Rumor: Windows 8 Set for September Reveal
The Windows 8 talk has really been heating up over the last week or so and today brings speculation about a possible release date for the OS.
It’s been 18 months since Microsoft’s Windows 7 hit retailers’ shelves and if the latest reports are to be believed, the beta of the next version Windows will arrive in six month’s time. Microsoft has announced that the company’s annual Professional Developers Conference will kick off September 13 and run through to September 16.
Considering Microsoft debuted the first public beta of Windows 7 at PDC 2008, Business Insider is leading the way in speculating that PDC 2011 will include a demo of the first public beta of Windows 8.
If we’re to follow Microsoft’s Windows 7 release schedule, the PDC 2011 public beta of Windows 8 will give way to a fall 2012 shipping date for the completed version of the operating system.
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I have a feeling that Win 7 will be the new XP when Win 8 hits...Vista anyone
They will have to pull XP from my cold dead hands......
from all the info i seen on windows 8 sounds like more of an update like windows 2000 to XP. never had any issues with vista. i'll skip this OS
People are not going to upgrade to Win8 with Win7 being so perfect unless they add tons of new and great features. From what I have seen here about Win8 and it's bubbles UI they need to scrap that and start over.
If all of the rumors are true, Win8 may well be an early flop... Sorry, but I don't see people jumping on the "cloud computing" bandwagon all too quickly given the lack of security.
As soon as I heard about the ribbons for everything in Windows 8, that was all I needed to know I don't want it.
I think this is a marketing strategy. They know how people clung to XP when Vista was released and they are trying to market Win7 with the release of Win8. Using what hurt them before to their advantage.=)
Wonder what the internal version number is going to be.
Vista was 6, 7 was 6.1.
Is Windows 8 going to be 6.2, 7 or 8 ?
I think MS needs to stop rushing Windows 8, I think 7 is pretty nice.
YAWN!!
Windows 8 from the leaked shots appears to be just a greater build/addon to windows 7, vista was so shockingly bad partly since it was built on a new kernel etc. To me, 8 seems like win7 sp2, just a few more features and slight changes to the OS. Could be wrong (kinda hope i am since its a new OS rather than a SP).
Will get a copy from MSDN and try it out, quite happy with win7 at the moment, cant see me needing to upgrade apart from a couple of niceties.
They will have to pull XP from my cold dead hands......
lol
People are not going to upgrade to Win8 with Win7 being so perfect unless they add tons of new and great features.
They've been leaving the traditional desktop pc focus and aiming for Cloud computing and portable devices, so I dont think the next OS will really be a major improvement on perfomance and stability as Win7 is.
Besides, the new office-like explorer interface sucks....
Win8 is looking more like a Vista debacle.
Maybe it's not really an upgrade but an OS optimized for niche machines - tablets and ultraportables.
They will have to pull XP from my cold dead hands......
+1
I think MS needs to stop rushing Windows 8, I think 7 is pretty nice.
MS has been playing Apple for a while now. They want you to buy a new PC every year as your not-so-old PC isn't qualified to run their latest, fastest, most stable, most secure and most exciting OS.
im still happy with xp. the only thing its missing for me is dx11. was gonna go to 7 later in the year, but ill give this beta a shot first maybe, just to see how it pans out.
I think their rushing it a bit. Win7 has the potential to be like XP, a durable long lasting solid OS. Im not making the move, since Im pretty darn happy with Win7. Especially with the success of Win7.
what!? already? im happy with 7 so its going to take ALOT to make me change
To all you XP purists: Go suck a 32-bit lemon, and come back when you're ready to join the big leagues.
I think it should cost 30 bucks for an upgrade version (40 bucks is the maximum I would pay, and $80-$100 for a new copy.). Students should get it free through The Ultimate Steal.
Also, there should be one and only one version- just "Windows 8" with all the features of Ultimate. None of this "Home Premium (since it's all but premium), Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate" segmentation. Just "Windows 8".
And, it's going to be Windows 6.2.over7601.
I think MS needs to stop rushing Windows 8, I think 7 is pretty nice.
I agree. Windows 7 will be great for years. 7 is the new XP and I loved XP and still do.
They will have to pull XP from my cold dead hands......
and no doubt you're 1ghz PC with 512MB of ram too
Maybe it's not really an upgrade but an OS optimized for niche machines - tablets and ultraportables.
My feelings as well. Also I do sense another Vista debacle here. M$ won't give anything in this release that will make me want to upgrade.
If rumors are true, 8 alreay flopped. I dont want a phone OS on my desktop.
Maybe it's not really an upgrade but an OS optimized for niche machines - tablets and ultraportables.
Yes, because that's what tablets and ultraportables need: an OS that hogs system resources.
MS has had a nightmare of a time slimming down their operating systems. Suddenly aiming for that portable market seems like a hell of a longshot to me.
"MS has had a nightmare of a time slimming down their operating systems"
One of the things they've been working on with Win7 and now Win8 is breaking up the OS into it's main components and straitening up their spaghetti code of API calls.
Some of the biggest changes will be how the kernel scales on multi-core CPUs. Probably not a big reason to upgrade until you start getting newer hardware.
Like going to Win7 from a dual core. Not really worth it, but once you start getting to 6 and 8 cores or hyper-thread tech, then Win7 starts to show it's abilities.
Don't need it Windows 7 works great for me. I'd still be using Windows XP if it supported newer versions of DirectX and had better 64bit support.
I upgraded from XP to 7 in December 2009 when I built my new rig. I am perfectly happy with 7 and my pc. I see no reason to upgrade anything this year. That may change in the future if it appears worthwhile.
Have to laugh at people trashing Win8 or labelling the next Me/Vista whilst it's still not even in beta. How about holding off on that until you actually see what it delivers? The full RTM release is probably not for another 18 months.
For the people saying they don't need it.... you don't even know what's in it yet! A lot of people said they didn't need 7 and decided to stick with XP. Believe me, 7 wipes the floor with XP and is a far more polished and secure OS.
However, I would like to see Microsoft offer better discounts for users of Windows 7 is upgrading to 8. The upgrade prices are still usually pretty steep. If they offered 8 for a quarter of the price of a full copy of 7 then it'd be a tempting upgrade. Otherwise, if 7 is still perfectly useable for me to skip a release then I would probably give it a miss.
+1MS has been playing Apple for a while now. They want you to buy a new PC every year as your not-so-old PC isn't qualified to run their latest, fastest, most stable, most secure and most exciting OS.
Unlike apple, Microsoft doesn't sell computers, so this doesn't make any sense at all.
Not me, I'm on my last Windows release, Win 7 64. Years from now it will be replaced with a big iMac. STEAM is on Mac now and more and more games are supporting Mac again. MS days are numbered.