Moazam’s Blog

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.