Project ​"​Quattro&quo​t;

A number of you (MSFT guys) know what this is, likewise at least one of you claim to be under NDAs about it.

C'mon, spill the beans!

Charles: get a video with the Quattro team!

Link?

W3bbo wrote:

A number of you (MSFT guys) know what this is, likewise at least one of you claim to be under NDAs about it.

C'mon, spill the beans!

Charles: get a video with the Quattro team!

If there is an NDA in place then you're not going to get any beans spilled, y'know...

My money is on a new Tablet PC based UI.
Project Quatro
An old project name but recently updated page. The Pricipal involved is on the Technical Advisory Board for Microsoft Research.
One of the Co-Pis Tom Doeppner has the " Electronic Notebook Project"
Date 2003 as his current work.

Wow what a big conclusion from random out of date web pages. I should write for the papers!

CplCarrot wrote:

My money is on a new Tablet PC based UI.

Actually, it's the codename for something along the lines of "Windows Home Server 2007", Paul Thurrot mentioned it briefly in 2004[1], Vista Home Premium can join domains created by Home Server, undoubtably it would include Media Server functionality.

[1]Look under the "Networking" header in the comparison table at the bottom.

W3bbo, if you truly have information that is typically released only under an NDA, then why do you go and "spill the beans" yourself? If Quattro is indeed a secret, non-disclosed project of Microsoft...why would you speak out about it...a little disrespectful, no?

Because he wnats to feel like a big man after his "new C9" that he posted earlier.  Not impressed... Go back to complaining about web standards that aren't being met and how you need someone to circumvent the universities internet connection because the IT folk are spying on your remote desktop sessions

Am I the only one who thought of this?

SlackmasterK wrote:

Am I the only one who thought of this?

Me too.  Actually, I would love for VS to someday be able to create console-UI apps like this (very old school Norton-ish).

Man, I had a full windowing toolkit in Turbo Pascal 5.5 for DOS apps. It was super sweet, even object oriented...

I guess Home Server is the response to a lot of people running the server version instead of the client. Why would that be, I give you a clue: Because it's newer. And faster, which is the case with XP vs 2k3, since latter got in the additional six months of additional beta a better scheduler and memory manager.

W3bbo wrote:

A number of you (MSFT guys) know what this is, likewise at least one of you claim to be under NDAs about it.

C'mon, spill the beans!

To be honest I'd rather wait until it is released, just in case I like it and it is cancelled.

Ok, everything I write here is speculation.  Back in January 2005 I wrote a blog post titled "Windows Server, Home Edition" (My blog was called "Blobservations" back then).  It got a bit of linkage a few weeks later from folks like Kindel and Scoble, but the interesting angle is that even before there were any public links to that post, I got almost 500 hits that appeared to come from the Microsoft campus (according to the IP addresses in my server logs).  I'm guessing that I had either stumbled upon something that they were already working on, or that they actually thought it was a good idea.

Later in June, Mary Jo Foley reported on some comments from Bob Muglia, I added this update to the post in my blog:

Looks like this may actually come to pass.  Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley reports on some comments from Bob Muglia.  When asked about the possibility of a server product for the home, he replied: "We are always looking for new opportunities where server technology can be leveraged, and the home definitely represents an exciting new area that we are looking at along with many others. Much of the great storage, replication, and management technology would be great in a home.  We have seen many people install Small Business Servers at home, which really works quite well." 

I don't remember where, but somewhere I saw someone refer to this Home Server idea as "Quattro".   So my guess is that Quattro is a version of Small Business Server that has been forked and modified for the home network. 

Updated:

The Paul Thurrott link above (http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_editions_final.asp) is where I got the "Quattro" reference from.  It's actually from March 2006, not 2004.

RickH wrote:



Ok, everything I write here is speculation.  Back in January 2005 I wrote a blog post titled "Windows Server, Home Edition" (My blog was called "Blobservations" back then).  It got a bit of linkage a few weeks later from folks like Kindel and Scoble, but the interesting angle is that even before there were any public links to that post, I got almost 500 hits that appeared to come from the Microsoft campus (according to the IP addresses in my server logs).  I'm guessing that I had either stumbled upon something that they were already working on, or that they actually thought it was a good idea.

Later in June, Mary Jo Foley reported on some comments from Bob Muglia, I added this update to the post in my blog:

Looks like this may actually come to pass.  Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley reports on some comments from Bob Muglia.  When asked about the possibility of a server product for the home, he replied: "We are always looking for new opportunities where server technology can be leveraged, and the home definitely represents an exciting new area that we are looking at along with many others. Much of the great storage, replication, and management technology would be great in a home.  We have seen many people install Small Business Servers at home, which really works quite well." 

I don't remember where, but somewhere I saw someone refer to this Home Server idea as "Quattro".   So my guess is that Quattro is a version of Small Business Server that has been forked and modified for the home network. 

Updated:

The Paul Thurrott link above (http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_editions_final.asp) is where I got the "Quattro" reference from.  It's actually from March 2006.

Nice work.

I think we'll know for sure when we get our mitts on an RTM Windows Vista Home Premium distro and peek around its networking stack.

RickH wrote:



Ok, everything I write here is speculation.  Back in January 2005 I wrote a blog post titled "Windows Server, Home Edition" (My blog was called "Blobservations" back then).  It got a bit of linkage a few weeks later from folks like Kindel and Scoble, but the interesting angle is that even before there were any public links to that post, I got almost 500 hits that appeared to come from the Microsoft campus (according to the IP addresses in my server logs).  I'm guessing that I had either stumbled upon something that they were already working on, or that they actually thought it was a good idea.

Later in June, Mary Jo Foley reported on some comments from Bob Muglia, I added this update to the post in my blog:

Looks like this may actually come to pass.  Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley reports on some comments from Bob Muglia.  When asked about the possibility of a server product for the home, he replied: "We are always looking for new opportunities where server technology can be leveraged, and the home definitely represents an exciting new area that we are looking at along with many others. Much of the great storage, replication, and management technology would be great in a home.  We have seen many people install Small Business Servers at home, which really works quite well." 

I don't remember where, but somewhere I saw someone refer to this Home Server idea as "Quattro".   So my guess is that Quattro is a version of Small Business Server that has been forked and modified for the home network. 

Updated:

The Paul Thurrott link above (http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_editions_final.asp) is where I got the "Quattro" reference from.  It's actually from March 2006, not 2004.

And we all said "Oh, crap. How did this guy find out?!? Who leaked?"  And then we realized that you just had similar ideas and were obviously very smart .

FWIW, the original project codename was "Quattro". Once we moved out of incubation into being a product we renamed ourselves "Q" and Q was the working codename for the product until we announced this week.

RickH wrote:



Ok, everything I write here is speculation.  Back in January 2005 I wrote a blog post titled "Windows Server, Home Edition" (My blog was called "Blobservations" back then).  It got a bit of linkage a few weeks later from folks like Kindel and Scoble, but the interesting angle is that even before there were any public links to that post, I got almost 500 hits that appeared to come from the Microsoft campus (according to the IP addresses in my server logs).  I'm guessing that I had either stumbled upon something that they were already working on, or that they actually thought it was a good idea.

Later in June, Mary Jo Foley reported on some comments from Bob Muglia, I added this update to the post in my blog:

Looks like this may actually come to pass.  Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley reports on some comments from Bob Muglia.  When asked about the possibility of a server product for the home, he replied: "We are always looking for new opportunities where server technology can be leveraged, and the home definitely represents an exciting new area that we are looking at along with many others. Much of the great storage, replication, and management technology would be great in a home.  We have seen many people install Small Business Servers at home, which really works quite well." 

I don't remember where, but somewhere I saw someone refer to this Home Server idea as "Quattro".   So my guess is that Quattro is a version of Small Business Server that has been forked and modified for the home network. 

Updated:

The Paul Thurrott link above (http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_editions_final.asp) is where I got the "Quattro" reference from.  It's actually from March 2006, not 2004.

And we all said "Oh, crap. How did this guy find out?!? Who leaked?"  And then we realized that you just had similar ideas and were obviously very smart .

FWIW, the original project codename was "Quattro". Once we moved out of incubation into being a product we renamed ourselves "Q" and Q was the working codename for the product until we announced this week.