MaxDamage
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fonteMicrosoft 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.
Algumas das possíveis características do Vienna (link codename Fiji):
-The current interface will be completely stripped, no more explorer shells,
and taskbars. No start menu. Probably no toolbars, or menus (which already
started with Vista).
-Speech Recognition will become a major input device (though it will not
replace the keyboard and mouse) and will be supported by most third party
applications
-Many projects from Microsoft’s R&D will come into play, especially from
their VIBE research center. A pie-menu is rumored to be used.
- A new version of NTFS wrapped in a more powerful WinFS. No more drives, or
files/folders location to worry about. File Management will be done through
applications, which will automatically index and sort the files they support.
- Even bundled applications will evolve a lot (compare WMP6 with WMP11).
- Search will part a huge part in Vienna (like it does in the control panel
of Vienna)
- Applications with non-managed code will run in a sandbox mode (like IE7
does in Vista), so that security exploits in a single application doesn’t affect
the entire OS.
Hmmm, parece-me muita coisa para estar pronta até 2009, a ver vamos..
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