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Eirik Lygre writes:

>This is wrong. Cairo is not the same as Windows NT. Cairo is the codename
>for Microsofts next generation user interface. Do not expect to see Cairo
>(or a product of cairo technology) until 1994. Cairo has been showed
>publicly at least once, about 6 weeks back.

This is essentially correct.

What has been reported in the past is that Cairo is the code name
for the next major change to Windows. It involves a UI change and
the adoption of an object-oriented infrastructure, including a
distributed object store and other like services. The UI has been
demoed at the NT developers conference among other places. Though
it is running within Microsoft, the release date quoted in trade
journals is 1994.

>To make a short reference to mach: Microsoft now employes several of the
>former mach-researchers (I believe one of them was leading the mach
>project); these people now work mainly on Cairo, and not on Windows NT.
>It would probably be safe to assume, though, that the do "consultancy
>work" with the NT group -- they do know some microkernel stuff, after
>all.

This is mostly incorrect.

Rick Rashid, formerly of CMU and head of the Mach project, is now
director of research at Microsoft. The research group is working
on a variety of projects, and others from the Mach effort are in
that group as well. Cairo, however, is in Advanced Systems. The
research group contributes to Cairo (and NT) in many ways, but do
not work directly on the products -- consultancy is a good way
of expressing this.

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Edward Jung, Software Architect     edwardj@microsoft.com
Advanced Systems, Microsoft Corp.