Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 31st Dec 2006 12:08 UTC
"Face it, Windows Vista is just so played these days. With that preliminary biz release under its belt, we're ready for bigger and better things, and luckily a certain "jameskyton" drive-by-blogger has the low-down for us on Vista's successors, Fiji and Vienna". Read more at Engadget.
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RE: Windows running out of improvemtns?
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RE[2]: Windows running out of improvemtns?
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<personal opinion>
With major Windows releases every 2 years (apparently!) Microsoft have maintained a steady income stream over the last 15ish years. Without new, more demanding, OS-es, the Hardware vendors face reduced sales and thus less Microsoft OS sales in the future.
Now, it seems, that they've got Windows about as good as it gets. The WIMP setup is pretty much finalised, the application-set fulfills the consumers needs, and you can only sell the 'improved security' argument so many times before people get suspicious.
So where next? any slowdown in the Windows release-cycle will give the Linux/Apple markets a chance to gain a foothold so they've got to find something to sell to the execs, therefore all the talk of 'complete overhaul's.
I'm wary of all the 'rebuilt-from-the-ground-up' talk, because if MS develop a new, secure, performant, easy to use OS then there will be nowhere new for them to go after that. Much more likely is that any new OSs will take another 10/15 years to get correct and get to the level of Windows XP.
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