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Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009

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Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009

 

With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.

 

 

That would be a much faster turn-around than Vista, which shipped more than five years after Windows XP, but Vista was exceptional, said Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

 

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.

 

"We put Longhorn on the back burner for awhile," Fathi said. "Then when we came back to it, we realized that there were incremental things that we wanted to do, and significant improvements that we wanted to make in Vista that we couldn't deliver in one release."

 

Vista shipped about two-and-a-half years after XP SP 2, and Vista's follow-up is expected to take about the same amount of time, according to Fathi. "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 timeframe for refresh."

 

That time line would put Microsoft's next client operating system out by the end of 2009.

 

Last year, Microsoft said that the code name for this Vista follow-up is Vienna, but Fathi said he could not disclose the current name. "We've been told not to use it publicly," he said.

 

So what will be the coolest new feature in Vienna?

 

According to Fathi, that's still being worked out. "We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is," he said. "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."

 

 

Read it here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070209...infoworld/85937

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"...We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is," he said. "Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers."..."

 

Anybody care to put that into English? :)

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"...We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is," he said. "Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers."..."

 

Anybody care to put that into English? :)

We're gonna make it so you can't surf the web without upgrading. :huh:

 

Lynn

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Actually, I think he got carried away with verbiage. I do know what a paradigm is - just how that fits in with his 'user interface' is beyond me, unless the user is the guinea pig being observed (which wouldn't surprise me knowing a certain software company) :)

 

But just WHAT is a 'hypervisor'? Is it a super-superviser or a visor you put on a hyper-active user? :huh:

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Or another layer of code for a more "wonderfulized" browsing and other computer work ...?

 

Like how much more wonderful Vista is because the different windows are see-thru. Really, as long as I can use which window I want when I have several up (and I normally do online - one to read, one to load), it doesn't impress me at all - just uses more processing power.

 

Lynn

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"...We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is," he said. "Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers."..."

 

Anybody care to put that into English? :)

Two thoughts:

 

1) It'll be another pretty face on an operating system designed to awe the user with the difficulty it provides in doing what you want to do.

 

2) He hasn't a clue about what they're going to do, but it it'll be pretty.

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"Goodnight Vienna".

 

Do you remember the night I held you so tight,

As we danced to the Wiener Schnitzel Waltz?

The music was gay, and the setting was Viennese,

Your hair wore some roses (or perhaps they were peonies),

I was blind to your obvious faults,

As we danced 'cross the scene

To the strains of the Wiener Schnitzel Waltz.

 

Tom Lehrer :)

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"It fades to the distance,

The image is gone,

Only you and I,

It means nothing to me,

This means nothing to me,

Oh Vienna".

Ultravox- (Feb 1981)

But you know you can't always see when you're right

You got your passion you got your pride

But don't you know only fools are satisfied?

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true

When will you realize

Vienna waits for you

 

Billy Joel

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