Vista follow-up coming in 2009

It hasn’t even been a month since Vista was released to the general public, but it seems Microsoft is now drawing up plans for its follow-up OS. According to PC World, the company plans to release Vista’s follow-up by the end of 2009. Microsoft said last year that the new OS’s codename will be “Vienna,” but Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division, said he could not disclose the current name.

Vista shipped about two-and-a-half years after XP SP 2, and Vista’s follow-up is expected to take about the same amount of time according to Fathi. “You can think roughly two, two-and-a-half years is a reasonable time frame that our partners can depend on and can work with,” he said. “That’s a good time frame for refresh.”

According to Fathi, the new features and options to be included in the new OS are still being worked out. “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.” Fathi added that updates and details will start trickling out within the next few months.

Via PC World

It hasn’t even been a month since Vista was released to the general public, but it seems Microsoft is now drawing up plans for its follow-up OS. According to PC World, the company plans to release Vista’s follow-up by the end of 2009. Microsoft said last year that the new OS’s codename will be “Vienna,” but Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division, said he could not disclose the current name.

Vista shipped about two-and-a-half years after XP SP 2, and Vista’s follow-up is expected to take about the same amount of time according to Fathi. “You can think roughly two, two-and-a-half years is a reasonable time frame that our partners can depend on and can work with,” he said. “That’s a good time frame for refresh.”

According to Fathi, the new features and options to be included in the new OS are still being worked out. “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.” Fathi added that updates and details will start trickling out within the next few months.

Via PC World