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While Microsoft feeds the world only crumbs from its Windows 8 feast, the public is bound to get a taste of Windows vNext from the company’s partners at Computex, Taipei. Intel, AMD, Nvidia and ARM will all have a strong presence at the conference this week, and all have been working with the Redmond company t... |
31 May 2011
11:30 GMT |
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Imagine this, as the next version of Microsoft’s operating system evolves through the Milestone 3 of the development process and onward to the Beta Build, the world could have been waiting with bated breath for any news of “Interface Manager 8” instead of Windows 8. A tweet yesterday from the Windo... |
31 May 2011
06:14 GMT |
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For a minute there, it appeared like Microsoft had finally settled the whole Windows 8 vs. Windows vNext problem, and opted to use the first as the official moniker for the forthcoming major iteration of the Windows client. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Despite using it internally since early 2009, the Redmond ... |
25 May 2011
08:29 GMT |
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New Windows 8 leaks are to be expected, if rumors circulating on various forums hold any truth (tey usually do). Some testers are in fact waiting with bated breath Windows 8 Build 6.2.7971 to leak into the wild, which hasn’t happened as of yet. I first came across speculation about this new Windows 8 leak a f... |
12 May 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Customers will continue to need security solutions even after the advent of Windows 8, and Microsoft is working with antivirus makers in order to ensure that their products will play nice with the next major iteration of the Windows client. I already told you that the software giant was planning to broaden the Windo... |
9 April 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Windows 8 will bring to the table an overhauled application experience not just for end-users, but also for developers. While details on the upcoming iteration of the Windows client are still being kept under a tight lid in Redmond, some information does manage to find its way in the wild. Case in point: AppX, a ne... |
6 April 2011
04:03 GMT |
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Just a few months ago you barely came across any mentions about Windows 8, the next major iteration of the Windows client, referred to officially by Microsoft as Windows vNext. However, with Windows 8 reportedly approaching the Beta development milestone sometime in the second half of 2011, the volume of information... |
1 April 2011
10:10 GMT |
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There are more ways than one to buy Windows, and as of March 23rd, Microsoft is offering a new option to customers. Windows Intune went live yesterday in 35 countries worldwide, with a 30-day free trial accompanying the general availability milestone. The software giant’s latest Cloud-based offering democrati... |
24 March 2011
04:24 GMT |
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It looks like crumbs from the Windows 8 feast are all that the public will get to nibble on in order to feed their post-Windows 7 hunger. Thankfully, more and more information on Windows vNext has made its way into the wild in the first quarter of 2011, just as the next generation of Windows progressed to the last d... |
14 March 2011
02:10 GMT |
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Don’t expect Windows to remain frozen in time, it simply won’t be the case, at least not according to Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.In a recent experiment, Windows 1.0 was upgraded all the way to Windows 7, from one successive version of the platform to another, proving the comp... |
11 March 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Leaked screenshots reportedly from a Milestone 2 Build of Windows 8 seem to indicate that the Cloud will play a bigger role than it does today for Windows 7. More specifically, the leaked info is focused on Windows Live, with Windows vNext reportedly being capable of enabling users to connect local and Cloud accounts... |
7 March 2011
04:16 GMT |
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Taking a look at the evolution of the Windows client from one major release to the next, it quickly becomes clear that the platform’s graphical user interface is being overhauled with every new version. Windows 8 will make no exception to this rule, with a lot of pressure already on Microsoft to not only revam... |
3 March 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to keep Windows 8 details under a tight lid, and certainly, so far even managed to not have the actual bits of the operating system leaked in the wild. Some information did find its way out of Redmond, and users got a very frugal taste of what the next major iteration of the Windows client will b... |
14 February 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Windows 7’s successor, currently dubbed Windows 8 or Windows vNext will be released to manufacturing in the second half of 2012 and will hit store shelves in early 2013. One trusted source close to the Redmond company revealed that the software giant’s current plans are to ship Windows 8 to customers on ... |
21 January 2011
05:44 GMT |
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The first demonstration of Windows 8 is bound to have been a bittersweet moment for many. Those that remember the first sneak peek at Windows 7, undoubtedly also recall a similar feeling. Back in May 2008, Microsoft demoed the new multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7, giving a taste of the platform’s Natural ... |
7 January 2011
10:56 GMT |
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A Windows PC on every desk and in every house is a motto dwarfed by the new mantra that Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 5th, 2011. How does a copy of Windows on every device sound instead? One Softpedia reader commen... |
7 January 2011
09:14 GMT |
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The next major iteration of Windows made its first appearance yesterday before Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s opening keynote address. The introduction that Windows vNext received at CES 2011 is by no means a coincidence. The Redmond company used the event in order to underline the expansion in terms of platfor... |
6 January 2011
05:27 GMT |
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Microsoft introduced the next version of Windows for the first time ever at the 2011 International Electronics Consumer Show in Las Vegas on January 5th, 2011. It’s important to underline from the get go that neither Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer nor Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows ... |
6 January 2011
03:02 GMT |
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A recent report indicates that Microsoft regards the advent of Windows 8 as the perfect chance for a new push into PC gaming. The Redmond company has yet to offer official confirmation of this, but it’s expected of the software giant to at least overhaul the graphics core of Windows 7’s successor, thus c... |
27 December 2010
10:49 GMT |
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Windows 8 could feature a new graphical user interface codenamed Wind, according to a third-party source. With each new major iteration of Windows, Microsoft has also revamped the graphical user interface of the operating system. Perhaps the most comprehensive overhaul of the GUI happened between Windows Vista and W... |
9 December 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Users running the high end editions of Windows also get the premiere language treatment from Microsoft. The Enterprise and Ultimate SKUs of Windows allow them to access the complete collection of linguistic resources that the Redmond company offers, enabling their OS to be translated in a wide range of languages. Ju... |
27 November 2010
06:57 GMT |
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Microsoft is confirming officially that it’s hard at work on the next iteration of the Windows client, the successor of Windows 7.
For the time being the next major version of the Windows client doesn’t have an official label. The Windows 8 moniker continues to be used largely, including by some Micr... |
22 November 2010
11:15 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is considering the next version of Windows as the riskiest product bet by the Redmond company, according to a Mary-Jo Foley report. Windows 8, or Windows vNext as Microsoft would prefer it, is for the most part a great unknown. In the post-Longhorn/Vista era, the soft... |
22 October 2010
13:21 GMT |
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Even before the advent of Windows 7, Microsoft was hard at work planning the next iterations of the Windows client and server platforms. But even though the successor of Windows 7, commonly referred to, even by Microsoft’s own employees, under the codename Windows 8, was in planning, the Redmond company is not ... |
9 February 2010
10:50 GMT |
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