Windows Vienna: Vista Successor, Out in Two Years February 12, 2007

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With Vista just hitting shelves, Microsoft is already looking ahead to their next OS codenamed "Vienna", that is slated for a 2009 release. This from development VP Ben Fathi:

We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is...Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers...It's too early for me to talk about it...But over the next few months I think you're going to start hearing more and more.

Hmmm...lots of tech speak going on there. Let's give the prototype Gizmodo Translator a whack at it:

The end user is fucked.

Ahhh, now it makes sense. – Mark Wilson

Microsoft: Vista Follow-up Likely in 2009 [pcworld]