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- Path: sparky!uunet!monsoon!sg
- From: sg@monsoon.com (Sunil Gupta)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Recursive folders?
- Message-ID: <8HHDoB1w164w@monsoon.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 12:11:42 EDT
- References: <1682C66B3.CIVENBAH@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- Organization: Monsoon Software, Inc.
- Lines: 32
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- CIVENBAH@mizzou1.missouri.edu writes:
-
- > In article <1992Jul21.200758.28760@microsoft.com>
- > alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
- >
- > >But it is our design intent that Windows & Windows NT have
- > >a consistant UI - and therefore the first release of Windows NT
- > >will have the same shell features as Windows 3.1. (more accurately
- > >Windows for Workgroups) We have talked a little about Windows
- > >Cairo - this is the work where we will improve the shell. This
- > >work will be seen in later Windows releases
- >
- > Considering the fact that the Windows 3.0 interface has been
- > around for a couple of years now, it could be tought of as "a
- > bit stale". Also considering the fact that OS/2 has a new
- > object-oriented shell, it is apparent that the Windows interface
- > will be considered by many as somewhat lacking when NT is released.
- > Would you care to comment on this and/or perhaps provide some
- > sort of time frame for when MS would *like* (as opposed to
- > committing to a firm target date) to have "Cairo" implemented
- > on Windows?
- >
- > Brian.
-
- From the impression I got from talking to Jim Allchin (the project
- leader for Cairo), the current intended delivery date for Cairo is
- somewhere in 1994, but there are so many unexplored issues, that
- date should be viewed as a best-case scenario.
-
- Sunil Gupta
- Monsoon Software, Inc.
- sg@monsoon.com
-