[UFCPRIDE04]

Just wondering what some new things coming in the world of operating systems are, from Linux, Apple, anyone. Here's a blurb on Windows Blackcomb, the successor to Vista (which looks like a simple update to XP) from Wikipedia:

Internal sources pitch Blackcomb as being not just a major revision of Windows, but a complete departure from the way we have typically thought about interacting with a computer. Whilst Windows Vista is intended to be a technologies-based release, with some added UI sparkle (in the form of the Aero set of technologies and guidelines), Blackcomb 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 the "new interface" which was said in 1999 to be scheduled for Blackcomb, before being moved to the Longhorn project, and then back to Blackcomb.

The Explorer shell will be replaced in its entirety, with features such as the taskbar being replaced by a new concept based on the last 10 years of R&D at the Microsoft "VIBE" research lab. Projects such as GroupBar and LayoutBar are expected to make an appearance, allowing users to more effectively manage and keep track of their applications and documents while in use, and a new way of launching applications is expected - among other ideas, Microsoft are investigating a pie menu-type circular interface, similar in function to Mac OS X's "dock".


ALSO there is this one called Unununium, which IDK if anyone has heard of or knows anything about, but it sounds interesting, and pretty new:

One of the primary goals is to greatly enhance and simplify communication between different components. There is also no difference between an application and a program library. Unlike most operating system architectures in which applications can utilize existing shared libraries, Unununium's environment is built out of a hierarchy of components where each of them is designed for one specific task, like editing text input. By means of the Unununium Operating Engine each component shall be able to be dynamically loaded, unloaded, or replaced during runtime.

Access to all data, independent of its nature, shall be performed in a universal way. In most of today's operating systems data either can be accessed from local file systems or by several different interfaces which handle data (e.g. on the internet). The goal of Unununium is that every information accessible to the system can be accessed by an uniform method.

Here's some other info on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unununi...ting_system%29


Comments or any other new things?

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

blackcomb sounds like what vista was supposed to be. it wouldn't surprise me if it just ended up being a slight revision to vista.

[chopin1810]

I'm NEVER buying a release of Windows after XP. It's the last trustworthy release of Windows in Microsoft history. By the time Blackcomb comes out MS will be charging a per-month subscription fee to use Windows. This is a VERY realistic prediction. I've heard the upper management of corps like Intel, Cisco, Sun, and of course MS say that this is the "way of the future". I don't care about revamped cores, I'm not buying in to it. NEVER. Also I'm willing to bet that by something like 2011 we're all going to have Fritz chips and Trusted Computing installed. People need to realize that all of these Trusted Computing schemes are NOT there to protect the user, only to get Microsoft more money...
By the way, Unununium is the name of an extremely radioactive element... I don't know why they chose this as the codename...

[cayalee]

lets see what vista's like before speculating on what its successor will be like.

[a12ctic]

no windows os is revolutionary, companies like apple make revolutionary operating systems, ms copies them

[chopin1810]

Originally Posted by a12ctic

no windows os is revolutionary, companies like apple make revolutionary operating systems, ms copies them

Or they just copy stuff from *nix, remember UNIX had complex memory management features in the 60's, it took MS 30 years to catch up, like when people started noticing "hey, that illegal operation stuff is really annoying!" they finally implemented a real protected mode, hence the Windows NT kernel... just look at Windows 2000/XP, how all those "ADVANCED NEW MEMORY FEATURES!!!" MS was touting look so much like what UNIX completed in 1971...

[bryansmith]

I see this getting very anti-Microsoft very quickly....

Bryan

[cheetahman]

What about Belenix Live cd thats revolutionary

[CodeRoot]

I'm NEVER buying a release of Windows after XP. It's the last trustworthy release of Windows in Microsoft history.

I would consider this to be questionable/debatable -- as far as I am concerned, Windows 3.1 is the last thing Microsoft produced that could be labeled "trustworthy" in any sense of the word -- I stopped trusting Microsoft when Microsoft rewrote the DOS FORMAT program to actually prevent real/true and complete formatting. (I have forgotten what version of DOS was the last one to have the "good" FORMAT program in it. Shortly after, iirc, 'wipe' showed up on the scene...)

Also I'm willing to bet that by something like 2011 we're all going to have Fritz chips and Trusted Computing installed. People need to realize that all of these Trusted Computing schemes are NOT there to protect the user, only to get Microsoft more money...

What people need to realize is that to whatever degree they support Microsoft/Windows - no matter how small - they are supporting [the bringing about] of these types of things (anti-freedom).

[SpaceSquad]

Blackcomb has been around for like 10 years...it WAS supposed to be "Vista"...they've just postponed it like 50 000 times.