For the end users, be them in the home or in the corporate environments, the road to Windows 7 (Seven) leads more or less to Windows Vista. But for Microsoft, there is an entirely different path altogether.

The fact of the matter is that, as far as the development efforts are concerned, Vista is a wrapped up chapter. The Redmond company has already begun moving forward. Of course that Microsoft too will have intermediary stages on its way to Windows 7.

A couple of them as a matter of fact in the coming year, with the availability of the first service pack for Windows Vista and the third and final service pack for Windows XP. Currently, Vista SP1 is planned for the first quarter of 2008, following the availability of Windows Server 2008, formerly code-named Longhorn, because of the shared kernel version. XP SP3 has a more relaxed launch date, as Microsoft is focusing on Vista. The third refresh for XP will be made available by mid 2008.

At the same time, Microsoft is also beginning to build the contours of Windows 7. Seven (7) is the label of Steven Sinofsky, the senior vice president for…

In addition to being an OS with share in the branch of the NT, Windows Vista is an intermediate version with Windows Vienna, its “revolutionary” successor.
Thus in addition to comprising many news very interesting functionalities Vista prepares the ground of its successor.

Vienna Windows

Windows Vienna is in fact the name of the next operating system of Microsoft. Final version will replace XP and Vista completely. In Vienna, all will be different; it will be an entirely reorganized system. None the software turning under Windows XP or Vista will be able to function (note of jb there: that was to be the case with Vista, but Microsoft with fact half-turn in way history not of not disturbing its users too much).

The interface

What one says Microsoft will strike this point extremely! All the reference marks of Windows should disappear. Thus this succession should finally announce the end of the

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