VISTA 2009

Microsoft corporate vice-president of development Ben Fathi said the next version of Windows would be released in the latter part of 2009.

The major improvements would revolve around things they should have included in Windows Vista Release this 2007 namely: file system WinFS, UEFI Bios replacement, advanced security features.


The other developments in the pipeline are the integration of pieces to SQL Server database, ActiveX Data Objects, etc.

I don’t think this version would take longer and suffer all the delays as it took Windows Vista. This feature set does not represent a large re-architecture of the platform but would fall into a normal iteration of development. The underlying architecture of Windows Vista would be used and add all these features which should not cause much delay.

One notable thing I noticed is the possible integration of SQL Server database which may add to the license cost of the software. On the other hand they may provide with no additional cost since they would be integrating that in their business application suite that makes it easier for people to integrate personal and business usage of the operating system.