Windows 8 to arrive in 2012
By Nicole Kobie,
Windows 8 is set to arrive in 2012, according to roadmap documents unveiled last week at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference.
Website Microsoft Kitchen had slides showing the Redmond giant's plans for the next release, with the next operating system - cleverly codenamed Windows 8 - set to arrive in about 2012. The next version of Windows Server should arrive then, too.
The time frame is in keeping with previous release cycles, with Vista released to businesses in 2006.
Windows 7 has won glowing reviews and seen record sales since its launch last month, according to Microsoft.
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Money Grabbing
This is getting ridiculous. Unless they have some amazing new way of doing something, Microsoft should allow at least 5 years between new operating systems and spend more time ensuring that when it is released, there will be no problems for users and that they have closed all loopholes.
By Birdmaniw on Tuesday Nov 24
Oldies are Goodies?
It's not just the amount you pay to Microsoft that's the problem with accelerated updates, but the fact that half your old, trusted software, then fails to work - assuming that the hardware can cope with Windows 8. Sitting next to me as I type is my Windows 98 machine, which occasionally gets fired up in order to run a favoured application that no longer works under Windows XP. I invested hundreds of man-hours into writing that application; I resent Microsoft trashing all that effort. Of course it worked even better under Windows 3.1, but that machine really is history now...
By Petrolmaps on Tuesday Nov 24
Upgrades
Isn't it funny that software assurance lasts 3 years yet release dates for the next version take just over three years after slipages on release date have been taken into consideration! have you been caught out by this?
By GaryF on Wednesday Nov 25