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Skriven 2007-02-14 18:55:42 av Richard Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Microsoft To Launch 'Vienna' In 2009
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From: Richard Gauszka <gauszka@nospam-hotmail.com>

Vienna may be out quicker than service pack 3 for XP <g>

mike wrote:
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> http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197005145
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> The retail version of Windows Vista is less than a month old, but
> already Microsoft is talking up plans for Vienna -- its next big
> operating system.
>
> Microsoft customers and business partners should expect to have Vienna
> in their hands in two to two-and-a-half years, said Ben Fathi, VP of
> development in Microsoft's operating system group, according to a story
> published Friday by the IDG News Service. But what will be included is
> still very much an open question.
>
> To date, Microsoft has said little about Vienna, which is the code name
> for its next operating system, or what benefits it might offer to
> consumers and business users. But there are some clues. At a Vista
> launch event last month , Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer provided a glimpse
> into the types functions where Microsoft would like to see more built-in
> support at the operating system level.
>
> Ballmer said the continued convergence of communications and information
> technologies and consumer demand for ever more sophisticated forms of
> digital entertainment will require operating systems with capabilities
> well beyond those offered by Vista. "All these things will evolve, and
> the operating system will need to evolve with them," said Ballmer.
>
> Indeed, Roger Kay, analyst and founder of Endpoint Technologies, says
> that despite Microsoft's "Wow Starts Now" marketing push for Vista, the
> operating system lacks the wow factor required to drive a significant
> increase in sales of new business or consumer PCs. "It's still the same
> basic graphical user interface" that hasn't changed significantly since
> Microsoft introduced Windows, Kay said.
>
> For that reason, Microsoft may need to add features to Vienna or another
> future operating system that go beyond more efficient pointing and
> clicking -- features such as standard support for touch-screen and
> voice-activated computing, said Kay.
>
> It's also likely that Vienna will be designed to act in less of a
> client-centric manner than its predecessors and more like a conduit
> between the desktop and a host of services that Microsoft plans to
> deliver over the Web under its Windows Live initiatives. Those services
> include search, e-mail, and social networking tools.
>
> It's a direction that Microsoft needs to take to fend off competition
> from Google and other Web 2.0 players that are offering so-called Webtop
> applications. "Moving forward we must frame all our products and
> services from an online-connected, end-user perspective," Microsoft
> chief software architect Ray Ozzie said at a conference last June. In
> other words, Vienna, not Vista, may represent Microsoft's real break
> from the Windows sausage factory.
> ===
>
> So a new version of Windows in the latter half of 2009.
>
> I can't wait.
>
>  /m

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