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The Road to Windows Vista 2005
On the WinSuperSite of Paul Thurrot you can find an updated article containing the road to Windows Vista 2005:The feature set for Windows Vista has been in flux for some time. Here's why: Back in 2003, the plans for Windows Vista were quite ambitious, but when the core Windows team attempted to finally componentized Vista, then based on the XP SP2 code base, they found the task to be impossible and had to start over from scratch. That work commenced in mid-2004 and was finished near the end of 2004. By that time, Windows Vista was veering wildly off course, and Microsoft worked to reign in the project and delay any technologies that were too far-reaching.
By early 2005, the goal for Windows Vista was simple: Microsoft had a very limited set of technologies that would absolutely make it into the product and a very broad list of technologies that could possibly make it, depending on how development of those individual technologies proceeded. For Beta 1, finally released in July 2005, we're only seeing the core, fundamental pieces of Windows Vista. In future releases, we'll see more end user functionality. But you might also think of this functionality as being part of that broad list of possible features. Much of it is still in flux.
Anyway. Here we are in August 2005, a month before PDC 2005. Microsoft has a lot of marketing baloney out there about "clarity" and "confidence." That's cute, but what we really want to know is: What features will be included in Windows Vista? Here's what we know. (continue at source)