14 DAY TRIAL // Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Seven) are already old news, the first barely 7 months old, the later still germinating In Redmond Utero. However Microsoft is not shifting its priorities to developing a new operating system codenamed Omnigo. The Redmond company has failed to either conform or comment on speculations revealing that the development of Omnigo is in full throttle, with the core team that built Windows Vista behind the new project. But despite that the developers behind Omnigo come from the Vista operating system, the new product will not follow the path of the Windows platform.
According to a report from ActiveWin, the Omnigo operating system is designed to be used with next generation devices featuring exclusive natural interfaces such as Microsoft Surface. Still, the report has to be taken with a grain of salt. It is highly unlikely that Microsoft will take the chance to diverge in any manner from its Windows line of products. It's simply too big of a gambit, as the Redmond company is currently pushing on the milestone of 1 billion install base for the Windows operating system by mid-2008. And the fact of the matter is that even Microsoft Surface is powered by none other than Windows Vista.
Additionally, the Redmond company is currently in high gear with its Windows efforts, and sparing developers to work on parallel projects is a move nothing short of a gamble. Microsoft plans to make the first full beta version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available by mid September. Additionally, Windows XP Service Pack 3 is also baking, with both refreshes planned for the first half of 2008, after February.
But on top of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3, Microsoft is also tied into the race to release Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing in early 2008 and in preparation for the official launch at the end of February. And, although it has barely started cooking, Windows 7, Vista's successor is also taking shape and planned for delivery in 2010.