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.
Microsoft Cairo
Cairo Server login screen, based on Windows NT 4.0 Server (1175.1)
Cairo was announced at the 1991 MicrosoftProfessional 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 remaining component is the object file system. It was once planned to be implemented in the form of WinFS as part of Windows Vista but development was cancelled in June 2006, with some of its technologies merged into other Microsoft products such as Microsoft SQL Server 2008, also known under the codename "Katmai".[7]
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^Jon Udell (2005-09-07). . InfoWorld. Archived from the original on 2006-01-09. Retrieved 2007-01-07.
^Jon Udell (November 1996). . Byte. Archived from the original on 2007-02-25. Retrieved 2007-01-07.
^Kent Sullivan (April 17, 1996). . 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 2006-06-23.
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. 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.
January 18, 2023
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