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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For the Sake of the world...

[JimXugle]

Microsoft, Scrap Win32 and the NT Kernel. Build a new OS from the ground up. Make it a variant of Unix. Get it certified by The Open Group. Write the Kernel in C so it's stable. Make the OS modular so that the entire system won't go down when something crashes. Use a standardized filesystem like ext3. Run a compatibility layer as a non-privileged user for legacy support. Add a Sudoku game.