14 DAY TRIAL // Yes, the Windows client is evolving (could it be any other way?), and a recently leaked Windows 8 screenshot seems to be offering a glimpse of one change introduced since Windows 7 was released. As it’s heading toward Milestone 3, Windows 8 becomes available for testing to more and more early adopters.
Illustrative of this is the fact that leaked information and screenshots of Windows 7’s successor have started to increase in numbers, although one can hardly speak of a real volume of insights into the development of Windows vNext.
The latest leak, a screenshot provided by Zukona, reveals that Windows Update will be modified to deliver an enhanced experience.
As you can see in the image included below, users get a new option “Restart if required” to go along with the deployment of refreshes via WU.
The change it’s not all that consistent, and having been featured in Windows 8 already represents little guarantee that it will make it in the Beta development milestone, or beyond that.
As far as I’m concerned, the screenshot is relevant not because of the new WU option, but because it somewhat confirms that Microsoft is going through similar steps with the development process of Windows 8 as it did with Windows 7.
Some Softpedia readers might remember that the leaked information, screenshots and videos of Windows 7 Milestone 1, M2 and M3 showed an operating system that was extremely Windows Vista-like.
Well, this screenshot of Windows 8, presumably from the M2 stage, confirms that there are little Windows vNext details baked in at this point in time.
In fact, with ignore the new option, and you won’t be able to tell the difference between Windows 7 WU and Windows 8 WU.
I don’t expect Windows 8 to actually become Windows 8 until the Beta Build, which is expected to be signed off and delivered to testers and the public in the second half of 2011.
