Nu Steve Ballmer Bill Gates' plaats als CEO van Microsoft heeft overgenomen heeft hij aangekondigd het een en ander te gaan veranderen aan Windows. PC World schreef er een artikeltje over. (Thanks wildhagen voor de tip).
As Bill Gates steps down as Microsoft's chief executive officer and dons a new hat as its chief software architect (while still remaining chair), he'll help carry out the new vision of Windows touted by Steve Ballmer, now CEO as well as president.Ballmer promises a new user interface, a new file system, and a natural-language capability in the Next Generation Windows Services. The technology builds on the current Windows operating system, but Microsoft officials describe it as a drastic change equivalent to Windows' effect on the text-based DOS world of 1985, when the graphical operating system first shipped.
Microsoft plans to host NGWS on the Internet and integrate it with upcoming versions of Windows CE, SQL Server, Windows 2000, and Windows 2000 Server.
"We need to deliver a breakthrough version of Windows and actually host it on the Internet," Ballmer says. Besides jiving with Microsoft's recent interest in application software providers that host Web applications, the company is continuing its "Windows everywhere" philosophy with NGWS.
We need to make the [operating system] more reliable and scalable," Ballmer says. "The PC will be the most powerful devices, but so will the phone, and pocket PC."
Al deze niewe features zullen in een nieuw universeel service platform worden geïntegreerd, dat dus Next Generation Windows Services gaat heten (NGWS). Voor meer info, fiets ook even langs The Register.
