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With Windows Vista being a major resource waster (dubbed Windows ME II by theinquirer) ... and SP1 not helping at all ... Microsoft seems to be anxious to get the next version out as soon as possible. If you look down upon the pathway to Vista, you'll come to know that the true next gen windows was supposed to be Blackcomb with Longhorn being a gap-filler.
However, it took Microsoft five long years to finally deliver it due to shift of the codebase from winxp to win2k3 shifting the timeframe. Balckcomb is now expected for 2011-12. That wouldn't help Microsoft, especially when Linux & OSX are eating away its share. So, here comes Windows Codename 7 (previously codenamed Vienna ... and now 7 ... as Windows Vista is ver 6). It is expected that Microsoft has learnt its lesson and this version of windows is being developed upon the MinWin kernel (supposed to cut the bloated code) with emphasis upon touch and digital entertainment (the rest is the same as any win95 ad ... leaner, faster, smarter, blah blah blah).
Its supposed to have reached M1 (milestone 1 stage of development) and is to be released in 2009 if comments by Bill Gates (who is due to retire this year) are to be believed.
Check out Paul Thurrott's supersite for more details! Later!
With Windows Vista being a major resource waster (dubbed Windows ME II by theinquirer) ... and SP1 not helping at all ... Microsoft seems to be anxious to get the next version out as soon as possible. If you look down upon the pathway to Vista, you'll come to know that the true next gen windows was supposed to be Blackcomb with Longhorn being a gap-filler.
However, it took Microsoft five long years to finally deliver it due to shift of the codebase from winxp to win2k3 shifting the timeframe. Balckcomb is now expected for 2011-12. That wouldn't help Microsoft, especially when Linux & OSX are eating away its share. So, here comes Windows Codename 7 (previously codenamed Vienna ... and now 7 ... as Windows Vista is ver 6). It is expected that Microsoft has learnt its lesson and this version of windows is being developed upon the MinWin kernel (supposed to cut the bloated code) with emphasis upon touch and digital entertainment (the rest is the same as any win95 ad ... leaner, faster, smarter, blah blah blah).
Its supposed to have reached M1 (milestone 1 stage of development) and is to be released in 2009 if comments by Bill Gates (who is due to retire this year) are to be believed.
Check out Paul Thurrott's supersite for more details! Later!
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