Goodbye Vista, hello Vienna
p2pnet.net news:- Can it be true?
It can. Vista has barely been launched to an underwhelmed world and already, Bill and the Boyz are planning their next hoped-for O/S triumph, according to the IDG News Service.
Microsoft is now planning a, “follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009,” according to Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division, says the story.
Slated for 2009, eh? That would put it at around 1015, then.
Microsoft originally planned for its XP follow-up, “to include a number of radical changes to Windows, including a new file system and a reinvented user interface, but after the company’s products were hit by widespread worm outbreaks in 2003, Microsoft redirected almost its entire engineering effort to locking down Windows with the XP Service Pack 2 release,” says IDG.
“You can think roughly two, two-and-a-half years is a reasonable time frame that our partners can depend on and can work with,” he said. “That’s a good time frame for refresh.”
In 2006, Microsoft said the code name for the Vista follow-up is Vienna, “but Fathi said he could not disclose the current name. ‘We’ve been told not to use it publicly’,” states the story.
According to Fathi, the “coolest new feature in Vienna” is still being pondered, but, “We’re going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe it’s hypervisors, I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s a new user interface paradigm for consumers. It’s too early for me to talk about it,” he added. “But over the next few months I think you’re going to start hearing more and more.”
Also See:
IDG News Service – Microsoft: Vista Follow-up Likely in 2009, February 9, 2007
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