{"id":277,"date":"2006-11-02T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T08:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/277"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:13:15","slug":"microsoft-murders-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/microsoft-murders-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Murders Max"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Well, it’s official at any rate. Contrary to what you’ve heard, Windows Vista will not<\/em> be shipping with any of the original technologies, features, capabilities, or subsystems originally promised (and for those of you that really<\/em> couldn’t tell: it’s called sarcasm!). First it was the real Aero \u2013 complete visual control over one\u2019s system. Amazing graphics, sidebars that were a part of the Windows Core, Aero Diamond<\/em>. Then it was NGSCB<\/a><\/abbr> and its amazing security features \u2013 not DRM, but total privacy control; your<\/em> privacy. Monad. Last we heard, it was WinFS<\/a>, the king-pin feature that was promised to change the way you think of data\u2026 And now the last one is gone: Microsoft Max<\/a> is dead<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n

Microsoft Max was a \u201cvirtual photo albums and distributing them online in a peer-to-peer fashion.\u201d But it was more than just a sharing tool, it, in-keeping with the original Longhorn \u201ctradition\u201d provided a different way of looking at the data stored on your drive. Microsoft Max + WinFS would have been a formidable duo, but alas, it was not to be. For example, \u201c3D Mantle View\u201d (pictured above), treated albums as individual items. It provide a way to visually \u201cstack\u201d these and photos on top and around each other in ways that pertained to the way you actually used them \u2013 visualization of information movement.\n<\/p>\n

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But its biggest potential was the P2P functionality<\/abbr>. No, it wasn\u2019t KazAa, but it wasn\u2019t meant to be. It\u2019s not for sharing photos of your family vacation so much as it was for team collaboration, sharing of thoughts and ideas<\/em> conveyed by means of <\/em>a simple photo<\/a>. Oh yeah, that reminds us \u2013 Vista\u2019s previously well-developed PC-to-PC collaborative synchronization work protocol was also exorcised a couple of months ago. It seems Microsoft is dedicated to not <\/strong>shipping Vista with anything that might be deemed useful.\n<\/p>\n

Again, just like when WinFS was officially killed<\/a>, it\u2019s not like we couldn\u2019t see it coming. Microsoft Max hasn\u2019t been touched in almost a year (March 6, 2006 to be exact), and Vista obviously hit Beta 2, RC1, and \u201cRC2\u201d without it \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t make it OK though. Yesterday Microsoft came forward and announced a final and \u201cno matter what\u201d RTM date (not RTM build, but actual Release-to-Manufacturer) of November 30th, 2006. Yesterday Microsoft came forward and killed the last remaining member of the Longhorn information-control vision. Coincidence? Probably not.\n<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter why or how, and it doesn\u2019t matter when the actual decision was made. What does matter is that Microsoft had a killer idea for a media-centric collaboration platform, and they killed it. But this is a bit different from WinFS & Co. Microsoft Max can be<\/em> built as stand-alone application, and it doesn\u2019t have to be Microsoft that does it. It was a great idea, and Microsoft had first \u201cdibs\u201d so to speak, but that doesn\u2019t mean that the idea has to die along with it.\n<\/p>\n

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