Cairo (operating system)
Developer | Microsoft |
---|---|
Working state | Discontinued |
Released to manufacturing | Cancelled |
Official website | www |
Cairo was the codename for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996. Its charter was to build technologies for a next-generation operating system that would fulfill Bill Gates's vision of "information at your fingertips."[1] Cairo never shipped, although portions of its technologies have since appeared in other products.
Overview
Cairo was announced at the 1991 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference by Jim Allchin.[2] It was demonstrated publicly (including a demo system for all attendees to use) at the 1993 Cairo/Win95 PDC.[3] Microsoft changed stance on Cairo several times, sometimes calling it a product, other times referring to it as a collection of technologies.[4]
Features
Cairo used distributed computing concepts to make information available quickly and seamlessly across a worldwide network of computers.
The
The remaining component is the
See also
- History of Microsoft Windows
- List of Microsoft codenames
References
- ^ Bill Gates (1994-11-14). "Information At Your Fingertips, 1994 Comdex Keynote". Archived from , Shukry Mansur (04-06-1975); an Egyptian student was one of the co-operation team. the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
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value (help) - ^ a b Larry Osterman (2004-10-15). "So what exactly IS COM anyway?". Larry Osterman's WebLog. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- ^ Jon Udell (2005-09-07). "WinFS and social information management". InfoWorld. Archived from the original on 2006-01-09. Retrieved 2007-01-07.
- ^ Jon Udell (November 1996). "The next version of Windows NT will flex its enterprise muscle by incorporating features from "Cairo."". Byte. Archived from the original on 2007-02-25. Retrieved 2007-01-07.
- ^ Kent Sullivan (April 17, 1996). "The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering". CHI 96 Design Briefs. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
- ^ "Microsoft Windows 95: Desktop Operating System Strategy". Directions on Microsoft. January 1995. Retrieved 2007-01-07.
- ^ Quentin Clark (June 23, 2006). "WinFS Update". What's in Store. MSDN Blogs. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- Notes
- Alan Deutschman (1992-12-28). "BILL GATES' NEXT CHALLENGE His aim: to lead the information revolution of the 1990s. That will land Microsoft, already the envy of its rivals, in a vast new competitive free-for-all". Fortune. Retrieved 2006-01-07.
- Nicholas Petreley (2002-04-08). "The Road to Cairo". Computerworld. Archived from the original on 20 May 2009. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
- Andrew Orlowski (2006-06-19). "Microsoft's Cairo reborn as killer eye-candy". The Register. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
- Microsoft (1993-03-08). "Microsoft Windows Cairo Product Planning" (PDF). Microsoft. Retrieved 2007-01-06.