What is Whistler?

[dmw16]

I heard someone mentioned an operating system called Windows Whistler. What is it exactly. I thought that Whistler was what ME was originally called. Is Whistler something totally different? Can I get it somewhere?
thanks,
-doug

 

[josphstalinator]

its not me its the next version of the nt kernel

 

[IamDavid]

Its Microsofts next big OS. Its currently in beta testing and will be released in 2K1.

 

[jsm]

Whistler is essentially the merging of two product lines in the eyes of Microsoft. What it seems to be so far is really just Windows 2001. I don't know all the big features MS has planned for it, though.

What it is supposed to be is moving people away from the 9x kernel and onto the NT kernel. Of course, with so many folks (in theory) still using hardware that wants to directly access hardware, Microsoft had to wait some time before moving people to the NT kernel.

 

[timco]

You can have a look at a review of the Beta 1 of Whistler by clicking here and following the appropriate link...

 

[doug]

Actually it is a great ski area in Western Canada. Whistler/Blackcomb is often just referred to as Whistler. If you ski and you haven't been there you just don't get it .

 

[aUt0eXebat]

My college prof said it is a combination of win 2000 and 98 together

 

[rc5]

It's a product from Microsoft which needs merely 256MB ram to run and 2GB to install.

 

[FOBSIDE]

does anyone else find whistler to be completely ugly? geez, i cant stand the thing.

 

[ltk007]

I like whistler. IE 5.6 is great and gaming is significantly faster. Still needs some bugs worked out though.

 

[najar]

i can't imagine how bloated this beast would be considering that Win2k requires a system with the min. of 256MB ram, 600MHz PIII (or comperable CPU). This is certainly great for the hardware manufactures and OEMs.

 

[JellyBaby]

Bloat fuels the need for new hardware which in turn creates more capacity for more bloat...loopus infinitae.

 

[jacobnero6918]

I run W2K with 160megs and a 500mhz cpu and it runs better than 98 ever did.

The whistler version is not 98 and 2000 combined though. There just making the NT code more friendly and usable, adding features like plug and play and better hardware compatilbity. 2000 was a huge leap over NT 4.0 in terms of features. There basically dropping the ancient dos code!

Whistler is due in April!

 

[JellyBaby]

jacobnero6918,

Somehow I doubt they'll make April. December maybe but not April.

 

[erub]

April seems unlikely. BTW I ran Win2k betas on a Dell Dimension XPS M200 -Pentium 200 MMX, 64 RAM, and it was okay..Windows choking on the RAM though.

 

[jhassi]

<< i can't imagine how bloated this beast would be considering that Win2k requires a system with the min. of 256MB ram, 600MHz PIII (or comperable CPU). >>



man, where do you guys get your rumours from?? LOL that's funny, why didn't you just throw dual processors in there to make it sound real bad?? Maybe Win2k Web Server needs that, but heck w2k pro runs great on 128megs.

No, Whistler Pro won't require any more than 64megs, probably 32 for personal. Come on people, 128megs is $40, why are you bitching?

Yes, Whistler combines ME and W2K, so (hopefully) you'll have all the stability of W2K but all the compatibility of ME, which would be great, i'm sure developers will love it, no more will they have to support two operating systems.

What's the best thing about Whistler?? Whistler Pro supports dual processors CAn you say Quake III with dual p4 1.5ghz processors? 3 0 0 0 m h z ! ! !

 

[Yoshi]

Man, a lot of people talk out their a$$ on this forum.

I also run Win2K on one machine with 64Mb RAM and a 300Mhz CPU, and another with 160Mb RAM and a 700Mhz CPU. Obviously the 160/700 system is faster but both are completely useable.

And IMO Win2K is better than Win95/98/ME ever was or ever will be. And, yes you can use it as a gaming OS. Most games work out of the box, a few require some tricks.

 

[SmiZ]

News I have heard regarding Whistler is that it is going to merge the NT and 9x versions of the operating systems. I ran an early Beta of it and was moderately impressed. It is supposed to be very web integrated, but as of right now, most of what we're saying is speculation. Unless of course, any of you out there are actually writing or testing it, then I'd be very interested in what you had to say.

 

[Doh!]

So far, I really haven't noticed any significant improvement in whistler beta 1 than the currently very stable win2k. However, I do like IE5.6 and whistler appears a bit faster in certain areas (i.e., emptying your trash can, searching the network). I think OE5.6 has some serious bugs though (certain html-based e-mails get trashed). If you're looking for a combination of win9x and nt/win2k then whistler &quot;personal&quot; version would be more appropriate as it would have more gaming/entertaint features whereas whistler &quot;pro&quot; would be more appropriate for the current win2k pro hardcore users. Just my 2c.

 

[jacobnero6918]

<< Somehow I doubt they'll make April. December maybe but not April. >>




Yeah probably more like christmas 2001 which means they may have to call it Windows 2002 instead of 2001.