Linked by Andrew Youll on Sun 24th Jul 2005 21:02 UTC, submitted by Brad Wardell
Windows Vista beta 1 is due out by August 3. So what can we expect to see? What are Microsoft's goals?
Wincustomise's Frogboy shares his views.
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A great deal of work in Windows Vista appears to be setting the stage for the future. Long ago, there was a second Microsoft OS code-named "Blackcomb" which was to be the follow-on to Longhorn. In my opinion, Longhorn is setting the stage for what comes next.
I think that holds true. That would explain all the backporting of major components (Avalon and WinFX, Indigo). Microsoft clearly has a vision with these things and .NET around them, but it will take much more to "port" people over then just one release. Not trying to say Vista won't be important, but there are a lot of people who still want their apps on Win2k, XP and those people will still use a lot of Win32 in Vista (you can run a Win 3.1 app on WinXP for example).
And then there's the integration of RSS into the OS. Microsoft seems to believe that RSS is going to be a dominant way of making use of data in all kinds of interesting applications. We think the same thing. For example, when IE 7 starts coming close to release, we plan to make WinCustomize's skin galleries support RSS.
Just a not here - Microsoft will support both RSS and Atom in Vista as can be read here (http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/), but as the blog said, it won't show up in Beta 1. I also believe with the release of Vista there will come to an explosion of RSS. If you read their blogs you know the team has been working hard on this.
Overall I don't think there will be a good reaction to Beta 1 as most of the good stuff won't even show up until Beta 2 (or RC1?), but I hope there will at least be some stuff to toy around