Vista Followup Already in the Works

DesertBlade passed us an InfoWorld article, which has the news that Microsoft is already hard at work on the next version of Windows ... and we may see it as early as 2009. Possibly codenamed Vienna, the next Windows iteration will be coming a brief two and a half years after Vista's launch. This is the same timeframe Microsoft claims it would have utilized for Vista, had they not put Longhorn 'on the back burner' to deal with security issues in XP. Corporate Vice President of Development Ben Fathi is already discussing features for the next OS: "We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its 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 ... But over the next few months I think you're going to start hearing more and more."

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[Pascal Sartoretti]

Maybe its 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 ...

Of course. They need OS X 10.5's features to be announced first.

FLAMEBAIT! Come on mods... do something useful

[popo]

Christ people, if the parent statement had been inverted to be the slightest diss
on Apple there would have been an uproar.

Can we get over the "Microsoft just steals ideas" sentiment and realize that Windows is
a damn good OS. Maybe its not your favorite but believe it or not (and I know, on Slashdot
this is probably hard to believe) it actually is the *majority* of people's favorite OS,
and that's not because they haven't been "exposed" to OSX. Its because of a whole bunch
of upstream issues like work flow, hardware options, ease of software development, etc.

Now the real irony is -- I'll probably get modded down as flamebait.

Sigh. Fanboys should never be given mod points.