The view on Vista

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON WINDOWS NETWORKING TIPS
08/01/05
Today's focus: The view on Vista

Dear networking.world@gmail.com,

In this issue:

* Windows Vista: How to get Beta 1 and a likely shipping
  schedule
* Links related to Windows Networking Tips
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: The view on Vista

By Dave Kearns

If one more pundit, one more reporter or one more half-wit
writes or says "Hasta la Vista, Windows!" to me, I'll scream so
loud that they'll here me in Latvia where - these same humorists
will tell you - "vista" means "chicken."

"Vista," in case you've been in a locked room with no windows,
no power and no batteries for a week, is the official, shipping
and marketing name for the next version of Windows desktop
software, what we've come to know and loathe, er love, as
"Longhorn"
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072205-vista.html?rl>.

Some background: Windows came in numbered versions for almost 10
years: Versions 1, 2 and 3 right up through 3.11. Next came
Windows NT, which started at Version 3.5 and went up all the way
to Version 4. At that point, Microsoft switched - still using
numbers, but 2- and 4-digit ones that looked like years: Windows
95, 98, 2000, and 2003 (some applications, such as Microsoft
Office, also came in a "97" version).

Tiring of that, the great minds in Redmond again switched, to
two-alphabetic characters: Windows ME and Windows XP. Now, it
appears, that another switch has occurred, to something that
most closely resembles a codename. Remember "Chicago,"
"Nashville," "Acrylic," "Whitehorse," "Blackcomb," "Whistler"?

Dutch MCSE Steven Bink http://bink.nu/Home.bink has collected
what he claims is the most complete list on the Internet of
Microsoft codenames at
<http://bink.nu/Default.aspx?tabindex=3&tabid=8>
and it does include a few that I don't remember (Onion? Kato?).
"Vista" would fit right in with this list. Ten years from now,
we may have difficulty remembering if "Vista" was the marketing
name for "Longhorn" or vice-versa.

But the bottom line isn't about the name. The bottom line is
that Longhorn is finally shipping in a "sort of public" Beta 1
version
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072605-vista-beta.html?rl>
which indicates that the shipping release shouldn't be more
than six to nine months away, with a public preview sometime in
between. I say "sort of public" because Beta 1 is available to a
large group of people but you have to be a member of the
Microsoft Developer network (MSDN) or a subscriber to Microsoft
TechNet in order to get your hands on a copy right now
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt4098>.

Information on Vista
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista> is much more
than what was available when it was still called Longhorn, and
should become more plentiful as we approach the shipping date.

If you can get Beta 1 by all means do so. Put it in a lab
machine that's not attached to your production network and run
it through its paces. But we've still got a ways to go before
it's shipping and even longer before it's ready for your users,
so you can afford to be patient right now.

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. Furor over Cisco IOS router exploit erupts at Black Hat
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt4099>

2. Cisco, ISS, Michael Lynn and Black Hat sign legal accord
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt4100>

3. Researcher at center of Cisco router-exploit controversy
speaks out <http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt4101>

4. 2005 Salary Survey <http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt3873>

5. Cisco nixes conference session on hacking IOS router code
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt4102>
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To contact: Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.

Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these

respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.

Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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network experts. Read how network executives are keeping a firm
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