Microsoft: Vista Sequel In 2009
Published by Ian Klein February 11th, 2007 in Microsoft Vista.
Vista, we hardly knew ye. The latest operating system was released over five years after Windows XP, but the followup to Vista is now expected by the end of 2009.
“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,” said Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division. “That’s a good time frame for refresh.”
Vista was originally supposed to be released much earlier, but major worm outbreaks forcedthe company to put it on hold whilst Microsoft worked on XP Service Pack 2.
What’s in store for the followup is being kept under wraps for now.
“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 admitted. “But over the next few months I think you’re going to start hearing more and more.”
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Main reason they (Microsoft) can’t say what the improvements aer is that Apple MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) hasn’t been released yet - so M$ are not sure what to copy yet.
EVERYTHING released in Vista has been in the Mac OS for over two years and some for over five years. And ZERO viruses, infections, spyware, trojans, adware (V.I.S.T.A.)…
Yup YankInOz - I have to say you’re probably right on the money!
Allow the opposition to bear the burden of R&D, then implement it in your own way