Monday, November 13, 2006

Windows Vienna

Today, Microsoft announces it will start selling Windows Vista and Office 2007 through CompUSA stores starting Nov. 30, two month before general release date in January 2007. As we get closer to Vista's releasing date, Vista will become commonplace and old news; So now, I'll take a look at the Windows Vienna, the Windows OS following Vista.

In Feburary 2000, Microsoft announced Windows Vienna then codenamed Blackcomb as the version of Windows following Windows XP codenamed Whistler. Of course, it suffered major delay and Microsoft introduced Windows Vista codenamed Longhorn as the OS between XP and Vienna. Its very interesting that Microsoft codenamed all their operating system after Whistler-Blackcomb resort in British Columbia.

Some of the features of Vienna include the entire replacement of Windows explorer shell as well as well as a new Start Menu taskbar. Vienna may also include a 'Sandbox' approach probably similar to running a virtual machine inside the operating system to improve security. Finally there will be different ways of input methods such as type auto-complete or voice command. These and other features are of course all tentative, noone, probably not even Microsoft, will know until Vienna comes out in...who knows...ten years?

For more information visit the Windows Vienna Wikipedia Page

Labels: tech, windows

posted by Stavanger at 4:51 PM

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