Windows Seven : The Next Generation

Windows Seven (codename: blackcomb) is the future generation of windows operating system, originally announced in February 2000, that has been subject to major delays and rescheduling.It is expected to be the combination of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.As of February 2007,the name of the Operating system was kept secure by Microsoft, though Windows 7 is working name of the project.

Windows Seven, formerly known as blackcomb, is just a major revision of windows and mainly focuses on the interaction between the user and the computer.In 1995, after the launch of Windows 95,for the first time, the start concept was introduced and it made Bill Gates to make a future generation desktop with all the programs in an 3D environment and makes the user to switch to various programs at his/her wish.He scheduled to launch Vienna in 1999 but due to launch of XP and Vista he postponed to 2009. While Windows Vista was intended to be an evolutionary release, "Vienna" is targeted directly at revolutionizing the way users of the product interact with their PCs.

Vision :

On February 9,2007, Microsoft's Ben Fathi claimed that the focus on the operating system was still being worked out, and could merely hint at some possibilities:

"We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe it's hypervisors. I don't know what it is" [...] "Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers."

Concept:

Bill Gates, in an interview with Newsweek, also suggested that the next version of Windows would be more user-centric.When asked to clarify what he meant, Gates said: "That means that right now when you move from one PC to another, you've got to install apps on each one, do upgrades on each one.Moving information between them is very painful. We can use Live Services to know what you're interested in. So even if you drop by a [public] kiosk or somebody else's PC, we can bring down your home page, your files, your fonts, your favorites and those things. So that's kind of the user-centric thing that Live Services can enable. [Also,] in Vista, things got a lot better with [digital] ink and speech, but by the next release there will be a much bigger bet. Students won't need textbooks; they can just use these tablet devices. Parallel computing is pretty important for the next release. We'll make it so that a lot of the high-level graphics will be just built into the operating system."

Features:

Vienna will also feature the sandboxed approach discussed during the Alpha/White Box development phase for Longhorn/Vista. All non-managed code will run in a sand boxed environment where access to the "outside world" is restricted by the operating system. Access to raw sockets will be disabled from within the sandbox, as will direct access to the file system, Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), and complete memory addressing. All access to outside applications, files, and protocols will be regulated by the operating system, and any malicious activity will be halted immediate. If this approach is successful, it bodes very well for security and safety, as it is virtually impossible for a malicious application to cause any damage to the system if it is locked inside a metaphorical glass box. As well, this sand boxed environment will be able to adapt itself to the code base it was written for. This will alleviate most problems that arise from back compatibility when a new operating system is made. Another feature mentioned by Bill Gates is "a pervasive typing line that will recognize the sentence that [the user is] typing in.The implications of this could be as simple as a "complete as you type" function as found in most modern search engines, (e.g. Google ), ENSO, or as complex as being able to give verbal commands to the PC without any concern for syntax. The former has been incorporated to an extent in Windows Vista.