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	Microsoft Windows Vienna
		Windows Vienna will represent the start of a different generation of operating systems, bringing in new concepts and support for new types of hardware, along with a better security and a modular approach, which will allow future versions of Windows to be built more easily on Windows Vienna's engine.
		Windows Fiji is planned to be released in 2008, while Windows Vienna had its estimated release date in 2010.
		Windows Vienna is the successor of Windows Vista
	www.geekpedia.com /windowsvienna (441 words)

	Microsoft Windows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Their first attempt Windows 2000 failed to meet their goals and released as a business system while Windows was rushed out to plug the consumer the merger took place with the next Windows XP which finally rendered DOS obsolete.
		Windows comes pre-installed on computers (as a bundled OEM version) making it the default choice much of the market since vendors going alternatives are likely to face retaliation from Microsoft.
		Windows was originally for ease-of-use on a single-user PC without network connection and did not have security built in from the outset.
	www.freeglossary.com /Microsoft_Windows (2245 words)

	Windows "Vienna" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In January 2006, "Blackcomb" was renamed to "Vienna".
		Originally, internal sources pitched Blackcomb as being not just a major revision of Windows, but a complete departure from the way users today typically think about interacting with a computer.
		While Windows Vista is intended to be a technologies-based release, with some added UI sparkle (in the form of the Windows Aero set of technologies and guidelines), Vienna is targeted directly at revolutionizing the users of the product interact with their PCs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Windows_Blackcomb (751 words)

	History of Windows
		Windows tried to auto detect which mode to run in, although it could be forced to run in a specific mode using the switches: /r (real), /s (standard) and /3 (386) respectively.
		Windows NT 3.1 (Microsoft marketing desired to make Windows NT appear to be a continuation of Windows 3.1) arrived in Beta form to developers at the July 1992 Professional Developers Conference in San Francisco.
		Windows Me was conceived as a quick one-year project that served as a stopgap release between Windows 98 and the upcoming Windows XP due to the cancellation of the home consumer edition of Windows 2000.
	www.vistaarticles.com /articles/13/1/History-of-Windows (2818 words)

	Free Computer Help - Geeks to Go! - Windows Vienna to follow Vista (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Windows Vienna is the new codename for Windows Blackcomb the successor to Windows Vista.
		While Windows Vista is intended to be a technologies-based release, with some UI changes (in the form of the Aero set of technologies and guidelines), Vienna is targeted directly at revolutionizing the way we interact with our home and office PCs.
		For instance, the "Start" philosophy, introduced in Windows 95, may be completely replaced by a "new interface" which was said in 1999 to be scheduled for Blackcomb, before being moved to the Longhorn project, and then back to Blackcomb.
	www.geekstogo.com /print.php?id=874 (269 words)

	BigKahuna's Surf Shop - Windows
		Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) was originally due in fall 2003, but a spate of hacker attacks that summer prompted Microsoft to regroup and rethink its plans for SP2.
		Windows 98se/SR1 is now the most current version of Windows 98 and includes some of the NT kernal and new registry handling to improve speed.
		In August of 2001 Blackcomb was pushed back several years and Vista (originally codenamed "Longhorn" after a bar in the Whistler-Blackcomb resort) was announced as a release between XP and Blackcomb.
	www.concentric.net /~mikeq/mikeq/windows.html (4964 words)

	Blackcomb
		Blackcomb is going to use HTML 3.2 in the kernal, along with basic Javascripting.
		Blackcomb is Longhorns successor and flcomb is still in planning NOT internal alpha.
		Blackcomb will be the final element to get the.net framework in use it will be completly restructed and redesigned using a YUKON filesystem some say this is fat64 which it isnt.
	www.anetforums.com /posts.aspx?ThreadIndex=184 (3235 words)

	Windows Vista
		Windows Vista was originally expected to ship sometime early in 2006 as a minor step between Windows XP and Windows Blackcomb.
		In Windows Vista the thumbnail concept is taken further by overlaying different imagery to communicate more information about the particular file such as a picture frame around the thumbnail of an image file, or a filmstrip on a video file.
		Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSat), a built in benchmarking tool which analyzes the different subsystems (graphics, memory, etc), and uses the results to allow for comparison to other Vista systems, and for software optimizations.
	www.vistaarticles.com /articles/2/1/Windows-Vista (2238 words)

	BetaNews \| 'Blackcomb' Renamed to 'Vienna'
		Blackcomb was named back in 2000, when Windows XP was still known as Whistler.
		Windows 95 had been worked on since before Windows 3.1 was even released.
		Windows 2000 was being redesigned as soon as NT 4.0 was beta (in 1995!) That's the way MS does things.
	www.betanews.com /article/Blackcomb_Renamed_to_Vienna/1137704583 (1947 words)

	myITforum.com : Windows Longhorn will serves extremely as a client operating system . . .
		In case of Windows NT 4 this distinction between the server and workstation editions was minimal, but in case of a Windows of 2000 this (distinctions) became more essential.
		There are only a little bit of the official information (from Microsoft) about this new operating system: few times Microsoft heads have mentioned it code name in a speeches and a mention in one of the Microsoft documents send to a court, during the trial about violation of the exclusive legislation.
		Windows Longhorn operating system, which should come on replacement to present versions of a Windows, is called to change representations both about operating systems and about the Microsoft.
	www.myitforum.com /articles/18/view.asp?id=4518 (1957 words)

	Guild Companies
		The whole point behind the Whistler and Blackcomb Windows operating system roadmaps was for Microsoft to get its desktop and server operating systems all on the same 32-bit Windows NT kernel, extend it to 64-bit Itanium processors, and then keep them all more or less in lockstep.
		Blackcomb was supposed to be in the market in late 2003 or early 2004, and it was supposed to have support for a what was then called the Next Generation Web Services at Microsoft and what is now called.NET.
		Windows NT 4.0 was a pretty good server, and only after a lot of marketing, demonstrations that it was a more stable operating system, and the impending end of life for Windows NT at Microsoft and its software partners did Windows 2000 start taking off.
	www.itjungle.com /mid/mid111302-story03.html (981 words)

	APPLE VS MICROSOFT (WINDOWS VS MACINTOSH) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yet it appears that Windows XP in 2001 contained 40 to 50 millions lines of code (and millions of lines of Spaghetti code) and the history tells you why.
		Windows is still not up to par yet with the Mac in these areas today, but Windows have cleaned up their act considerably since the 1980's.
		In the 80's in engineering the only thing Windows 3.1 was used was at lunchtime, for the few people who had loaded AOL on their computers.
	www.jmusheneaux.com (9387 words)

	Windows Vista (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Windows Vista has several planned new features such as an entirely new user-interface called Aero, improved searching technology dubbed Search, and an XML specification designed for document formats and similar in many ways to Adobe's PDF entitled XPS.
		Windows Vista was originally expected to ship sometime late in 2003 as a minor step between Windows XP and Windows Blackcomb.
		Although not enabled by default, this refresh sees the return of the Windows Sidebar, which had been removed from previous build due to a memory leak, and the introduction of Desktop Gadgets, both of which are part of Microsoft's Gadgets line of mini-applications.
	www.vistawin.org /index.html (3809 words)

	BetaNews \| Windows 'Longhorn' To Succeed XP?
		Blackcomb was initially slated for a late 2002 release, but Microsoft officials now concede even Longhorn may not hit that mark.
		With Windows XP set to complete beta testing next month, Microsoft is likely to clue in testers to the future of Windows at that point.
		Windows, making it widely distrubuted, and available with every home/work pc or laptop, that would explain the reason why MS gets a head start.
	www.betanews.com /article/996015821 (1807 words)

	The Future Of Windows - Software News by InformationWeek
		With a brand-new iteration of Windows scheduled for next year, and two other intriguing product launches also promised, the future of Windows promises to be interesting.
		Formerly code-named Longhorn (which, rumor has it, was named after a bar at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia, Canada), Windows Vista is currently scheduled for release in the second half of 2006.
		Since Windows XP is beginning to feel long in the tooth, this is a major release for Microsoft.
	www.informationweek.com /software/opensource/174400472 (359 words)

	Josh's Windows Weblog : Windows "Blackcomb", now Windows "Vienna"
		In a post over at C9 Robert Scoble informs us that Microsoft has changed the code name for the next generation of Windows which had been "Blackcomb" and may now be "Vienna".
		It wasn't clear why they changed the name for the next release of Windows or if this will be the final name, but what is clear is that they have boring codenames down pat.
		They really need something that is more inspiring and fun...so, get your thinking caps on and let's see who can come up with the best codename for the next generation of Windows by posting it as a reply to this post.
	windowsconnected.com /blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/01/18/480.aspx (428 words)

	WinMag
		When Windows was born, it came into the world as a 16-bit program.
		Called Windows 95, it was the firstborn of the 32-bit Win32 generation, a Windows directly descended from the first.
		This version of Windows was written completely from scratch, without building on the older Windows code.
	www.winmag.com /columns/powertools/2000/30.htm (1405 words)

	Windows XP: The Early Returns PC Magazine - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Formally introducing Windows XP in New York last week, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates symbolically typed "exit" and logged out of DOS for the last time, marking the end of an era for Microsoft's DOS-based operating systems, from version 1.0 in 1981 all the way through Windows 95 and Windows Me.
		Next Up: Longhorn and Blackcomb Windows XP is not the end of the line for Windows.
		The new Windows 2000 server, called the Windows.NET server family, is already in prerelease testing and is due for release in the first half of 2002.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200111/ai_ziff17452 (857 words)

	Windows Blackcomb re(code)named Vienna
		For instance, Windows 95 was codenamed "Chicago." More recently, Microsoft had settled on ski resort names as monikers.
		Windows XP was previously codenamed "Whistler" for a ski area just north of Seattle in British Columbia, Canada.
		Late Tuesday, Microsoft verified reports that it has pushed back the company's expected successor to Windows XP, code-named Blackcomb, and will develop an intermediate release called "Longhorn." Microsoft intends Blackcomb to be a major Windows relea...
	www.wininsider.com /news/?8890 (618 words)

	» Windows XP \| All about Microsoft \| ZDNet.com
		And CardSpace is one of the elements of the.Net Framework 3.0, which Microsoft introduced alongside Windows Vista and has back-ported to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
		When Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 2, the company subsequently published a list of applications that didn't work properly (or at all) with the SP2 update.
		When Microsoft officials acknowledged the decision to change the Windows Blackcomb name to Windows Vienna, they said to expect other products to be part of the "beautiful vistas" line.
	blogs.zdnet.com /microsoft/?cat=25 (3652 words)

	Windows Memphis Screenshots - TechSpot OpenBoards
		Found this over at www.warp2search.com It is supposedly screenshots of a beta verson of Windows 98SE.
		MS says that Longhorn was always a planned interim between XP and Blackcomb.
		I actually had a "theme" that was flcomb in XP a while back.
	www.techspot.com /vb/topic1087.html (1172 words)

	News Events and Announcments
		Blackcomb (also named after that Canadian ski resort) was originally scheduled to be the successor to Windows XP, but the company decided to release Windows Vista in the interim while they focus on more ambitious changes for Blackcomb.
		Blackcomb should feature two technologies originally planned for Vista but removed because of time constraints: the WinFS file storage system, and a new command-line scripting language known as the Microsoft Command Shell (code name Monad).
		Judge for yourself: A beta version of Windows Live with limited features and functions is available at live.com.
	www.lctinc.net /pages/news.asp (1799 words)

	The Buzz : Windows "Blackcomb" renamed Windows Vienna
		The next great Windows operating system (after Windows Vista) got a name change late last week.
		Windows "Blackcomb" (named for a Canadian ski resort) has been changed to Windows Vienna.
		Blackcomb, like Whistler is a mountain near Whistler village ski resort.
	hive.net /Member/blogs/the_buzz/archive/2006/01/23/12166.aspx (278 words)

	Gui's - COMPARISON of XEROX, Apple & Microsoft Windows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As far as Linux is concerned - Dvorak (2004) says - Ouote "It tells me that Linux boxes, which are actually cheaper, could surpass Windows machines, if their were more software for them." Unquote.
		Windows 1.0 and 3.0 - No comparison to the Apple Lisa, Macintosh or Star, but in the computer population was already cloned by 1990, via IBM, IBM compatibles and Microsoft.
		Quote: "The merging of the Windows NT/2000 and Windows 3.1/ 1995/19 98/ ME lines was achieved with Windows XP"
	www.jmusheneaux.com /index24.htm (673 words)

	All Vista World
		A while back, when Microsoft announced its decision to no longer release a monthly CTP for Vista, we were a bit worried, since we wanted to follow-up on the latest developments of Microsoft’s next-gen. operating system (though Microsoft promised to update current versions via critical updates).
		The decision to block unsigned drivers from loading is a direct attempt to restrict the spread of powerful rootkits that intercept the native API in kernel-mode and directly manipulate Windows data structures.
		The improved Windows font display allowed a design with proportions closer to normal text than traditional monospaced fonts like Courier.
	www.allvistaworld.com (1253 words)

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