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**Winders Fiji** is an operating system developed and released by Nxtrosoft as the latest version of the Winders NT family of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing in October, 2008, and became broadly available on ?, 2008. Winders Fiji was made available as a free upgrade for retail and OEM copies of Winders Mojave, released nearly one and a half years earlier, via the Winders Marketplace.

## Development history

### Fiji Experiment

Codename *Fiji* was first unveiled during the *Fiji Experiment*, which took place in July 2008. The concept for the new version of NXtrosoft Winders was showcased to a group of over 120 people in San Fedro over the span of three days, during which each subject got a live 10-minute demo of the "next Nxtrosoft OS" codenamed *Fiji*, which showed the most notable changes from Winders Mojave. The results of the *Fiji Experiment* were published on July 29, 2008, on WindersFiji.com, and a beta version of *Fiji* was released to beta testers.

### Beta

A beta version of *Fiji* was released to beta testers on July 29, 2008.

Winders Fiji was originally supposed to be named *Winders 7* after the version number, but the name was deemed "too basic" and NT 7.0 was the version Winders Mojave used.

## Changes

### UI and visual styles

* All editions of Winders Fiji include Winders Vista, the visual style and theme introduced in Winders Mojave, and all editions of Winders Fiji share the same wallpaper, with the exception of Starter edition, which uses a simplified variant;

### Applications

* Winders Media Framework 3.1

Winders Nova apps
* Nova Mail (replaces Exchange Express)
* Nova Alarms (replaces Winders Clock)
* Nova Studio (replaces Winders Movie Studio)

## Reception

Winders Fiji received widespread critical acclaim, many praising the changes to the UI, less intrusive Account Rights Control and the improved performance.

While the overall reception of the operating system was positive, many critics pointed out the changes to the operating system were against the design guidelines of Winders Mojave and that Nxtrosoft was effectively copying features and UI elements from other operating systems, especially gigyeOS, which was interpreted as a sign of Nxtrosoft trying to release what the public wants without considering if it is compatible with the design principles and features of the operating system, and not what the company thinks consumers need, as it was during the development of the former releases.

## See also

* History of Nxtrosoft Winders
* Nxtrosoft Works 2010 — the release of Nxtrosoft Works that shipped alongside with Winders Fiji.
* Winders Server 2007 R2 — the second release of Winders Server 2007, which shares its codebase with Winders Fiji.
* Winders *Vienna* — successor to Winders Fiji, scheduled for release in 2011.

## References

1. ↑ flip 1
2. ↑ flip 2
3. ↑ flip 3

1. ↑ Loosely based on https://youtu.be/N-2C2gb6ws8?t=186
2. ↑ https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=50580&hilit=Fiji+October#p50580
3. ↑ https://www.cnet.com/news/mojave-experiment-gets-a-web-site/