Vista may not be out yet, but Microsoft is already talking about what will
replace its upcoming operating system.
Speaking to The Venture Forum conference, Bryan Barnett, a manager for
external research programmes in the Microsoft Research group, said that one of
the areas being looked at was how to better use multicore processors.
He said that it was important to take full advantage of the processing power
that those multicore architectures potentially make available. This requires
operating systems and development tools that don't exist today.
While Vista does run on multicore processors, it is not fully optimised for
them, he admitted.
But Barnett said there is no timetable for Vista’s successor right now.
Early work includes five or six projects being undertaken in the company’s
labs. He said that finding a replacement for Vista was going to be incredibly
hard work, despite the resources at Microsoft’s disposal.
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