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The Next Windows After Vista Will Demand Radical Rethinking From Microsoft | |
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| Time: 07:11 EST/12:11 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Two months before Microsoft is supposed to finish Windows Vista, the first new version of its desktop operating system in half a decade, the company is under intense pressure to change not only the way it develops Windows in the future, but everything about it. The last big Windows shake-up was 10 years ago, when Microsoft integrated its Web browser and Internet Protocol stack to fend off Netscape. Now Microsoft is at a crossroads again, and whatever comes after Vista could be a radical break from the past. While it's putting the finishing touches on Vista--a near-final test version could arrive this week--Microsoft is at work on the next major version of its most important product, a system code-named Vienna that's supposed to introduce a whole- sale reworking of the Windows desktop. Before that, a tune-up of Vista, dubbed Fiji, is in the works. | ||
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| #1 By 17996 (131.107.0.105) at 9/5/2006 2:04:25 PM |
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"...a system code-named Vienna that's supposed to introduce a whole- sale reworking of the Windows desktop..."
Whole-sale reworking? Where are they getting this from? Would it hurt for them to cite *one* source? And what does whole-sale reworking mean anyways? No start menu or taskbar? No explorer windows? No windows at all? |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 9/5/2006 3:14:49 PM |
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It will never happen. MS will not give up their monopoly, and that requires dragging everyone along with them from OS to OS. So either they'll make Vista+1 backward compatible with all the horrid warts & all, or create some kind of Broken Windows layer that sits on top of Vista+1 to maintain compatibility. MS could probably do good things with a clean slate, but if they come out with something that doesn't run everyone's apps and doesn't realize the investment people have made in the Windows ecosystem then it's game over for them. This is probably some guy late to the Singularity project.
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| #3 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 9/5/2006 4:15:27 PM |
| Latch, for once I agree with you. Dropping backward compatability would certainly result in a faster, trimmer OS, but that's what we have Apple for. |
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