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This is the OFFICIAL Windows Vienna & Windows Aqua archive.org page.

My custom Windows Vista themes are pre-loaded with custom wallpapers, pictures, icons, sounds, media center, gadgets, and shell!

The themes I have on here are Windows Vienna & Windows Aqua. Windows Earth, Uranus and Scenic have been scrapped but their ISOs can be found elsewhere on this site. However, the latest ISOs of Windows Vienna and Windows Aqua will be found here. 

System requirements & guidance for Windows Vienna & Windows Aqua.

If you want to install Windows Vienna, or Windows Aqua on hardware, please follow these steps:

Following these steps, you should be able to have a more reliable installation experience. 

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Windows Vista doesn’t get the same degree of love as other versions of Microsoft’s operating system. People have an enduring fondness for Windows XP and Windows 7, but not so much for Vista. Part of the problem is although Vista had much to recommend it, the OS always felt unfinished.

If you’re one of those people who actually loved Vista and miss it, then Windows Vienna is for you. After nearly five years of development, the new OS has been completed and is ready to download and install — for free.

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Windows Vienna isn’t an official Microsoft product, but rather a third-party Windows Vista mod with an alternate visual style and shell. It comes with new wallpapers, icons, sample media, gadgets and more. It is a standalone OS, so you don’t need Vista installed to run it.

The required PC specs for Windows Vienna are basically the same as for Windows Vista:

• Processor — Intel Xeon E31275 @3.40GHz
• RAM — 12GB DDR3 (HyperX)
• HDD — WD Gold 2TB HDD 7200RPM
• SSD — Netac 128GB SSD
• GPU — Geforce GTX 980TI MSI Twin Frozr
• PSU — EVGA 600w Power Supply
• Monitor — HP La2306x 1920 x 1080
• Mouse — Corsair Harpoon
• Keyboard — Havit RGB Backlit Keyboard
• OS — Windows 11 Professional
• Motherboard — ASUS P8H61-MX

You can watch the OS in action in the video below, and the full operating system can be downloaded from here (it clocks in at around 4.6GB).

The truth is you probably wouldn’t want to use Vienna as your daily operating system, but it is worth installing it in a virtualized environment using the likes of VirtualBox.

This will likely be the final version of Windows Vienna as the developer feels he’s come to the end of the road here, but there’s always the possibility an update might be released in the future.

Let me know what you think of Windows Vienna in the comments below. Is it something you’d be interested in installing?

О: Да. Следующая клиентская версия Windows изначально носила кодовое имя «Blackcomb», но затем, в начале 2006 года была переименована в «Windows Vienna» и совсем недавно в»“Windows Seven» или «Windows 7». Лично мне Vienna нравится больше, поэтому я продолжу называть ее так.

В: Почему Windows 7?

О: В свете того, что Windows Vista это Windows 6.0, Vienna, вероятно, будет версией 7.0.

В: Я слышал, что Windows Vista будет последним крупным релизом ОС от Microsoft. Это правда?

О: Нет. Windows продолжит быть центром концепции «цифровой жизни», к тому же некоторые представители Microsoft совсем недавно заявили, что есть множество областей, в которых Microsoft может улучшить Windows. Среди них, например, распознавание голоса и хранение данных.

В: Итак, Vienna будет следующей крупной версией Windows?

О: Нет. Windows Vista была крупным релизом, а Vienna будет намного меньшим, промежуточным обновлением. Microsoft сейчас ведет политику, при которой крупный релиз Windows появляется через один.

В: Когда Vienna выйдет?

О: Microsoft планирует выпустить Vienna в 2009 году, примерно через два или два с половиной года после Windows Vista. Следующий крупный релиз Windows запланирован на 2011 года. (Windows Server будет выходить примерно так же).

В: Какие новые возможности будут включены в Windows Vienna?

О: Microsoft публично ничего не говорила о каких-либо возможностях Vienna, возможно потому, что компания все еще решает, чем же будет следующий релиз Windows. Но мы знаем несколько вещей о Vienna: она будет включать в себя новую версию Windows Explorer, разработанную той же командой, что и новый «ленточный» интерфейс в Office 2007. В ней, похоже, будут некоторые новые средства виртуализации, которые скоро выйдут в составе Windows Server «Longhorn». Также не исключено, что в ее составе появится WinFS (Windows Future Storage), хотя вероятно уже под другим названием.

В: Будет ли Vienna доступна в обоих, 32-битной и 64-битной версиях, как Windows Vista?

О: Нет, Vienna будет только 64-битной. Это созвучно с планом Microsoft по переходу на платформу х64.

В: Будут ли обновленные версии Windows перед Vienna?

О: Да, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1, codename «Fiji») выйдет одновременно с Windows Server «Longhorn» 2007 и включит в себя новую версию ядра, вероятно схожего с ядром «Longhorn». Поэтому можно смело заявлять, что Fiji станет крупнейшим сервис-паком в истории: еще ни один сервис пак не включал в себя обновление ядра.

Источник: thevista.ru
Перевод: Vista-Guy

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Windows «Vienna» (formerly known as Blackcomb)

is a

codename for a future version of

Microsoft Windows, originally announced in February 2000,

but has since been subject to major delays and rescheduling.

Microsoft now announced it will be released in 2009, and

according to a magazine called «Smart Computing In Plain

English», work on it began right after

Windows Vista came out. As of

February 2007, the name of the operating system used

internally is undisclosed and is not used publicly by

Microsoft,^[1]

though «Windows 7» has been noted in job postings as a working

name for the project.^[2]

Microsoft has refrained from discussing the details about

«Vienna» publicly as they focus on the release and marketing of

Windows Vista,^[3]

though some early details of various core operating system

features have emerged at developer conferences such as

Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in 2006.

Development

The

code name «Blackcomb» was originally assigned to Windows NT

6, an operating system that was planned to follow

Windows XP (codenamed «Whistler;» both named after the

Whistler-Blackcomb resort). Blackcomb would be the successor

to both the desktop/workstation-oriented

Windows XP (Windows NT 5.1) and the server-oriented

Windows Server 2003 (Windows NT 5.2). In late 2001 the

release of Blackcomb was being scheduled for 2005 and in August

it was announced that a minor intermediate release,

Vista (codenamed «Longhorn» after a bar in the Whistler

Blackcomb Resort), would ship in 2002 to update the Windows NT

5.x line. Over the following years Longhorn morphed in fits,

starts, and delays to incorporate many of the features promised

for Blackcomb and was eventually designated as Windows NT 6. The

status of the operating system dubbed «Blackcomb,» however, was

shrouded in confusion with some reports suggesting that plans

for Blackcomb were scrapped while others claiming that it would

be the monicker for a server-only Windows 6.x release. More

likely, the codename «Blackcomb» was discarded as no longer

being in the spirit of its original intent (i.e., to describe

Windows NT 6). At the present, it is believed that

Windows Vista’s successor (referred to here as Windows

«Vienna») is being planned as both a client and server release

with a current release estimate of late

2009,^[1]

although no firm date or year has yet been publicized. A recent

article provided from Yahoo!News projected the release date to

be closer to 2009.^[4]

Focus

At first, internal sources pitched Blackcomb as being not

just a major revision of Windows, but a complete departure from

the way users today typically think about

interacting with a computer. For instance, the «Start»

philosophy, introduced in

Windows 95, may be replaced by the «new interface» which was

said in 1999 to be scheduled for «Vienna» (before being moved to

Vista («Longhorn») and then back again to «Vienna»). While

Windows Vista was intended to be an evolutionary release, Vienna

was targeted directly at revolutionizing the way users of the

product interact with their PCs. However, the situation has now

changed. Windows Vista, which was expected to be a minor release

became a major release, when it was released five years after

the release of

Windows XP. Windows «Vienna» will become a minor release,

and is currently planned to be released two years after

Windows Vista.

On

February 9,

2007,

Microsoft’s Ben Fathi claimed that the focus on the operating

system was still being worked out, and could merely hint at some

possibilities:^[1]

«We’re going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling

technology. Maybe it’s

hypervisors, I don’t know what it is» […] «Maybe it’s

a new

user interface paradigm for consumers.»

�Ben Fathi, Windows

Core Operating System Division Vice President

Bill Gates, in an interview with Newsweek, also suggested

that the next version of Windows would «be more user-centric.»^[5]

When asked to clarify what he meant, Gates said:

«That means that right now when you move from one PC to

another, you’ve got to install apps on each one, do upgrades

on each one. Moving information between them is very

painful. We can use

Live Services to know what you’re interested in. So even

if you drop by a [public] kiosk or somebody else’s PC, we

can bring down your home page, your files, your fonts, your

favorites and those things. So that’s kind of the

user-centric thing that Live Services can enable. [Also,] in

Vista things got a lot better with [digital] ink and speech

but by the next release there will be a much bigger bet.

Students won’t need textbooks, they can just use these

tablet devices. Parallel computing is pretty important for

the next release. We’ll make it so that a lot of the

high-level graphics will be just built into the operating

system. So we’ve got a pretty good outline.»

Other features

This article or section does not adequately cite its

references or sources.

Please help

This article has been tagged since February 2007.

Several other features originally planned for Windows Vista

may be part of «Vienna», depending on when they are finished.

«Vienna» will also feature the

sandboxed approach discussed during the Alpha/White Box

development phase for Longhorn. All non-managed code will run in

a sandboxed environment where access to the «outside world» is

restricted by the operating system. Access to

raw sockets will be disabled from within the sandbox, as

will direct access to the

file system,

hardware abstraction layer (HAL), and complete memory

addressing.^[citation

needed] All access to outside applications,

files, and protocols will be regulated by the operating system,

and any malicious activity will be (theoretically) halted

immediately.^[citation

needed] If this approach is successful, it

bodes very well for security and safety, as it is virtually

impossible for a malicious application to cause any damage to

the system if it is locked inside a metaphorical ‘glass box.’ As

well, this sand boxed environment will be able to adapt itself

to the code base it was written for. This will alleviate most

problems that arise from back compatibility when a new operating

system is made.

Another feature mentioned by Bill Gates is «a pervasive

typing line that will recognize the sentence that [the user is]

typing in.» The implications of this could be as simple as a

«complete as you type» function as found in most modern search

engines, (e.g.

Google Suggest) or as complex as being able to give verbal

commands to the PC without any concern for syntax.^[6]

The former has been incorporated to an extent in Windows Vista.

Backward compatibility

Microsoft has stated that «Vienna» will be available in both

32-bit and

64-bit for the client version, in order to ease the

industry’s transition from 32-bit to 64-bit computing. Vienna

Server is expected to support only 64-bit server systems. There

will be continued backward compatibility with 32-bit

applications, but 16-bit

Windows and

MS-DOS applications will not be supported, as has been the

case since the 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server

2003. However,

Paul Thurrott claims in his Supersite for Windows, that

according to Microsoft’s x64 migration schedule, Windows Vienna

will almost certainly only ship in 64-bit editions.^[7]

References

External links

• Windows 7 News — Unofficial Windows 7 News Resource

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