Windows 8 by 2012 as Shown on Microsoft Slide
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Will Windows 8 be here before the end of the world?
Windows 7 is the fresh face of Microsoft right now (aside from Steve Ballmer, who also has quite the face), but it seems that the reign of the latest Windows won't last much longer than just a few years.
According to Windows Roadmap slides found by Msftkitchen at PDC 2009, the next major release of Windows is due in 2012.
As can be seen in the slide below, listed under "~2012" is "Major Release" for "Code Name 'Windows 8'".
Of course, the fact that there will be a version of Windows after the current one shouldn't be surprising, but this marks the first time that Microsoft has laid out an approximate time frame of when we might see it.
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About that:
http://msftkitchen.com/2009/08/windows-8-server-due-2012.html
Haha I was thinking that too right when I read that sentence! I remembered seeing this very same diagram a few months back, so I was a little surprised that Tom's would run this story like it was a big announcement made today by MS. Sheesh!
But seriously... just because the planets align with the Milky way does not mean we die.
Dude, it's 2012 not 2010.
Why would you ever need a "last" version of windows, until 2012 lot's of things will change, new hardware, more cloud computing, more web services, tons of new devices (think Natal) ...
You don't have to upgrade Windows every cycle, but that doesn't mean there won't be new things for Microsoft to add to the OS.
I wonder what Apple will be releasing around that time, will Steve Jobs be gone and OSX available for all x86 based hardware...