Windows "Fiji"

[Gimpymoo]

Just to annoy the people moaning about the number of Vista threads, I bring you one about Vistas upgrade.

Just wondered if anyone knows anymore about this yet?

Apparently, it is going to be an upgrade or a major service pack including some of the features dropped from Vista which were initially announced for it. All this is rumour however,

The user interface will be updated with things that were originally promised for Vista, along with a more powerful sidebar, which will be more than just a dock for widgets
.Net Framework will be updated to 3.5 or 4
WinFS will be applied over NTFS to give us Virtual Folders
All bundled application will be updated to newer versions
Tighter integration with Windows Live. Probably through ‘Codename Nemo’, a media center application that’s integrated with Messenger, Spaces, and probably lots of other Windows Live Services
We might see Monaco, a music authoring tool, similar to Apple’s Garageband
Default playback of HD-DVD, Vista currently identifies these disks but cannot play them without an external decoder
A more advanced speech recognition software
The system will be made more secure
New themes, icons, wallpapers, games, and minor tweaks to almost everything.

 

[Digital Punk]

I just long for the day when you're given the option not to load half this crap when installing the OS.

 

[Lysander]

Yes, this is SP1, scheduled for 11 month's time.

 

[Gimpymoo]

If WinFS is going to be released as a SP, then that is fan dabi dozy.

 

[csmager]

If WinFS is going to be released as a SP, then that is fan dabi dozy.

Must be very old info - WinFS as a separate entity is dead. And Fiji = Vista SP1. There's at least two threads on it that I've seen.