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We haven’t really settled into Windows 7 yet, and the rumors about Windows 8 are already starting to flow. Based on ‘leaks’ from the Redmond campus, it appears that Windows 8 is going to replace sliced-bread as the most amazing thing ever.
But what’s Windows 8 going to be like? One Microsoft employee, purportedly working on Windows 8, let his exuberance get the better of him and posted this on an MSDN blog (which has since been deleted but, because you can’t hide your sins once posted, has been cached): “The minimum that folks can take for granted is that the next version will be something completely different from what folks usually expect of Windows...The themes that have been floated truly reflect what people have been looking for [for] years and it will change the way people think about PCs and the way they use them. It is the future of PCs…”
So, Windows 8 will be “different from what folks usually expect of Windows,” “what people have been looking for”, and “will change the way people think about PCs”. There are some obvious responses to these proclamations: good, competent, useful, but, one suspects, Microsoft will be aiming a bit higher than this for Windows 8.
In another Windows 8 comment, John Magelarrs, Regional Vice President of Consumer and Online at Microsoft EMA said: “For me, Windows 8 will be mind-blowing.” There you have it--a whole lot more of nothing.
All this leaves Steven Chapman, at Microsoft Kitchen, wondering “just what in the heck Steven Sinofsky and crew are cooking up for Windows 8.” The best guess he can venture is that Windows 8 will be 64-bit only. Well, if it’s going to be mind-blowing, that’s the least we should expect.
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Error12
March 03, 2011 at 11:44am
I Heard All These Statements About Vista Too..And Look How That Turned Out.I Hope Its Something Different Something New And Hope Ill Like It .. Jst A Question Do U Know When Will It Release ?
Cruzg10
February 14, 2010 at 4:36pm
Yeah heard that before. How quickly MPC forgets all the hype they built up for vista as the greatest operating system ever in the history of time. Sorry MPC you failed me last time so i have to take it with a grain of salt.
Zazubovich
February 12, 2010 at 3:16pm
But I bet in reality it will be another Vista-Millenium Edition stillbirth product.
icebird
February 12, 2010 at 5:46am
Win8 will run on the LCARS interface. I, like others however, cannot shake that creepy Vista feeling.
dougau
February 11, 2010 at 4:07pm
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roleki
February 11, 2010 at 3:37pm
What better way to generate advance buzz than to 'leak' something then pull it back, as if it hadn't filtered through legal and marketing on its way to some obscure blog. That said, I sometimes wonder why, whenever one of these MS employees springs a leak, they seem all-too-eager to absentmindedly denigrate Microsoft's previous and current products in order to elevate expectations for the next product. Do they get some kind of extra bonus severance package if they simultaneously exalt and shit upon MS in some public way on their way out?
Neufeldt2002
February 11, 2010 at 3:34pm
You know, I heard all these statements about vista too, look how that turned out. I refuse to believe the machine until I get my own hands on it.
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Mark17
February 11, 2010 at 3:02pm
If it is really mind blowing then I would expect to see Windows 8 support quantum computing. But, if that's the case, would that mean Windows could blue screen and and not blue screen at the same time?
To0nces
February 11, 2010 at 2:44pm
Pretty obvious this is pure hype. I'll be genuinely shocked if Microsoft manages to do something "mind-blowing". At least "mind-blowing" in a good way.
quantumnerd
February 11, 2010 at 4:14pm
Well, knowing Microsoft, they likely omitted the "up" part. So when they said "mind-blowing", they meant "mind blow-uping". AKA KABEWM screen of YOU'RE DEAD.
=[The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.]=
ceator3571
February 11, 2010 at 2:39pm
Hmmm. "Feel free to post your comments on what you think Windows.net should be like!"
".net" clue or typo?
