February 9th, 2010
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 sharing any details on the release with the public. The silence continues even at this point in time, when the first reports indicating that Microsoft has actually kicked off the development process for Windows 8 began emerging. Still, sometimes details leak outside of Redmond. It is the case of a Program Manager on the Windows 8 team which claims that the next version of Windows will be unlike anything users expect of the operating system.
“The minimum that folks can take for granted is that the next version will be something completly different from what folks usually expect of Windows – I am simply impressed with the process that Steven has setup to listen to our customers needs and wants and get a team together than can make it happen. To actually bring together dozens and dozens of teams across Microsoft to come up with a vision for Windows.next is a process that is surreal! The themes that have been floated truly reflect what people have been looking for years and it will change the way people think about PCs and the way they use them. It is the future of PCs… Thats about it for this post for the time being – I know I’m not sharing much at this point but right now I can’t as we work towards finalizing that vision,” the PM said.
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February 9th, 2010
Windows 7 is a smashing success according to Microsoft, whose statistics indicate that the operating system sold in excess of 60 million licenses since General Availability in October 22nd, 2009. At the same time, Microsoft is shifting its focus on the next iteration of the Windows client, which, according to the Redmond company, is at least codenamed Windows 8, if the moniker won’t become the official brand, just as it was the case for Windows 7. But while looking ahead, at just three months after Windows 7 GA, Microsoft is not yet ready to talk specifics about Windows 8.
In an interview with ZDNet UK, Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division, managed to be as elusive as possible. For example, to the question whether Microsoft will be able to top Windows 7 with Windows 8, Sinofsky stated “There’s no answer to that. That’s what we do, and that’s the work we’re going to do. It’s the balance between solving problems and innovation.”
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February 9th, 2010
The company of Redmond would be already preparing his team of development to begin the process of creation and assembly of the new operating system, specially setting off in the second semester of 2010.
Between some of the innovations established in the waybill, they emphasize the update of all kinds of applications developed for third, as well as the virtualization of teams and operative platforms of a more fluid and finished way.
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February 7th, 2010
With Windows 7 making strides forward in its usage and popularity I thought it about time to have a look forward to what I hope Windows 8 will be like.
Its probably best to first look forward to what we know is coming in the future and see how those trends might affect what Microsoft do with Windows 8.
- Mobile devices including phones, netbooks and tablets are going to become an increasingly important part of our lives and perhaps we’ll become more dependant on them than desktops and large notebook PCs. Part of this trend includes “location aware” technology that is often used in mobile phones and increasingly online services like Twitter are using more with features like Local Trends.
- Natural User Interface (NUI) is becoming an increasing trend of Microsoft to include in its products with full touch support in Windows 7 and Project Natal on its way for Xbox.
- Google plan to release their Chrome OS before the end of the year which will bring a brand new kind of operating system to computers, a cloud OS. This will mean that PCs will no longer need to have powerful hardware within them or large amount of storage as nearly all services will be accessed from the Cloud.
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February 7th, 2010
7700.0.100122-190 (Early Windows 8 Development) Screenshots Released by WZT
WZT has installed the client version of POST-RTM build 7700.0.100122-1900 (x64) and released it’s hash information.
FILE: 7700.0.100122-1900_x64fre_client_en-us-GRMCXFRE_EN_DVD.iso
SIZE: 3,231,166,444 bytes
SHA-1: C0CB719B781D49B39D8CC93A27F990A366B8E4C7
It should be noted that this is apart of the WinMain branch and not the SP Branch… meaning this is quite probably the early development stages of Windows 8.
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February 6th, 2010
With the latest news of estimated Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Office 2012 RTM dates, I was reminded of something I ran across a while back but never posted about. The Microsoft Windows 7 blog, Engineering 7, gained quite the following during its tenure. It was a way for Microsoft to be transparent about some of their thinking for Windows 7 and to gain valuable feedback from customers the world around. Well, thanks to an apparent placeholder page on MSDN, it appears Microsoft is going to do it again with Windows 8!
Read the rest of the article at msftkitchen.com
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February 6th, 2010
Windows 8 might ship in 64 bit and 128 bit versions, based on the LinkedIn profile of Microsoft employee Robert Morgan:
Working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and long-term projects. Research & Development projects including 128 bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan. Forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP, and IBM.
Robert Morgan is working to get IA-128 working backwards with full binary compatibility on the existing IA-64 instructions in the hardware simulation to work for Windows 8 and definitely Windows 9.
Hmm, very interesting…
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February 6th, 2010
Windows 7 build 7600 is the RTM version that’s on all the new PCs today. It’s the version that was completed shipped by Microsoft last summer – but it appears as though the developers are still tinkering away at it.
Neowin reported that a Russian site Wzor, which has a history of Windows leaks, posted screenshots from a post-RTM Windows 7 build 7700.
While many of you will find the screenshot completely uneventful, given that there does not appear to be any visual changes aside from the version number, the real news here comes from the build strings that tell us the progress that Microsoft is making.
The latest leak is 7700.winmain.100122-1900, which tells us that it is build 7700 and it was compiled in the ‘winmain’ lab on January 22, 2010 at 1900 hours.
Build strings leading up to this latest one are:…..
Read full article at softarchive.net
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February 6th, 2010
Despite the emphatic success of Windows 7, the fastest selling OS in history, Microsoft is hard at work improving the operating system and its successors Microsoft is reportedly readying Windows 7 Service Pack 1 for a June 2010 beta release and a September 2010 final release. The SP1 will bring out of the box support for USB 3.0, one of the most exciting new computer technologies.
And according to Chris Green, a former Microsoft developer, Microsoft is already hard at work on the best-selling operating system’s successor, code named Windows 8. The next-gen Windows may be released on July 2011. He leaked an entire release schedule which includes the upcoming Office 2010 and its successor Office 2012.
Microsoft also had some other good news to report. In January 2010, Internet Explorer 8 became the world’s most used browser, passing IE 6. IE 8 currently has about a 22.31 percent market share worldwide. Internet Explorer 8’s gains have been partially fueled by Windows 7’s success — IE 8 is the default browser on the U.S. edition of the OS.
IE 8 also has benefited from a recent push by Microsoft to get users away from IE 6 and IE 7, both of which have a flaw that was exploited by Chinese hackers to steal corporate data. Microsoft is urging users to upgrade to the new browser. Amazingly 20.07 percent of users in January still used IE 6 (many of these were likely business users). Google recently announced that it would be phasing out support for IE 6.
Microsoft appears to be firing on all cylinders. If it can continue its momentum with the release of Office 2010 later this year, it should be in a very favorable position at the year’s end.
Read entire article at Techcrunch
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