Talk:Cairo (operating system)
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[edit] name of this article
In early August, an editor renamed this article to Windows "Cairo". I've renamed it back to its prior name, Cairo (operating system). The reason for this is that the in-quotes codename is something that has developed in the last few years when discussing beta versions of Windows software, in lieu of a final name. The press, and Microsoft themselves, didn't use this naming pattern when discussing Cairo. Being internally consistent in terms of how we represent products with codenames isn't important... what's important is how other people refer to it, and that we are consistent with that. -/- Warren 22:24, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] cairo -> xp
if we read the letters of "xp" greek, we read it "chi"-"rho", "cairo".
is there a correlation between xp and cairo? --80.219.164.136 15:46, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Nope .. not sure why the Cairo name came into being, but the in -joke was that it was in the way from Chicago to Memphis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeff.homme (talk • contribs) 20:50, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Other trivia.
1. You could determine a Cairo developer on the main campus by the distinctive black jackets with a narrow piping of neon-pink/red on each sleeve to shoulder. 2. The unofficial Cairo motto was Novus Ordo Objectorum (The Object is Beauty). Which I believe was in reference to the heavy usage off OOP in the product. 3. At some point when you were logging on there was a little pyramid icon that got built layer by layer (kind of like an hourglass. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeff.homme (talk • contribs) 20:56, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Confusing Features Section
The article states that the Cairo (which I guess would be pronounced Kayro, like the town in southern Illinois, if that bit about being between Chicago and Memphis is true) was developed in 1991-1999. Yet in the features section, the article then leaps ahead to WinFS, Vista, and Windows 7. I don't see the relationship here. If the article just indicates that a file object system was intended for Cairo and points out that one such system was intended for Vista, I think it could be transitioned better. The way the article currently reads sounds like WinFS was originally crafted as part of Cairo. According to the WinFS article, WinFS was first demoed in 2003, four years after the cancellation of Cairo. If that section of the article could be improved for clarity, that would be great. Mandanthe1 08:35, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Shameless advertizing?
Bill Gates' vision of "information at your fingertips.", it says. Sounds very much like he invented this phrase and vision, so it should be probably re-phrased (even though it was him who made it popular like 18 years later, it wasn't his idea). --80.134.52.38 16:53, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Who did have this "vision" anyway? It was someone at Xerox, perhaps Alan Kay, but does someone know this for sure?
so windows me was a bug
[edit] Vaporware???
Shouldn't we add something about how it made people wait for years upon years for a product that never actually came to complete fruition in a single, integrated product? All Cairo really was was Microsoft introducing the concept of stuff a decade and a half before it was possible to be implemented on the average desktop computer.
Cairo was not just "another cool thing from Redmond", it was vaporware intended to damage Microsoft's competition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.165.246.61 (talk) 09:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
