pm »
No clue what they'll do. Hopefully, it'll be good though.  :P
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Re: Project M
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2005, 01:40:36 pm »
Man. I'll need to buy a new computer to support Longhorn.

I don't have those kind of fuckin specs on this thing! Gay.

As iago said, " I don't need my OS to have more resource killage then my software. " or something like that.
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Re: Project M
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2005, 03:51:03 pm »
Quote from: deadly7 on July 10, 2005, 01:40:36 pm
Man. I'll need to buy a new computer to support Longhorn.

I don't have those kind of fuckin specs on this thing! Gay.

As iago said, " I don't need my OS to have more resource killage then my software. " or something like that.

I don't believe I used the word "killage"
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Re: Project M
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2005, 04:13:45 pm »
I don't believe that's a word. And, by the time longhorn comes out I should have a new computer. And, it'll be top of the line anyway.
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Re: Project M
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2005, 11:17:24 pm »
Quote from: iago on July 10, 2005, 03:51:03 pm
Quote from: deadly7 on July 10, 2005, 01:40:36 pm
Man. I'll need to buy a new computer to support Longhorn.

I don't have those kind of fuckin specs on this thing! Gay.

As iago said, " I don't need my OS to have more resource killage then my software. " or something like that.

I don't believe I used the word "killage"
"eat up" "killage" Same deal. Shut up Canadian! (the only insult i have on iago, sadly -.-)
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Re: Project M
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2005, 03:25:59 am »
Im taking up the stance that I'll believe it when I have a Longhorn CD in my hands that contains it. Its not really important what it is as I suspect it will get dropped or pushed back at some point.

On another note, it would be nice if Microsoft made a nice bash-like command shell.
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Re: Project M
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2005, 12:56:50 pm »
Quote from: zorm on July 13, 2005, 03:25:59 am
Im taking up the stance that I'll believe it when I have a Longhorn CD in my hands that contains it. Its not really important what it is as I suspect it will get dropped or pushed back at some point.
Like, say, WinFS?  ;-)
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