What's After Windows Vista ? ?

2006 - Vista
2007 - Windows Server 2007
2008 - ?
2009 - Windows Server 2007 R2
2010 - ?
2011 - Vienna / original estimate for Blackcomb

A client and server of Blackcomb was estimated for 2011. That would make the difference between Vista and Vienna to be the same as between XP and Vista. Something Microsoft must acknowledge upset quite a bit of their consumer base (although probably not as much the business consumers). Another reason they might not like this is XP SP2. Its a great service pack, but it has not been deployed nearly as much as anyone would like. I know some major, major companies who haven't deployed it because of a lack of resources to either update internal software to work under SP2. A consumer with an XP RTM disk suffers even worse. It would be far easier to let customers know about "a new version of Windows" than it would be to say "install a Service Pack". Further to that, remember, SP2 was FREE. In terms of profit line, that's not so brill.

Windows Vienna - the codename for the operating system that comes after Microsoft’s Windows Vista. Windows Vienna used to be codename Blackcomb. Microsoft is still remaining fairly secretive about Vienna and I don’t blame them. Vienna probably won’t come out until 2010.
While Windows Vista is intended to be a technologies-based release, with some UI changes (in the form of the Aero set of technologies and guidelines), Vienna is targeted directly at revolutionizing the way we interact with our home and office PCs.

I think the problem is that Microsoft couldn’t do all they said they would do with Vista so the scratched it started over and then looked to Blackcomb to be the OS that shot them ahead of the game. Sounds roughly like a managenent problem to me, so the way I look at it is keep XP updated with all the Vista stuff you want gadgets(widgets), transparancy, themes, etcetra and wait till they get there act togther with Vienna. Truthfully, there isn’t much vista offers that is going to get me to buy it at a $399 dollar rumored price tag. Transparent windows suck, the new media center is shabby compaired to WMC 2005, IE7 still is catching up to Firefox and Opera, the best thing I think it offers is WMedia Player 11 which I already have the beta of on XP. Or another thought if you can bear it is switch to Mac, looks to me Vista is a realease to try and keep people satiatied with new Windows things so they can at least stay at par with Apple.

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