How much Windows Vienna will be better than Windows Vista?

By SoftwareTipsPalace.com | Date: August 24, 2007

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.

Windows Vienna

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).

Vienna 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 bar of the tasks, present since Windows 95, more toolbars, more menus traditional.

It was evoked the appearance of “magpie-menus”, of the circular menus (similar to those used in Sims 2 to interact with its character), with functionalities equivalent to the “Dock” of MacOS.

The filing system

In the place of WinFS which will appear with Fiji (next the patch for Windows Vista), Vienna will propose a new version of NTFS, itself based on WinFS, but more powerful. The NTFS of Vienna will not have any more sites of files and files with the direction where hear we it since always under Windows. It will be with the software themselves to classify and index the files necessary to their correct operation. What explains why the old software will not go under Vienna?

Vienna Safety compared with Windows Vista and XP

Important question at Microsoft. To increase the safety of Vienna, Microsoft decided (finally) to re-examine the management of the rights administrators in an original way. The operating system should be completely separated from the applications installed, which, normally, will raise stability and safety. The applications will have to function separately of the system (without being able to reach the system files) what would make impossible the damage of the system by a malevolent program.

Microsoft wants applied the principle of Sandbox. That will make it possible to isolate the system files from the user (not as under XP or the user is directly a “root”: a user having all the capacities), and thus increases considerably safety and stability.

Finally the applications not certified by Microsoft will function in a separated memory capacity, so that the application cannot damage the machine. Already, in Vista, Internet Explorer 7 functions with little thing close to this way.

Note jb: the majority of these functionalities were to be integrated into Vista, but Microsoft in to decide differently. See on this subject this treating page of the five solutions which would have made of Vista the system that everyone waited.

But still more to come?

Others “surprises” are also with the program, but they are obviously less important than those stated previously.

Among them there is already: A system of striking improved, “Supplements Ace You Type”. With the manner of Google Suggest, it suggests you words while you type, to save time.

The explorer of Windows also will undergo a small face lift to him. A new bar of the tasks will make its appearance, based on new concepts invented during these 10 last years.