Windows versions that never came out

[Uriel]

Windows Tiger = the next 9x OS
Windows ME SE = speaks for itself doesn't it
Windows ME Corporate Edition = this one is actually availible, but bugy as hell even though there is no real difference
Windows Neptune = an alpha version of whistler/xp, I have it
Windows 2000 SE = merged in with whistler at a early stage
Windows 98 ThirdEd. = this became ME or at least merged with it

there are some more variations of early XP/whistler/neptune/2000 SE
but they all merged into Whistler beta 1

in the future we have Blackcomb or NT6, it will sport a completely redesigned kernel
leaving the NT/9X days behind us

it will prolly be nice since MS has confirmed that they actually pay a lot of attention to Mac OS X and Unix nowadays
but hard/software is gonna be a b!tch since it's a whole new kernel

please add more info if you have it

here are some screenies to look at for you:
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46115110/Blackcomb 644b/clean.gif
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46115110/Blackcomb 644b/Explorer6.1.gif
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46115110/Blackcomb 644b/winver.gif
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46115110/Blackcomb 644b/dxdiag.gif
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46115110/Blackcomb 644b/867.gif
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46115110/Blackcomb 644b/install.gif
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46115110/Blackcomb 644b/1230.gif
http://www.microsoft.com/jobs/design/images/windows_4.jpg
http://www.maxprogramming.com/windows/blackcomb.jpg
http://www.activewin.com/imagene//misc/2001/winmax.gif
http://betatester.tin.it/images/blackbomb.jpg
http://guru3d.com/-/20010219-03.jpg
http://www.21hover.com/soft/dataimg/blackcomb-2.gif =)
http://www.windowstuning.de/blackcmb.gif
http://www.geocities.com/blackcomb644/build644.jpg
http://1freespace.com/chocstarfish/netsetup7[1].jpg
http://1freespace.com/chocstarfish/windowsnet%202[1].jpg

try this but it seems to be down
http://www.etplanet.net/windows/blackcomb/


I made the ones with the "telia" in the adress

please add more =)

hre's one of Windows Tiger:
http://1freespace.com/chocstarfish/tiger.jpg


I'll add some Neptune pics if anyone is interested?
and as many others I can find

 

[Uriel]

oh yeah

oh yeah

all of these are fakes btw

but the OSes exist
or at least was planned to exist

 

[Sasquach]

And when they ever come out, its gonna take another like 10yrs before its completely stable and secure with no security holes and junk

 

[Uriel]

Neptune screen collection

Neptune screen collection

http://betanet.dns2go.com/neptune.htm

a couple of the links point in the wrong direction and will leed to XP pics instead...

 

[Andrew275]

Also, don't forget about Windows Cairo: the object oriented Windows that never was.

 

[Mr.Genocide]

Give microsoft come credit, Windows 2000 and XP are great, no reason to think that the NT6 based on wont be.

 

[Uriel]

Andrew275

Andrew275

any more info on Cairo?

 

[Andrew275]

I couldn't find much about it on Google, but I remember reading about it. It was supposed to be some kind of radically new object-oriented Windows. No one seems to be exactly sure what made up Cairo, though, as it was really just an idea. I think Microsoft has implemented a few ideas from Cairo in later versions of Windows, but they've more or less forgotten the idea. At least for now.

 

[david_eales]

etplanet is there but the domain www.etplanet.net doesnt seem to work use this one instead http://etplanet.da.ru/