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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:15:21 David Rosenthal And Blackcomb.
- ▶ 2:15:22 Ben Gilbert The ski mountain right next to Whistler is, yes, Blackcomb, which became the name for the theoretical release that they wanted to do, like, just a year or two after Vista.
- ▶ 2:15:36 Ben Gilbert But Blackcomb started becoming pretty technically hairy.
- ▶ 2:16:14 Ben Gilbert So that pushes Blackcomb's date out, and it also ties up a lot of the talent that Microsoft needs to start working on the next generation operating system, which again, they thought was gonna be a fast follow.
- ▶ 2:16:37 Ben Gilbert That sounds like a great name for a modest release to follow XP before we get to the big hard changes that are gonna come in Blackcomb.
- ▶ 2:16:50 David Rosenthal So I remember being like a teenager in high school at this point in time, and reading all about Longhorn, Blackcomb, all this stuff on the internet, you know, on these new tech sites, these blogs, being like,
- ▶ 2:18:47 David Rosenthal Well, there were three pillars of, I think it was all originally supposed to be Blackcomb,
- ▶ 2:22:07 David Rosenthal And what you're talking about here is the third pillar of Longhorn slash Blackcomb, which is WinFS, right?
- ▶ 2:28:30 David Rosenthal When you're a CEO, you have to engage with your OEM partners, you have to engage with enterprises, you have to engage with customers, and not that it's all Bill's fault by any means, but this Longhorn Black Home disaster, Ben, as you say,…