Microsoft to Focus on Windows 8 Starting July '10

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  • jhansonxi
    So is Windows 8 going to be "new" or just Vista SP3? How many people are they hiring in the USA versus overseas?
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  • 10tacle
    jhansonxiSo is Windows 8 going to be "new" or just Vista SP3? How many people are they hiring in the USA versus overseas?
    Was XP in your mind "new" or was it just Windows 2000 patched? What is your definition of "new", an entire new kernel OS built from scratch? Good luck waiting on that. I have Vista x64 and while it runs outstanding, this Holiday season I'll upgrade to Windows 7 because while not "new" it does offer improvement in some applications including games over Vista.

    Second, what difference does it make how many people they are hiring overseas for this vs. in the USA? While based in the US, Microsoft is an international company and does a lot of business overseas the last time I checked.
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  • igot1forya
    "Microsoft to Focus on Windows 8 Starting July '10..."

    ...releases Alpha July 11
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  • Regulas
    Since MS collaborated with Hollywood, RIAA the NAS and who knows who else to make Vista SP3. Windows 8 will done in super secret probation so the MS fan-boys will love it even more.
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  • ssalim
    Why aren't they working on Win7 SP2 instead?
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  • hellwig
    Hopefully I get time to upgrade my computer with the Windows 7 installs I pre-ordered before Windows 8 comes around. Its just so hard though, to dedicate a whole weekend to upgrade a computer that is still running perfectly fine under Win Xp x64.

    I think Microsoft is moving a little fast now (though they needed to axe Vista even faster than they did, they couldn't survive much more anti-vista PR). They need to do what they did with XP. They have an OS people are happy with now, and they need to maintain and improve it. If Win 8 is just SP3 (just as Win 7 is really just SP2), they will soon find people not giving a rats ass about the new Windows, especially if Microsoft keeps charging big bucks for them.

    Then again, Apple releases "new" OSs all the time, and the fanbois seem to keep buying and installing them, maybe that's what Microsoft is going for.
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  • apache_lives
    Windows Vista and 7 share the same OS core version esentially v6.x - as much as you all dont like it there related, same as 2k and XP (5.x)

    Microsoft usually makes 2 os's from the one core, so Windows 8 should have a new core.
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  • hannibal
    apache_lives is right. Vista was main release, Win7 was minor, Win8 is the next major release and two year from that there is "facelift" minor release and so on. So 4 years life cycle with one face lift in between.
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  • vaskodogama
    so it is 8, not names like vista, or XP, numbers make more sense than names in computer
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  • zerapio
    ssalimWhy aren't they working on Win7 SP2 instead?Because SP2 is free but Win8 will cost money.
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