What's New on the Windows Roadmap?

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration and content management. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s technology... more

Major developments in the Windows OS since the Mar. 2007 Enterprise Software Roadmap include the following:

Windows 7 (product name to be announced later) will be the next client release of Windows Vista, and will probably be available in 2010. Windows 7 will be available for both 32- and 64-bit (x64) processors
Microsoft is working on the eighth version of Internet Explorer (IE). If Firefox and other browsers continue to take browser market share from IE, Microsoft could ship this prior to Windows 7 in 2010
In an effort to make Software Assurance for Windows clients more attractive, several features have been combined into a Desktop Optimization Pack and are now available only to customers with Software Assurance
Future versions of Windows Server, based on Windows Server 2008, starting with the derivative products such as Compute Cluster edition, will only be available for 64-bit processors
In order to ensure that the Windows Server Virtualization (hypervisor virtualization)

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