Happy New Year 2007
Happy New Year to all of you. Here are some technology that I look forward to in 2007:
Windows Vista — On 30th January 2007, Windows Vista will be released for general public. I tested Windows Vista while the operating system was still in beta and release candidate. I don’t think my small business customers will be upgrading to Windows Vista anytime soon but I will buy Windows Vista (probably the Ultimate Edition).
Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) — A new major version of Mac OS X, dubbed Leopard, is expected to be released this year. Mac OS X Leopard will include some new exciting features. I’m also interested to try Mac OS X Server, which I wrote about a few months ago.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 — Adobe Creative Suite software are also expected to be released this year. This version of Adobe Creative Suite are Universal Binary which would provide performance benefit for Intel Mac users. Photoshop CS3 Beta is currently available for download at Adobe Labs.
Microsoft Office for Mac (Universal Binary) — I have been using my Windows PC to work on office documents because I don’t want to purchase an Office 2004 license which doesn’t work very fast on Intel Mac (because it’s not universal binary yet).
I hope Microsoft won’t delay releasing Universal Binary version of Microsoft Office. This version of Microsoft Office should also support the Microsoft Office Open XML. Microsoft Office Open XML is a new default file format produced by Microsoft Office 2007.
Parallels Beta 3 — The Parallels team released a new beta version of Parallels Beta for Mac with a new feature called Transporter. Transporter is a powerful tool that helps you: Migrate your existing Windows PC to a Parallels Virtual Machine and Convert VMware and Virtual PC virtual hard disks to Parallels virtual machines.
Linux Kernel 2.6.20 — According to an article on linux.inet.hr, the upcoming 2.6.20 Linux kernel is bringing a nice virtualization framework for all virtualization fans out there. It’s called KVM, short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Read more about it: Finally user-friendly virtualization for Linux.
Feel free to share some technologies that you look forward to in 2007. Once again, I hope you all have a wonderful and prosperous new year.
1. Oskar Syahbana 1 Jan 2007
Vista — Won’t buy it Leopard — definitely buy the original. It’s worth more than Microsoft’s new operating system Adobe CS3 — not a designer so the “slowness” of CS2 on my macintel machine is still bearable. However, an added speed might be a plus and I might get the new one for this :) New Office for Mac — probably not my cup of tea and will stick to Office 2004. They dropped support or vba!
2. Frank 7 Jan 2007
I still believe that Windows 2000 is the most stable OS. It has almost everything for a normal PC user.
3. David Dunsterville 25 Feb 2007
Any major release like Vista is going to come into trouble once the masses have their hands on it. Some of our customers want it, but personally i’ll be waiting until at least the first SP.
4. milisdad 2 Mar 2007
I still use Ubuntu :0