As Microsoft is wrapping up Windows 7, with the release to manufacturing deadline just around the corner and the general availability deadline set for October 22, the company is also looking forward to the next version of Windows. In this context, the software giant already confirmed officially that planning for Windows 8 had started long before Windows 7 was even close to Release Candidate stage. At the same time, Microsoft has also started hiring people to work on specific future features that will end up in Windows 8.
Still, don't expect the Redmond company to come out with details just yet. But there is some talk of where Windows is heading. Following the release of Windows Vista, questions and speculation began to circulate on whether the successor of Windows XP was the last mammoth Windows release that Microsoft would produce. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer denied the possibility, and Windows 7 proves that it wasn't the case. Windows 8 will not stray far from the client-side operating system concept that Microsoft has been executing with each release.
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, managed to offer confirmation of this to BBC. Asked whether Windows 7 would be the last dedicated version of Windows that Microsoft would release, Ozzie replied “No, by no means.”
“Windows 7 is a tremendously exciting release. It has many innovations in the real of Natural User Interfaces and other such things. Computers will always need an operating system. Something that makes it very friendly for users to use. The nature of the operating system is indeed changing because of the ubiquity and utility of the Internet. The operating system is increasingly connected to those activities that happen on the Internet. Windows plus Windows Live deliver that within Windows 7 and that kind of integration of experience just gets better and better over time.”
At the same time, the man who replaced Bill Gates at the lead of Microsoft along with Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer, doesn't see a prevalence of Cloud platforms over client-side operating system. “You'll see the combination of desktop-based, phone-based and TV-based systems that are all connected to the net. We don't do everything that we do in a browser. When we have phones we carry those phones with us and we do activities on those. PCs have very useful things that we do on the PC, just tremendous experiences. Same with the television. We have yet to see even the beginnings of the kind of innovation that we're going to have when every television itself becomes a computer that's connected to the Internet.”
what is wrong with these guys. we get 2 years out of vista after they finally fix the bugs in xp and now that that 7 is out they already were working on another windows version. sounds like a scam to me.
Comment #2.1 by: macumba on 17 Sep 2010, 08:25 GMT
yeah, marketing policy again...
Comment #2.2 by: Eddy on 13 Mar 2011, 05:57 GMT
True...
Comment #3 by: Thinking about switch to Mac on 31 Mar 2010, 05:24 UTC
Start by fixing Windows Media Player 12, it sucks!!!!!!!!!! Windows 11 was the only thing working like a charm on Windows Vista and they had to change it!! Stick to the things that work and try to fix the things that don't. Here's my advice to you Microsoft it's not complicated.
hm...what about the next windows, Microsoft add multiple desktop..4 will be enough, then also giving windows with anti-virus. media player should can be update to read .flv, .rm and other codec, theme for media player also should be include. lastly i hope windows movie can be included...instead windows dvd maker...TQ
Comment #5 by: TheDarkNinja on 28 Jun 2010, 23:09 UTC
Microsoft can come out with as many OSs as they like. Ubuntu will always be my main OS. No startup services, very few viruses, attention to visual detail, and multi-desktop are my main faves in Ubuntu. Microsoft comes out with an OS that does all that and more, I'll make the switch to Windows. Until then, I'll stay with Ubuntu, thanx.
Comment #5.1 by: guy22 on 26 Aug 2010, 14:56 GMT
Ubuntu would be my main game too, if only they would have a decent alternative to dreamweaver and photoshop (not gimp lol), and allow me to run the windows games i enjoy.
Comment #8.1 by: pinoy ubuntu on 10 Mar 2011, 03:40 GMT
Im waiting for windows 13. maybe by that time, microsoft would realize that although their os works it is only 50 percent of what they can offer. half bake goods for my money? naaaahhh. i just wish ubuntu was started in the 80s
microsoft has a really bad track record of creating a great OS(win 95/98), then following it with a the worst OS ever(anyone remember windows Millennium Edition, then putting out another great OS (xp with sp2), followed by another retardedly buggy OS(vista) followed by their best yet (windows 7). if you look at this pattern, it should be apparent to everyone in the world that windows 8 will do nothing but crash, have support issues, have legacy hardware issues, have driver issues, software compatibility issues, and i bet it will not even come in a 32 bit version and take a min of 4 gb ram and a 1 tb hard drive to function at a decent speed
Comment #11 by: vistaseven on 05 Sep 2011, 08:30 UTC
Comment #11.1 by: Bill(as in how much) and Frank (as in how much truth is there) on 20 Oct 2011, 09:40 GMT
There are way too many problems with 7, as with Vista, et al. We need a sytem that will eliminate common problems with computing ALTOGETHER. WHY, WHY are there so many cables that change all the time? Why cannot there be a simpler solution to drivers? I cannot find one online to save my life.
It's all about the money -- turns everything to * , no? We (USA) will not put out a product that works -- pay out the * though, and you have your solution. We love to have a product become obsolute within weeks. Go out and buy a product -- a week later it's outdted. Then you have to learn the technolology all over again. Keep america busy trying to figure out how to figure out how to make things work -- now that's a chalanage!!
I just switched from windows XP to windows 7, but I found that windows 7 search option is very very difficult compare to windows XP. I so wish that Microsoft can keep the same file or document search as it was in windows XP. With windows 7, to search for files in my internal drive or external is a real hassle that I had to swtiched back to windows XP.
I still prefer the old XP search, and Microsoft outlook Express for mail otherwise, rest are fine. I do not prefer a mac because I feel the operating system is more difficult to go around with, but if Microsoft is changing the old easy features I think they will push their users for a mac instead. We use windows for the easiness now even a beginner can get so much difficulty to catch up compare to XP.
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