As the Apple Turns: Scene 1808: We've Seen THIS Before (9/27/99)

We've Seen THIS Before (9/27/99)

Millennium!! It's an impressive word, right? It's something that happens once in a thousand years. It sends shivers right up the spine. Magnificent! Imposing! A breakthrough the likes of which we've never seen before! Unless, of course, you're talking about the "Millennium" version of Windows, which is sounding less impressive by the minute. Faithful viewer Jerry O'Neil points out a Sm@rt Reseller article which reveals that Microsoft's Next Big Consumer Operating System™ may not live up to its name.

Millennium was originally scheduled to be a major Windows upgrade available to consumers this month; instead, the first beta version of the OS is only just being seeded to testers this week. And while the original plans for the system included a multitude of new features like a "new user interface" and "Activity Centers" (which sound like OS-level "wizards" to guide users through specific application tasks), now it looks as though Millennium won't boast any new features at all. In fact, Millennium may turn out to be such a minor upgrade, Microsoft may release it as a downloadable Service Pack instead of a full shrink-wrapped operating system. And that's really saying something, considering that the shrink-wrapped Windows 98 was little more than Windows 95 plus a bunch of freely-downloadable bug fixes and the new version of Internet Explorer.

So now that Millennium is shaping up to be little more than a Windows 98 service release, perhaps its time that Microsoft rethinks its code name. Then again, maybe "Millennium" could still work; a name that connotes a sense of enormity and scope is still quite appropriate for a beta operating system that, according to a beta tester, is "bloated, taking up almost 2 GB of space." Good lord. It sounds like the Death Star of operating systems. Millennium, indeed.

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The above scene was taken from the 9/27/99 episode:

September 27, 1999: We have seen the future of consumer desktop computing, and its name is Kihei. Meanwhile, reports are trickling in from happy people confirming delivery of their bouncing baby iBooks, and Microsoft's "Millennium" operating system may not be all its name implies...

Other scenes from that episode:

1806: I Can See Clearly Now (9/27/99) Wow. Wow! No, really-- wow. Is any of this sinking in? Because "wow" is our admittedly unimaginative monosyllabic response to seeing an honest-to-goodness photograph of a Graphite "Kihei" iMac. And if you're not just saying "wow" over and over again yourself, you probably haven't seen it yet...
1807: What The Stork Brought (9/27/99) But Kihei is just what's next on the horizon for Apple's continued consumer success. While sales of current iMacs appear to be flagging slightly, what's making waves here and now is the iMac-To-Go: the iBook...

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