Microsoft game pack in COMPUSA national flier.

[Hammer]

OS5 will be the AmigaOS running natively in that AmigaDE environment. This paramount goal will have AmigaOS running everywhere. The argument that 'AmigaDE is not an Amiga' does not hold up here, it is moreso an Amiga than AOS3.X running in an amiga emulator. OS5 will bear a resemblance to the earlier Amiga OS's and will bear ultimate scalability. It certainly will be more Amiga-like than MOS/AROS.

Sound like the current AmigaOne situation i.e. the machine** is ready but the AmigaOS 4.0 is not ready for RTM (Released To Manufacturing).

**Referring to Tao's Virtual Processor and related technologies.

[Hammer]

NDA stands for 'non disclosure'

Everyone else,
Borland
Microsoft
Sun
IBM

they build exposure for their products.
they want reviews
they encourage sales.

Not all of Microsoft's projects are available to beta testing public e.g. MS Windows 2000 64bit Alpha**  Edition (use for internal development) (unless they are leaked).

**For the DEC Alpha processor platform .

[Hammer]

1) Is the DE an Amiga, or even Amiga-related ? Only by name.

Sure it is nice tech, but it is not even as close tio being "Amiga" as RiscOS/PC,BeOS/BOX or even QNX. Suggesting it would be more "Amiga" than MOS or AROS is just insane.

Unlike the ‘other’ products, DE has a official development future with Amiga. A scenario similar to the AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4.0.

[Hammer]

Like I said, it's a good thing that they got SOMETHING out. I just don't understand why Microsoft doesn't just set up a department to work with TAO to write the stuff.

That would involve extra manpower being allocated for yet another project. Note that dotNET Linux port was being “outsourced”(i.e. contracted to an other company). Microsoft has limits in regards to availability of manpower, funds and time.

Microsoft is thinly spread from creating MS Games (e.g. under Anvil label)(both X-BOX and X86 Windows PCs/Servers), Official MS driver support, MS Office product families, MS Visual Studio families, MS Operating systems families**, MS related services (e.g. Bcentral, MSN and etc).  

 **On going product development of Anvil (a.k.a. Windows XP/2003 AMD 64 families**** and Longhorn (the next generation of Windows).  
Does anyone notice the relationship with MS’s games Anvil label (e.g. Freelancer) and Anvil code-name for Windows AMD64 Edition? (Another topic)

As with any human enterprise, Microsoft has limits.