Wow, I haven’t yet had a huge desire to upgrade to Windows Vista and there’s already talk of the next OS to take its place: Windows Vienna. Vienna is the code-name for the new OS, with the actual name being kept secret at this point. Microsoft’s goal is to release it by the end of 2009.
What new features will it have, you ask? Well I’m asking the same question myself, along with everyone else (including Microsoft).
“We’re going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don’t know what it is,” he said. “Maybe it’s a new user interface paradigm for consumers.”
“It’s too early for me to talk about it,” he added. “But over the next few months I think you’re going to start hearing more and more.”
It will be interesting to see how things play out. With the advent of Vienna, we may possibly see the death of the keyboard and mouse and a shift to next-gen UIs, such as the Minority-Report post I did a few days ago.
For those who are ignorant of the term “hypervisor” (which, when I read, I pictured a golf-cap with some sort of built-in gyroscope for user input), it is a means of running multiple operating systems on the same computer. See Wikipedia.
[via PC World]
