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Microsoft Ponders Windows Successor
InfoWorldMike writes "Before Vista is even out of the gates, a Microsoft exec was talking Wednesday about Windows' replacement at a VC conference. Speaking at The Venture Forum conference, Microsoft's Bryan Barnett, a program manager for external research programs in the Microsoft Research group, said multicore architectures are of particular interest when weighing what to put in future operating systems at the company. "Taking full advantage of the processing power that those multicore architectures potentially make available requires operating systems and development tools that don't exist largely today," Barnett said. Well, with Vista in the pipeline as long as it has been, you must admit it is not surprising Microsoft is taking the long-term view. And it won't be built overnight: There is no timetable for a Windows successor right now. But early work on this effort has not yet been organized, with five or six small projects afoot in various places throughout the company, Barnett said."
Shouldn't this article instead be from the "twenty-years-too-late" department?
Nice! I bet it's going to ship with Duke Nukem Forever Part Deux
ZuluPad, the wiki notepad on crack
I think Microsoft already knows what to do as a successor to Windows...
Just wait for Google to show us what a Google OS would look like... then do that.
just get rid of drive letters and use forwardslashes instead of backslashes and get rid of the \r\n linefeed crap and voila you have windows +1
Then maybe a clever student, frustrated because the license won't allow him or her to modify it, will re-impliment a new OS out of Singularity. If they allow a lot of other people to contribute, it could get big really fast...
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Windows "Eventually"
Instead of basing the successor on OS X, maybe MS will come out with Plan X OS
Does anyone else see a future code merge revealing that the protoypes work off horribly incompatible file systems?
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. -Anais Nin
Mr. Dvorak, please, it's late. Go back to your column and leave these poor /.ers in peace.
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1. Blinds.
2. Gates.
3. Sunscreens.
4. Smokescreens.
5. Chairs.... or rather, Chairs! Chairs! Chairs!!!
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
In all fairness, I am not saying that Microsoft can't do it themselves, I'd just like to see a return to the good 'ol days when Microsoft made good, solid applications and were not trying to be all things to all people.
Ya, I still reminisce about wire-frame FlightSim as well. Ya, playing that game on the AppleII, MicroSoft was the bomb.
I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.
Personally, I think it would really r0x0r if the new OS shipped with an object-relational file system that had metadata, and a SQL-esque query syntax, and automated fall-over network distribution and...
Before Vista is even out of the gates, a Microsoft exec was talking Wednesday about Windows' replacement at a VC conference.
.. this dual core thing has got us stumped... we're figuring out how to slow things down with dual core.
Gates looked at Vista, and left, holding his nose! Before we let this beast loose on gullible folks, we want to pacify them, saying we're working on a better alternative...
Speaking at The Venture Forum conference, Microsoft's Bryan Barnett, a program manager for external research programs in the Microsoft Research group, said multicore architectures are of particular interest when weighing what to put in future operating systems at the company. "Taking full advantage of the processing power that those multicore architectures potentially make available requires operating systems and development tools that don't exist largely today,"
Our policy has always been "Whatever Intel giveth (in speed), Microsoft taketh away!"
Barnett said. Well, with Vista in the pipeline as long as it has been, you must admit it is not surprising Microsoft is taking the long-term view.
Well... we've taken a long while to build some junk, we've thrown out all useful stuff we promised.. don't worry, we'll keep working harder and longer in similar fashion.
And it won't be built overnight: There is no timetable for a Windows successor right now.
WE WON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF ANNOUNCING TIME TABLES AGAIN... NEVER, EVER!!! The successor to Windows could come in the next centruy... we won't be there, we won't care, but there's nothing wrong living in hope... We'll announce this non-event, non-timetabled non-initiative in Slashdot though!
But early work on this effort has not yet been organized
We are proud to declare that we have NOT YET started this NON-INITIATIVE
With five or six small projects afoot in various places throughout the company, Barnett said.
Some five or six groups of disgruntled employees have given up on Vista.... and now, they're talking about joining Google to Build The Successor To Windows...
Actually, we should've posted this in Ask Slashdot... but we aren't part of the OSDL, and we have our pride.. so we announce it as News for Nerds... Thanks for your suggestions!
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Taking full advantage of the processing power that those multicore architectures potentially make available requires operating systems and development tools that don't exist largely today
Marketing is one thing, lying is another. Oh, wait, this is MS.
I so hate them when they speak about SW and OSes like there would exist nothing nowhere besides Windows. So, no wonder I don't ever like what they say.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Well, then Ozzie should stay out of Texas. The use of such technological 'devices' is illegal there even for consenting, married adults:
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2005/03/03/O
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
Please don't anthropomorphize Microsoft. It really hates when people do that.
afaiac, Windows died out years ago. Linux is the king of the hill now.
Long live Linux!
First they discovered the PC, then they found the internet, now low and behold they have found multicore procesors! What's next, an operating system that doesn't need to be re-booted? Nah, no one has discovered one of those yet, have they?
Sheeze, why does everything that everyone else has been doing for years suddenly become a revelation when M$ discover it?
3. .Net platform is now driven into the heart of the OS. If you have written code in a "managed" environment, you already know why this is better.
Because it's the only way to insure that the vampire stays dead?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
But where did BSD come from ? Was it not just basically a rewrite of the old UNIX V6 ? Itself an evolution of the original UNIX ?
And was Unix not inspired by MULTICS ?
Yet there is no trace of MULTICS in Mac OS X...
Coincidence ? I think not...
It's a conspiracy I tell you !
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Made from the freshest electrons.
Hasn't anyone ever seen an Adam Sandler movie ?!
It's going to be the biggest slack-assed OS out there that eventually gets a fire lit under its' ass & saves the OS day.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
AFAIK, gold is twice as heavy as lead, and albatrosses are way more aerodynamically efficient than geese. So the transfer to a lead albatros is to be considered an upgrade. You still need a pretty dense atmosphere for it to be able to fly...
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
Surely you mean Windows\2 ? ;)
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Ever wonder where the bite mark came from? http://th.wikipedia.org/upload/thumb/a/ab/Apple-lo go.png/180px-Apple-logo.png
Microsoft should buy OS/2 from IBM.
not half of my money. AARR, Matey!