Last year I wrote an article titled “After Windows 7: What Microsoft Should Do” and gave my opinions of what Microsoft might have up their sleeve for the version coming after Windows 7’s release later this year. Here’s a slight update to those predictions.
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After Windows 7: Update
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Karmic Koala Blueprints
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This week marks the real start to the development cycle for Ubuntu’s 9.10 release called Karmic Koala. The Ubuntu Developer’s Summit is being held in Barcelona this year, and is now in full swing. A lot of interesting blueprints have been uploaded to Canonical’s Launchpad service. Let’s see what kind of topics the Ubuntu folks are discussing for this release.
Recently there has been some buzz as to what Microsoft has up their sleeves for Windows 7, the next version of Windows after the somewhat botched Vista release. Some of the features seem to be mostly evolutionary from those of Vista. Most of the features, though, have yet to be announced. So, what should Microsoft focus on after they get Windows 7 out the door?
64-bit Linux, is it time?
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Recently there hasn’t been much talk about 64-bit Linux on the desktop. Most technical articles have been dated sporadically since the release of the Athlon64/Opteron CPUs in 2003. And while Linux was one of the first operating systems to take full advantage of the AMD64 and later EM64T extensions to the x86 architecture, no one has really truly adopted them for standard use because of some technology still being 32-bit only.
