[mssssee2]

Windows "Vienna" (formerly known as Blackcomb) is a codename for a future version of Microsoft Windows, originally announced in February 2000, but has since been subject to major delays and rescheduling. Microsoft has announced it will be released in 2009, and according to "Smart Computing In Plain English", a technology magazine, work on it began right after Windows Vista was released. As of February 2007, the name of the perating system used internally is undisclosed and is not used publicly by Microsoft, though "Windows 7" has been noted in job postings as a working name for the project.
Microsoft has refrained from discussing the details about "Vienna" publicly as they focus on the release and marketing of Windows Vista, though some early details of various core operating system features have emerged at developer conferences such as Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in 2006.
Microsoft has stated that "Vienna" will be available in both 32-bit and 64-bit for the client version, in order to ease the industry's transition from 32-bit to 64-bit computing. Vienna Server is expected to support only 64-bit server systems. There will be continued backward compatibility with 32-bit applications, but 16-bit Windows and MS-DOS applications will not be supported, as has been the case since the 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. However, Paul Thurrott claims in his Supersite for Windows, that according to Microsoft's x64 migration schedule, Windows Vienna will almost certainly only ship in 64-bit editions.
At first, internal sources pitched Blackcomb as being not just a major revision of Windows, but a complete departure from the way users today typically think about interacting with a computer. For instance, the "Start" philosophy, introduced in Windows 95, may be replaced by the "new interface" which was said in 1999 to be scheduled for "Vienna" (before being moved to Vista and then back again to "Vienna"). While Windows Vista was intended to be an evolutionary release, Vienna was targeted directly at revolutionizing the way users of the product interact with their PCs. However, the situation has now changed. Windows Vista, which was expected to be a minor release became a major release, when it was released five years after the release of Windows XP. Windows "Vienna" will become a minor release, and is currently planned to be released two years after Windows Vista.

In my opinion, I think that Microsoft should be a bit more well-organised, cause whatever it says the opposite happens, thus I don't think it's an objective source of tech information.

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Mike from Greece, 14

[auras]

Why release another version when your current release is unpopular and selling poorly?

[Mak213]

Originally Posted by auras

Why release another version when your current release is unpopular and selling poorly?

Huh? Vista is one of their best selling OS's yet. IT has sold out almost everywhere you go in the States. Yeah Japan hasnt sold that many but overall Vista licenses have topped the 2 million mark already.

[Pepsiboy700]

Has it really? I've only seen fully stocked shelves of windows vista at all the local computer stores. I will have to ask if they have sold alot but I can say for a fact that everyone I know in real life said after using vista for a week, they wished they had not bought it.

[Mak213]

Originally Posted by Pepsiboy700

Has it really? I've only seen fully stocked shelves of windows vista at all the local computer stores. I will have to ask if they have sold alot but I can say for a fact that everyone I know in real life said after using vista for a week, they wished they had not bought it.

I see fully stocked shelves as well. But talking to people that is because M$ has provided enough units to prevent sell outs. Unlike the 360/PS3/Wii shortages we seen at their release.

I cant find the article right now. I think it was at C|Net. I remember the argument we had over it. But the thing i pointed out was that the article stated Licenses sold was at 2 Million. Which includes online sales not jsut physical media. That is why the # is so high. We only think of sales in the physical media sense when that isnt the case anymore. I dont have a physical disc from M$. I have a burned copy since i got mine off their site. But i paid for my license.

[Trotter]

Plus 95%+ of new pre-builts come with Vista... which gives even more stat padding.

[vernong1992]

will this have a new UI too?

[EricB]

it won't be out in 2 years. vista was suppose to be out 2 years ago

[beedubaya]

Its 20 million copies that MS claims to have sold. What they dont tell you is 12 million of them were XP Home PCs sold over the holidays with Vista upgrade coupons. Factor those out and you only have 8 million copies sold within the first 2 months, most of which was with new PCs.

[steak1986]

YA beside the fact that vista blows, the reason it is and will sell so much is the pressure microsoft has put on computer makers to bundle it, i think at the end of this year prebundled comps wont be able to purchase computers with xp