Windows Vienna
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microchipper
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i heard my friend talk to me about a new OS from MS coming out called (Vienna)
is this true , like will it be the succesor of Vista ??? and will it be much bettre ?
essentially a service pack i reckon
Microsoft claims Vienna will be released in 2009 but you know how long it was between XP and Vista. Vienna is suppost to have a different file system, it will probably be what Vista was suppost to be to start with.
"The follow-up to Windows Vista should arrive in calendar year 2009
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has already proclaimed that there is "More where that came from" when it comes to operating systems. According to PC World, 2009 is when we can expect more "wow" from Microsoft. During that year, Microsoft is expected to release the follow-up to Windows Vista which is codenamed Vienna.
Microsoft doesn't want another repeat of the 5-year drought between the release of Windows XP and Windows Vista, so the company is accelerating its plans for its next generation operating system.
The time and effort that should have been exerted on Windows Vista were instead diverted to getting Windows XP SP2 out the door. "Then when we came back to it, we realized that there were incremental things that we wanted to do, and significant improvements that we wanted to make in Vista that we couldn't deliver in one release," said Ben Fathi, a corporate VP in Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division.
The lack of focus resulted in a number of features being dropped from the initial release of Windows Vista. These included WinFS, native HD DVD and FireWire-B support, enhanced speech recognition and PC-to-PC sync.
Some of these shortcomings will be addressed with the first service pack for Vista, codename Fiji. A fully realized version of WinFS, however, will likely not appear until Vienna.
Fathi declined to comment on what exactly to expect with Vienna, but simply left PC World with these musings: “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." According to Fathi, we’ll have to stay tuned within the next few months to see what exactly Microsoft has up its sleeves for Vienna." http://dailytech.com/Microsofts+Vienna+Due+in+2009/article6053.htm
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INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK
[ TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2006 01:36:21 AM
After Vista, it is the turn of Vienna. Microsoft's upcoming Windows operating system Blackcomb is now going to be called Vienna. It is not clear when Vienna may ship and what will be its features as Microsoft remains tightlipped on its stage of development.
Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble first confirmed the new code name in a posting to the company's Channel 9 developer site. "The 'Blackcomb' code name has been changed to 'Vienna,' but we do not have any other details to share on timing or focus," Microsoft said in a statement.
"This does not reflect a big change for us; we have used city code names in the past, which are derived from cities/locations in the world known for great 'vistas' -- the kinds of places we all want to see, experience and that capture the imagination. Vienna fits with this concept."
Interestingly, Vienna is also listed by some Microsoft-watching websites as the codename of Office Live Communication Server 2005.
Software developers usually have codenames for software projects while the marketing department comes up with a more appropriate name at a later stage.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1383641.cms
The first article was seen some time back while the second was hiding somewhere. A third article can be looked over at http://news.com.com/Microsoft+looks+beyond+Vista,+sees+Vienna/2100-1016_3-6029241.html
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has already proclaimed that there is "More where that came from" when it comes to operating systems. According to PC World, 2009 is when we can expect more "wow" from Microsoft. During that year, Microsoft is expected to release the follow-up to Windows Vista which is codenamed Vienna.
Microsoft doesn't want another repeat of the 5-year drought between the release of Windows XP and Windows Vista, so the company is accelerating its plans for its next generation operating system.
The time and effort that should have been exerted on Windows Vista were instead diverted to getting Windows XP SP2 out the door. "Then when we came back to it, we realized that there were incremental things that we wanted to do, and significant improvements that we wanted to make in Vista that we couldn't deliver in one release," said Ben Fathi, a corporate VP in Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division.
The lack of focus resulted in a number of features being dropped from the initial release of Windows Vista. These included WinFS, native HD DVD and FireWire-B support, enhanced speech recognition and PC-to-PC sync.
Some of these shortcomings will be addressed with the first service pack for Vista, codename Fiji. A fully realized version of WinFS, however, will likely not appear until Vienna.
Fathi declined to comment on what exactly to expect with Vienna, but simply left PC World with these musings: “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." According to Fathi, we’ll have to stay tuned within the next few months to see what exactly Microsoft has up its sleeves for Vienna." http://dailytech.com/Microsofts+Vienna+Due+in+2009/article6053.htm
forward to Vienna
INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK
Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble first confirmed the new code name in a posting to the company's Channel 9 developer site. "The 'Blackcomb' code name has been changed to 'Vienna,' but we do not have any other details to share on timing or focus," Microsoft said in a statement.
"This does not reflect a big change for us; we have used city code names in the past, which are derived from cities/locations in the world known for great 'vistas' -- the kinds of places we all want to see, experience and that capture the imagination. Vienna fits with this concept."
Interestingly, Vienna is also listed by some Microsoft-watching websites as the codename of Office Live Communication Server 2005.
Software developers usually have codenames for software projects while the marketing department comes up with a more appropriate name at a later stage.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1383641.cms
The first article was seen some time back while the second was hiding somewhere. A third article can be looked over at http://news.com.com/Microsoft+looks+beyond+Vista,+sees+Vienna/2100-1016_3-6029241.html
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Geoff
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Vienna is not a service pack, it's the next OS. It's not going to be out for a while though, it's not scheduled to come out until 2009-2010, and knowing Microsoft add another 2-4 years on top of that.
INTELCRAZY
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and many more problems
This isn't Microsoft's flaw, the peripherial/hardware companies needed to make drivers for their equipment that worked with Vista.
OvenMaster
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Since Vienna is coming out in 2009, that means Vista will be on the market for just two years. So it's pretty accurate to consider Vista as Microsoft's NT version of Me
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Geoff
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But I believe Vista was suppose to come out around 2004, so...Since Vienna is coming out in 2009, that means Vista will be on the market for just two years. So it's pretty accurate to consider Vista as Microsoft's NT version of Me
Tom
tlarkin
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Yup, now isn't everyone glad they went out and bought a busted obsolete technology from MS....
Vienna is going to be what Vista was suppose to be. It will have EFI support most likely (which means you will want to build a whole new system) since all the apple computers have it in them now. Also, almost every major corporation is behind EFI technology.
Vienna is slated to be released in 2009, 2 years after vista. This reminds me of that fluke of an OS MS released in 1999 called windowsME, and then right after ME was out they released 2000 and everyone just kind of forgot about windowsME. So, is vista another windows ME? I mean they had HUGE management problems at MS getting all their developers to work together properly to put vista together. It took them 6 years!!!!! You look at any other OS - OS X, Linux, Unix and the various flavors, none of them take 6 years to put out a piece of crap like MS did.
I blame Steve Balmer!
Geoff
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I guess we wont really know if Windows Vista is like ME until Vienna comes out.
TBH I was really looking forward to the new filesystem, but since they dropped that as well as many other things, it does seem like just a dressed up, resource hogging version of XP.
Luckily I get it free via MSDN, so I dont really care, but I probably wouldnt pay for it.
TBH I was really looking forward to the new filesystem, but since they dropped that as well as many other things, it does seem like just a dressed up, resource hogging version of XP.
Luckily I get it free via MSDN, so I dont really care, but I probably wouldnt pay for it.
Irishwhistle
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I have no idea how true this is, but I heard that Vienna is going to have a whole different shell (no explorer). 
It even said that there might not be a start menu.
~Jordan
It even said that there might not be a start menu.~Jordan
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Geoff
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I have o idea how true this is, but I heard that Vienna is going to have a whole different shell (no explorer).
~Jordan
I hope thats not the case. Thats the main reason why I prefer Windows over Mac's, because of the start menu, haha
brinky2006
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From what I have been told, Vienna is going to us a 'new interface', rather than the old start menu philosophy of Windows 95. Microsoft are going to completely revise Windows, and the way that people interact with their computer.
It has also been said that Microsoft are going to use their new Live Services, to get to know what people are intrested in, and transfer their files, programs, fonts, favorites, histories etc when they move from one pc to another, eg when using a pc in a Internet Cafe.
It has also been said that Microsoft are going to use their new Live Services, to get to know what people are intrested in, and transfer their files, programs, fonts, favorites, histories etc when they move from one pc to another, eg when using a pc in a Internet Cafe.