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Microsoft already working on Windows 8
by Brad Linder Apr 21st 2009 at 3:00PM
Microsoft hasn't finished tinkering with Windows 7 yet, but the operating system should be released to manufacturers and the public later this year or early next year. So what's next? Windows 8, of course, although odds are Microsoft will come up with yet another naming convention by the time it's launched, so that probably won't be its name.The company has posted several job listings for developers to help with work on Windows 8. So while it's awfully early for anyone to say much of anything about the next, next generation Windows operating system. But it looks like one thing Microsoft is working on is an improved version of its DFSR file system service, which stands for Distributed File System Replication. This service is focused on keeping files and folders synchronized across multiple servers and it will likely show up in Windows 8 and Windows 8 Server.
Windows 8 is scheduled for release in 2011 or 2012.
[via ZDNet]
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Jash Sayani said 3:13PM on 4-21-2009
Thats insane!! They should first concentrate on completing 1 OS at a time. Only afetr Windows 7 is released and maybe a Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 is out, they can think of Windows 8.
If M$ makes blunders like this, Windows will be washed away once and for all.....
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Nick said 3:58PM on 4-21-2009
I am so glad you do not make software. Honestly, go read up on how software development works and how development resources are distributed across projects. If Windows 8 was not in the planning stages prior to the release of Windows 7, that's when you should be concerned about Microsoft making "blunders".
Do you think Windows 7 started development after the release of Vista SP1?
TruthBringer said 5:15PM on 4-21-2009
@Jash, software companies work on multiple versions at once.
@Nick, thank you for correcting him
KineticOnline said 5:16PM on 4-21-2009
I can almost guarentee that not only is someone at microsoft working on windows 8 or whatever they end up calling it, they will also have someone thinking about the version after that. Its always been like that and allways will be
Jash Sayani said 8:04AM on 4-22-2009
@Nick: Thanks for letting me know. I did not know that planning is done so much in advance.
And by the way, I do develop softwares: http://jashsayani.com/my-softwares/
Its maybe, I develop software individually and can't work on multiple projects at once. But MS is huge... So, yeah they have the resources....
Doniyor said 3:38PM on 4-21-2009
This is done in order to finish them faster... If they will start when they will finsih Seven there will be rushing... for Windows 8.. so they want to keep up and release updates. Also Windows 7 is almost done so it doesn't beed as much concetration..
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jerrie_xyooj011 said 3:46PM on 4-21-2009
Windows 8 = Windows Vista
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TruthBringer said 5:15PM on 4-21-2009
Unlike you, I am not an idiot.
Windows Vista works and is amazing. 7 will only get better. 8 will be even better. Stop being a doushbag and leave, now.
Iocane said 5:19PM on 4-21-2009
Either you are VERY confused or you're making a judgment on an OS that's in the PLANNING STAGE. Besides, I'm using Vista on a relatively high powered machine and I like it - it just gets a bad rap because it had problems with older hardware.
KeegdnaB said 5:45PM on 4-21-2009
If Windows 8 comes out in 2011-2012 then Microsoft will have finally gotten back to the consistent release cycle they had pre-XP. If Vista had come out when it was originally supposed to, 7 might already be a distant memory. Honestly, this is half the reason people are such zealots about clinging to XP forever and ever, because it should have been outdated by 2004 but wasn't, and everyone got stuck in their ways.
2-3 years is NORMAL, 6 years is NOT. Hell, 2000/ME were only out a year before XP came around (point to consider 2000:XP :: Vista:7)
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Eldiablo said 7:38PM on 4-21-2009
I'm expecting Win8 to be more of a portal into the MS Cloud and significantly less development on the 'Desktop' elements. Perhaps much more Redmonds version of Google Gears or Adobe Air et al.
I bet someone in Microsoft wishes that the Xbox would kill off Desktop gaming altogether making it easier to balance internet cloud devices without the costs of having to code to support super powerful hardware. Unless of course Direct X 12 will support remote rendering running over MSTSC :)
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RUGRLN said 8:04AM on 4-22-2009
What was all the chatter b4 about Windows7 being the last of Windows, and Azure being the next big thing with cloud computing and all..
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bigsofty said 6:02PM on 4-22-2009
O.S. runs programs, how many times can they bring out a product that does the same thing... jeeze! Also, I've never seen so many MS fanboys as on this site, any here work for Bill? hello?
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PS said 6:46PM on 5-11-2009
@bigsofty
Why don't you redirect that question to other OSes: OS X, Ubuntu, Fedora? Heck I can't even catch up with the new versions of fedora. While you're doing that, also ask why people continue to make newer versions of software.
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riycou h said 1:27PM on 5-28-2009
ok well if you look closely it is a snap shot of windows 7 ha trying to pull a fast one (ps im the loop and windows 8 is going to be much better for office use not personal) windows 9 is going to be a complication of all the windows except for me/2000
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Joseph said 8:43AM on 6-20-2009
Just get a mac, for goodness sake. Snow Leopard is coming out soon
Oh yeah, that screenshot is actually Windows 7 by the way because it says
"The Windows 7 Operating System is copyright..."
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