Note: This week I’m taking my first actual vacation in over 10 years. And in a harbinger of things it come, it was the first major Windows release that users shunned almost universally. But Vista wasn’t the Longhorn that Microsoft initially promised. The resulting product was ultimately named Windows Vista. But the project was too far-reaching, and too visionary, and after years of fruitless work, Jim Allchin and Bill Gates finally accepted the inevitable: Microsoft had to reset Longhorn and start over from scratch. Longhorn was to provide the foundation for a second decade of Windows dominance and catapult Microsoft past its non-innovative reputation.
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