Perhaps you do not even noticed, but last month trial Windows Vista exactly one year. November 30, 2006 all remembered as the official release date of Vista for business soon, which will be an interval of two months' - January 30, 2007 - followed by release for ordinary users, ie for all of us.

Unfortunately Microsoft, the number of users who have decided to migrate to Vista, is, rather, to "some" and not to "all", as Microsoft relied. The lion's share of sales of Vista are selling OEM partner companies that pre-OS to the new computers, with some OEM producer preferred to give its users a choice between XP and Vista. Buying a new computer is not to say that every buyer wants to get a new operating system, rather than the old, with all the old drivers and all applications work without a bitch - without motivation.

Unnamed

You can forget the original OS code name - Vienna. Group Chief Stephen Sinofski Windows developers (Steven Sinofsky), whose candidacy was proposed by retired on pension Ollchinom Jim (Jim Allchin), decided that the name would be different. Of course, the final name that appears on all boxes with OS will be a big surprise to all, as once was the case with Me, XP and Vista.

Perhaps that Sinofski revert to a simple numbering based on years of release software in the world, which was adopted with an exit Windows 95 and has since been used for the majority of client software, published by Microsoft. In addition, this approach to the numbering used to successfully Office, the design of which Office 2000 to Office 2007 and worked Sinofski (though in the development of Office 95 and 97 took part).

Perhaps the room?

In this case, Windows may well become 7 Windows 2010. Microsoft is constantly changing their plans for the Windows client versions, sometimes promising to release a new operating system within 18 months, and sometimes - for a period of two years or more.

Virtual machines for obsolete software

There are repeated confirmation that the Windows virtualization 7 will be used to work with all software that is not created specifically for Windows 7, or using Microsoft. NET. 7 The possibility of using Windows virtual machines to run applications obsolete became known in July from a branch Forum Channel 9, which was then immediately removed.

Despite the fact that the feature is a new one for Microsoft, the approach is not so new. Apple has provided users with a migration Mac OS Classic to Mac OS X by downloading classical OS in a virtual machine, if users suddenly required to run any of the old applications.

At this early stage of developing vozmetsya give no assurance that any of the pledges or infiltrators in the network functions will be truly translated into Windows 7. At a similar stage of development of Microsoft Vista developers talked about everything, starting with the new relational file system WinFS to all kinds of reminders that never lived up to release the first beta version of Longhorn.

Previous Merit Sinofski characterize it as a realist, so virtualization in future versions of Windows seem quite real promise. Microsoft has already implemented virtualization technology called Hyper-V, turning it into Windows Server 2008.

Regarding hardware, it will not be a problem: By that time, as will be finalized Windows 7 (read 2010), chetyrehyadernye processors systematically replace binucleated, having at its disposal a large amount of L3-cache.

L3 cache is already used in architecture 'Barcelona' is announced by AMD processors in 'Nehalem' from Intel, which is designed to replace the existing Core micro-architecture in the second half of 2008. In fact, if Windows 7 will be released only at the end of 2010, according to Intel roadmapu, at the time of sale will be the successor Nehalem - processor, code-named Gesher.

Taking into account the fact that Nehalem will be a Seagate processor, there is no reason to doubt that it will be possible to use every kernel of this multi-processor work under a separate VM, a flash drive - to store and run software virtualization that as a result should lead to a substantial increase in work during the session, in particular the 'time of transfer' at boot and shutdown VM.

It is noteworthy that virtualization comparable manner similar to those used Mac OS X to run software created once for Mac OS 9: The launch is a 'classic environment', a virtual copy of OS 9 (though worth mentioning that a user can run a 'classical process').

Does Microsoft plan such changes in Windows? OS itself, there is about 20 years old, and 32 - bit codes current generation of Windows recently celebrated his 15 - year anniversary since the release of Windows NT 3.1 in the distant 1993.

Microsoft Windows is set hours of 7 zero position: to create an OS for 2010, elaborated from scratch, but with the support of older or classic applications, which by 2010 will be applications for XP and Vista, are running in a virtual environment.Aware that the next version of Windows will be based on 'microkernel', known under the code name MinWin. As previously reported, MinWin called "basic Windows source code 7.

MinWin is an internal draft of Microsoft intended to leave for NT-kernel only basic capabilities, and then using it "as a basis for all subsequent Windows", as reported by Eric Traut (Eric Traut), Microsoft engineer, during a demonstration in Microsoft technologies virtualizatsionnyh University of Illinois.

This is not just the OS, which is installed on most computers in this room, and this is an OS for the centers, servers and appliances. "As the evidence showed Trauth MinWin version consisting of the entire 100 system files, holding only 25 MB of hard disk space and 40 MB RAM. "MinWin still higher than we would like, but we have made an auspicious step to clean layers of the OS, and now we clean architectural layer."

The return of WinFS?

Controversial remains the question of WinFS, which is at the top of NTFS file system to store data and to obtain access to them, and manage them according to their relationships with other data. Initially WinFS was to use SQL Server 2005, which has built-in support for XML, and then the same was one of the few pillars of Longhorn. Later the company was forced to abandon WinFS, in particular because it was unable to reach a remote speed completion of a process that present the user a simpler system NTFS believed it was eligible.

Despite promises to release WinFS a year later release Vista, the latest news said that WinFS will be built at Katmai engine used in SQL Server 2008. Microsoft, opportunities, and implements a relational file system for Windows 7, it is possible that it will use Katmai engine, but the name of the legendary 'WinFS' is likely to Let anxiety.

The new interface

No doubt that the Windows 7.0 interface will be different from what we see in Vista. The decision to award Sinofski entirely new Office 2007 UI, replaced in the usual buttons operations on the tape.

Work on changing the interface for Office 2007 were led by Julie Larson-Green (Julie Larson-Green), which now, as reported earlier this year, Sinofski appointed head of the "User Experience" for Windows 7.

Will there be a change Windows interface 7 2007? It is difficult to say, since the interface of Office 2007 changes were not an end in itself: Larson-Green returned to the original principles of the package, and it certainly prodelaet and the same with Windows. Starting from scratch, it will be primarily interested in the question what users want from their computers, then it will determine how the OS will be able to help out in this.

Do it yourself

Publications on the site Channel 9, speaking on the emergence of Windows virtualization 7, also confirm the fact that the interface is completely customizable OS, it is possible that will be realized bundle real user interface and shell Explorer.

It is noteworthy that Microsoft has already held office envelope from the OS Explorer in Windows Server 2008, allowing administrators to install only the kernel - the so-called 'Server Core' - and then interact with it via the command line or a remote computer console with the running of government.

Also worth mentioning that when Microsoft removed the veil of secrecy from 'Whistler' to present Windows XP, the company announced that a new interface 'Luna' should also be fully customized. As you know, this was not to be realized. The same was with Vista, or rather with Longhorn, even before suffered such an interface of wild number of cosmetic operations, which not even Michael Jackson Broncos. Again, the task of setting up the interface was ceded to third-party developers.

Well, this is today's picture Windows 7, at least until the next leaks or official statements Sinofski team. As stated above, these are only the first steps of a long road to Windows 7. However, there is no doubt that this will be a delightful journey.