Monad shell hacked

[grandpa]

Microsoft's newest operating system in beta only a week, but already leaky. [pcworld.com]

I bet the fellow that wrote this hack didn't sleep more than 20 hours in that week, and never went out once!

[bill]

It turns out that this wasn't a Vista virus after all. This was a Monad virus. Monad was released in beta in June as part of the WinFX software development kit, but not as a part of Vista. There are no plans to include the Monad shell in Vista it seems, so the honors for the first Vista virus have yet to be claimed.

[grandpa]

True enough, it appears to be an official announcement that Monad will not appear in futures releases of Vista. There was some earlier debate/speculation on that point. However, there are still plans to include it in Longhorn Server, scheduled for 2007 release.