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Vista Followup Already in the Works

Posted by Zonk on from the let-the-corpse-of-xp-cool-first dept.

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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  1. Fundamentals. by JonathanR · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology
    The power switch?
    1. Re:Fundamentals. by ElephanTS · · Score: 5, Funny

      FFS. How many times has this been said ?

      WinFS is not a filesystem, it's a database.

      What about FFS? Maybe it's the new file system MS are working on?

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    2. Re:Fundamentals. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      WinFS is not a filesystem, it's a database.
      Right. It's WinDB that's the new filesystem.
    3. Re:Fundamentals. by NMerriam · · Score: 4, Funny

      WinFS is not a filesystem, it's a database.


      A file system IS a database. Of course the issue is moot since WinFS will be released on the 43rd day of Lovermber in the year Two thousand and flibbity quard.
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  2. Alternative names for it? by Funkcikle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am not too impressed by the name of "Vienna", especially since I happen to like the place.

    I think something along the lines of Windows Hindenburg would be more appropriate. Or does anyone have a better name?

    1. Re:Alternative names for it? by maharg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Windows Titanic, or WinTit for short

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      @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
    2. Re:Alternative names for it? by lanswitch · · Score: 4, Funny

      Windows Waterloo.

    3. Re:Alternative names for it? by Joebert · · Score: 4, Funny

      It should be changed from "Windows" to "Doors".

      Such a change could stop the croocks from trying to break in all the time, everyone knows crooks are too parahnoid to go in through the door.

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    4. Re:Alternative names for it? by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Funny

      It should be changed from "Windows" to "Doors".

      Why not simply "Gates"?

    5. Re:Alternative names for it? by Joebert · · Score: 4, Funny

      Because we'd miss out on all the profits from "Doors" by skipping to "Gates".

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      Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
  3. allow me to translate... by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Funny
    "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 "

    "we got nothing, someone think something up quick so we can steal it."

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  4. A prophecy from the 1980's courtesy Ultravox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    We walked in the cold air.
    Freezing breath on a window pane,
    Lying and waiting.
    The man in the dark in a picture frame,
    So mystic and soulful.
    A voice reaching out in a piercing cry,
    It stays with you until

    The feeling has gone only you and I.
    It means nothing to me.
    This means nothing to me.
    Oh Vienna

  5. Re:Purge time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Could someone start a petition to purge "enabling" from the english language? Please?


    Disabling enabling? No way.