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Vista SP1, XP SP3, Windows 7 - Codename Translucency

Windows Omerta is translucent... Codename translucent that is... Just because codenames are not Sinofsky's thing. He would rather deal with product numbers. And in fact Sinofsky has shifted Microsoft away from the tradition of associating products in development with codenames to implementing product numbers wit...

7 August 2007
12:17 GMT

New Compression Engine for Windows Explorer in Windows 7 (Seven)?

The new Windows Explorer in Windows Vista is not all that it was cranked up to be. Well, at least not when it comes down to the built in compression mechanism. This is nothing new in Vista. In fact, the default compression capabilities of Windows XP have survived in Microsoft's latest operating system from XP. H...

7 August 2007
06:22 GMT

The Platform That Will Kill Windows Vista

Forget about Windows Vista! In fact, Microsoft had better not even make Windows Seven, Vista's 32-bit and 64-bit successor planned for 2010. Microsoft's latest operating system will not survive to a new platform being built out of Rich Interactive Applications. And no, this is not about Linux or Mac OS X. T...

6 August 2007
11:48 GMT

Windows XP SP3 and Windows Seven... Made in India

Asphyxiated under Sinofsky's Windows Omerta, the Redmond company is not breathing a single word about the future of Windows XP and Windows Vista, and the whole of the Windows platform for that matter. But Redmond is no longer the sole epicenter of the Windows operating system. Apparently, Microsoft has exported ...

6 August 2007
09:26 GMT

3 Years Before Windows Seven, Microsoft Is Already Working on Security

Microsoft has been beating the drum of Windows Vista as the most secure Windows platform to date for the past six months already. But this tune will not be muted after Vista. In fact, it is very possible that with Vista's successor, Windows Seven, Microsoft is going to use the same leitmotif of evolved security ...

3 August 2007
08:37 GMT

Why Won't Microsoft Kill 32-bit Windows after Vista?

There are only scarce details available about Windows Seven. Microsoft recently talked about the successor of Windows Vista during a sales meeting, in an effort to provide at least some information to its Software Assurance customers tied to the delivery date of the next version of the Windows platform. And the Redmo...

2 August 2007
08:16 GMT

Microsoft Doesn't Have the Slightest Clue as to What Comes After Windows Vista

Microsoft is not talking Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft is not talking Windows XP SP3. Microsoft is not... well you get the idea. Future product releases such as Windows Seven, Windows Fiji and even Internet Explorer 8 are taboo for the Redmond company with Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Li...

31 July 2007
13:18 GMT

What If You Skipped Vista Altogether and Went Directly to Windows Seven?

Windows Seven, the successor of Windows Vista is planned for 2010. If you haven't already upgraded to Microsoft's latest operating system, what are the chances to skip Windows Vista altogether, ride Windows XP for all it has to offer, and deploy directly Windows Seven? You will only have to exercise your pa...

31 July 2007
12:45 GMT

10 Reasons Why You Won't Ever Want to Go Back to XP from Vista

Released for businesses in November 2006, and for the general public in January 2007, Windows Vista is but a couple of days away from passing the first six months of availability milestone. The operating system's first half a year has been everything but an easy ride, with Microsoft struggling to convince on all...

28 July 2007
11:51 GMT

x64 Vista Not For You? Then Download a Free 120-Day Trial of Windows XP Professional x64

Just in case the 64-bit editions of Windows Vista are not the thing for you, the free 120 days version of Windows XP Professional x64 is still available for download. This is nothing new, by all means. In fact the download went live all the way in 2005. These days the free trial version passed the two-year milestone ...

26 July 2007
12:17 GMT

The Best-Kept Secret over at Microsoft... Vista SP1? Windows Seven?

There is little argument to contradict the fact that the first Service Packs for Windows Vista and Windows Seven are some of the best kept secrets over at Redmond. Well, Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group runs a tight shift... and the Omerta he imposed for all things re...

25 July 2007
07:26 GMT

Forget about Windows Vista Aero, Get Ready for Windows Seven Ribbon

Forget about Windows Vista's Windows Aero graphical user interface applauded by Microsoft as one of the top new evolved features of the operating system, but less popular with the platform's users. Windows Seven, the successor of Windows Vista has the potential to introduce a completely revamped GUI, courte...

24 July 2007
13:03 GMT

Now that Vista Is Done and Over With, What Next?

Microsoft's latest operating system was initially introduced to the corporate environment on November 30, 2006. Then at the end of January 2007, Windows Vista was also made available for the general public together with the Office 2007 System. And although speculations revealed that Vista would be the last mamm...

24 July 2007
11:59 GMT

Microsoft Plans to Reinvent the Windows Taskbar

In future versions of the Windows operating system, users should expect a completely reinvented Windows taskbar. Microsoft has already evolved the strip of desktop real estate at the bottom of the screen in accordance with various versions of Windows; still, the taskbar has remained essentially loyal to the same conc...

24 July 2007
09:52 GMT

Why Vista's Successor Windows Seven Is... Windows Seven

Microsoft has officially conformed that the successor of Windows Vista is planned for availability in 2010 and that the product is being referred to internally as Windows Seven (7). Work is already under way on Windows Seven, but Microsoft revealed only scarce details of the development process and the final product,...

23 July 2007
08:07 GMT

Microsoft Confirms 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Seven for 2010

Windows Seven, or Windows 7 if you prefer, is the next version of the Windows platform designed to replace Windows Vista. Following the business release of Vista in November 2006 and the general launch in January 2007, Microsoft has now presented an official shipping date for Windows Seven: 2010. Although initially r...

23 July 2007
05:45 GMT

Over 800 New Features Requested for Windows Seven, Vista's Successor

Back in December 2006 Microsoft debuted an initiative designed to permit end users to participate in the shaping of upcoming editions of Windows. With Windows Seven lined up to succeed Windows Vista in 2009, Microsoft welcomed feedback designed to impact the development process of the upcoming edition of Windows. Act...

12 July 2007
12:00 GMT

Microsoft: Windows Seven and Office 14 Just as Big as Windows Vista and Office 2007

Microsoft has reiterated its commitment to the desktop. Building on its co-founder Bill Gates' vision of a PC on every desk in every home, Microsoft will continue to focus on delivering desktop products. And in this context, nothing will change when it comes down to the development of the company's main cas...

11 July 2007
04:06 GMT

Does Windows Vista Have Any Chance of Becoming Microsoft's First Online Operating System?

What chances does Windows Vista have of becoming Microsoft's first online hosted operating system? A Cloud OS Windows Vista would imply that users will no longer need to run the operating system on their machines, but instead access it online. Microsoft has failed to confirm any possibility that Vista will be tr...

28 June 2007
08:27 GMT

Microsoft Plans to Combine 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista After SP1

Although it has downplayed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as just a standard refresh, Microsoft in fact plans to combine 32-bit and 64-bit versions of its latest operating system. The Redmond Company is under an all out Windows Omerta, gagging all details related to the first service pack for Windows Vista, to Windows ...

15 June 2007
05:45 GMT

The First Taste of Delays with Windows Seven

Windows Vista is par excellence a product associated with countless delays, and still in a sense bearing the great sin of succeeding Windows XP after a five-year gap. In this context, there are those that are still to forgive Microsoft for the half of decade they had to wait for a new operating system. This is why, e...

25 May 2007
04:46 GMT

Microsoft Officially Confirms 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Seven/Windows 2009

32-bit will live after Windows Vista. Microsoft has officially confirmed that Windows Seven/Windows 2009, the operating system that will succeed Windows Vista, will come in both x86 and x64 versions. For a company that is muted by Windows Omerta, when it comes to releasing any details about its plans for the upcoming...

18 May 2007
06:50 GMT

Windows Seven vs. Mac OS X Leopard vs. Linux

With Windows Vista hot out of the Redmond ovens, with Mac OS X Leopard still "In Apple Utero" and with Linux accounting for less than 1% of the operating systems market, the perspective shifts to the future. Not very far, just around 2010. Microsoft promised to make available the upcoming edition of the Windows platf...

7 May 2007
12:14 GMT

What Should We Expect from Windows Seven?

Windows Seven is the successor of Windows Vista planned for availability in 2009. That much is certain, anything else are pure rumors. With Microsoft gagging all channels of communication related to Windows Seven all we are left with is speculation. In this regard, I thought I would elaborate just a tad on security e...

27 March 2007
10:10 GMT

First Rule of Windows vNext

So... Let's talk about Windows Fiji... As the rule above imposed as a part of the Windows Omerta only applies to Microsoft employees, you and me can just about speculate about everything, including let's say... Windows Fiji. If there still is any doubt left in your mind as to the association between Windows...

22 March 2007
12:31 GMT

Windows Seven - The Life After Windows Vista

Microsoft has managed to break its own Windows Omerta. While not issuing any official comments or details on the successor of Windows Vista, Microsoft did manage to let a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Windows Future Investment Areas" slip through its censorship. Windows Seven is expected to be made available in 2...

22 March 2007
09:46 GMT

Windows vNext Omerta - Microsoft Developer Gets Back in Line

Simultaneously with the commercial availability of Microsoft's latest operating system, reports related to Windows Vista were downgraded a level and became simply less news worthy. And all the attention tended to shift to the next version of Windows. In this context, there have been a lot of code-names circulate...

21 March 2007
10:06 GMT

Windows Fiji Drops Out of Band Before Windows 7/Seven/Vienna

Windows Vista, Windows Fiji and the Windows Seven. This is what we should expect out of Microsoft following the January 30, 2007 commercial release of Windows Vista. For some time, speculations have pointed out that Windows Fiji is in fact the first Service Pack for Windows Vista. As Microsoft is officially not comme...

20 March 2007
10:45 GMT




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