After Microsoft launched Windows Vista, the company revealed that the next major operating system is on two and a half years, an expected release date of late 2009. Ben Fathi, the executive in charge of the OS's core components, made it clear that he was referring to a whole new OS - known to have the codename "Vienna" - and not the upcoming Vista service pack, codenamed "Fiji".
In response to the question of what Vienna's killer feature will be, he said "I don't know what it is" and then proceeded to suggest that full virtualization and a radical new user interface will be the aim. Now all we've got to do is wait and see.
