Expectations deflated with next Windows version
Details of Microsoft's next Windows release - Windows 7 - are trickling into public knowledge. Windows 7 shares its kernel and driver model with Vista. However the main attraction will be the touchscreen user interface option which I guess we're all familiar with from having seen the iPhone and iTouch - right? No? Take a look here.
Alongside the obvious marketing build up to Windows 7, Microsoft have - for the techies - provided a blog to grow interest and anticipation in the build up to the 2010 scheduled release. Here is that Windows 7 Microsoft blog.
They soon dampened expectations however, with an announcement that the server version of Windows 7 would be called, and wait for it, Windows Server 2008 R2. The R2 signifying a few new minor features. So after all that, not so ground-breakingly interesting, eh?
It will be interesting to see if sales of Windows 7 consumer and business client versions take a hit accordingly, with the veneer worn so thin. Though I suspect their agencies will do a great job, what with Microsoft's recent penchant for celebrity product endorsements.
In amongst the hullabaloo over Windows 7, of far more interest is what Microsoft are trying their best to keep hidden from competitors. This is codenamed Midori. Midori is a post-Windows operating system, recognising that computers no longer exist in the form of the discrete desktop PC and are now networked and abstracted platforms and devices, interconnected via the internet. Midori is not a rehashed version of Windows; it is redesigned from the ground upwards, supposedly with its roots in a research project called Singularity.
Of course there aren't any official blogs out there currently and search engines don't seem to be giving away too many clues on Midori, though it's certainly causing more than few ripples in the blogosphere.
Keeping on the Microsoft note - here's an interestingonline photo stitching site (broken url to photosynth.net as of September 2019!) that last week graduated from Microsoft Labs.
Until next time.
Alongside the obvious marketing build up to Windows 7, Microsoft have - for the techies - provided a blog to grow interest and anticipation in the build up to the 2010 scheduled release. Here is that Windows 7 Microsoft blog.
They soon dampened expectations however, with an announcement that the server version of Windows 7 would be called, and wait for it, Windows Server 2008 R2. The R2 signifying a few new minor features. So after all that, not so ground-breakingly interesting, eh?
It will be interesting to see if sales of Windows 7 consumer and business client versions take a hit accordingly, with the veneer worn so thin. Though I suspect their agencies will do a great job, what with Microsoft's recent penchant for celebrity product endorsements.
In amongst the hullabaloo over Windows 7, of far more interest is what Microsoft are trying their best to keep hidden from competitors. This is codenamed Midori. Midori is a post-Windows operating system, recognising that computers no longer exist in the form of the discrete desktop PC and are now networked and abstracted platforms and devices, interconnected via the internet. Midori is not a rehashed version of Windows; it is redesigned from the ground upwards, supposedly with its roots in a research project called Singularity.
Of course there aren't any official blogs out there currently and search engines don't seem to be giving away too many clues on Midori, though it's certainly causing more than few ripples in the blogosphere.
Keeping on the Microsoft note - here's an interesting
Until next time.
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