According to a Microsoft executive, the company is already starting to draw up plans to deliver the Vista successor as early as 2009. Keep in mind that this is likely a large service pack equivalent, although it could be a significant overhaul. Vista shipped more than five years after the introduction of Windows XP and about 2 1/2 years after Windows Service Pack 2 was released. So in the general timeline of things, this would make sense. Gizmodo and PC World are both reporting that the new operating system or service pack has an internal code-name of "Vienna" but Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development for Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division, would not confirm the name.
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Vista Kernel API Opened to Security Firms
The brouhaha over developing third-party security applications for Windows Vista may be far from over, but Microsoft has followed up on a pledge it made last October to clue third-party security developers into the APIs they’ll need to use to tap into the Vista kernel.
In order to improve security in Windows Vista—at least, compared to the long-standing nightmare which has been security under Windows XP—Microsoft extended its PatchGuard technology to isolate the operation system kernel in the 64-bit edition of Windows Vista. The decision left no mechanisms for developers of third-party security applications—like Symantec and McAfee—to create security, scanning, and firewall products for the 64-bit version of Vista.
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