Looking beyond Microsoft Vista - Fiji and Vienna

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December 30, 2006 - 6:47 AM

As we all know that Microsoft Vista was originally scheduled to be released in 2003, after two years of Windows XP, but it got delayed by over five years due to various reasons. Definitely, Vista is very very improved OS over the previous versions, but the delayed in the launch has cost Microsoft, billions of dollars. Now the question at the moment is, what exactly after Vista? Microsoft can't afford to wait another five years for an operating system. People are becoming more aware of the choices they have, and Linux is no longer a hobbyist OS, and that day isn't far away when it becomes simple enough to be a viable alternative to Windows. The competition is fierce. That is why, to stay at the top, Microsoft has planned a 'Vista R2', codenamed Fiji, which will be released some time in 2008. And after Fiji, there will be Windows 'Vienna'. Windows Fiji, will not be a totally different OS from Vista; but it will be an add-on. Whereas Vienna will be totally different from Vista.http://www.pclaunches.com/industry_buzz/looking_beyond_microsoft_vista_fiji_and_vienna.php

Does this mean that Fiji is actually Vista Service Pack 1?

Windows Vista Down; On to Windows 7?
Looking ahead to a whole new breed of Windows.

February 2007 • by Mary Jo Foley

The prolonged, three-month launch of Windows Vista is finally history. Microsoft delivered Vista to
business users on Nov. 30 and to the rest of the world on Jan. 29. So now it's on to the "Fiji" and
"Vienna" releases about which we've been hearing for months, right?

Wrong.http://redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1623

Just when you thought it's safe to wait for SP1 vista, Vienna should be hitting us in 2009

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/10/vista-successor-vienna-planned-for-late-2009/

Now that the US anti-trust order has expired, expect MS to return to their old ways. That is a new O/S every 2 years at ever increasing prices, instead of free service packs. Linux is looking better every day. :cool:

There is no official word about Vienna. Actually MS has said that those rumors about 2009 are false.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/2/13/7037