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Microsoft's communication around Windows 8 may be strange, but the company isn't budging. We notably remember the statements from Steve Ballmer who had indicated, as CEO of the company, that Windows 8 would be released in 2012. Statements that were followed by a Microsoft denial explaining that the date still had to be announced. And yet, a few weeks later, an official comes to provide even more precise information.

Dan'l Lewin, one of the company's vice-presidents, recently answered a few questions from the Tech Radar website. Among them was obviously the release date of Windows 8 and, surprise, an answer was given: " if you look into the crystal ball and look at what happened in the past, there is a clear indicator of what our future predictions will be. "

What clear indicator is he talking about? The release cycle of Windows versions of course. What is it? About three years, the point five between Windows XP and Vista was a "accident" hiccup. So if we assume three years and remember that Windows 7 was released in fall 2009, then we should expect Windows to arrive in fall 2012, or in more than a year.

An assertion reinforced by other details from Dan'l Lewin, who provides two additional pieces of information:

The Windows 8 beta is scheduled for the BUILD conference (formerly PDC) to be held in September
The commercial version of the system will arrive 12 months after the beta

It's a bit longer than for Windows 7. As a reminder, the beta for the latter arrived in January 2009 and lasted about 6 months. At the end of that period, Microsoft waited three months for partner offerings to be ready.

A fall 2012 release seems quite logical if we consider the changes Microsoft is making to its operating system. Although no technical information has been given, we know that many works on the interface (or rather the interfaces) are underway, as evidenced by recent presentations at Computex and the D9 conference by All Things Digital.

This also indicates that very many pieces of information still remain to be given, even if the BUILD conference should reveal most of them. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft will reiterate its approach for the beta phase: a public download but above all very well prepared with a system practically usable as is.

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Here's another big mess :93:
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Or else pick Ubuntu, which gets updated every 6 months and is free :D
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Ha, an ubuntu fan ^_^
here, check this out https://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/
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Personally, I've been on Windows 8 build 7955 for a week :p

There's nothing new since seven honestly.. Except in Explorer and the logon but that's just gadgets that could very well be on seven...
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safirion wrote:Personally, I've been on Windows 8 build 7955 for a week :p

There's nothing new since seven honestly.. Except in Explorer and the logon but that's just gadgets that could very well be on seven...
sniper3d wrote:there we go, another huge piece of crap :93:
know what I'm saying :93:
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thanks sniper3d, but it doesn't interest me ;)
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Personally, M$ really bugs me releasing an OS just to make money because that's really what this is about. releasing an OS after millennium was necessary, although there was a manufacturing intent there and it would deserve a new free OS... anyway, same old story. I'm on XP and I'll stay there as long as I can :roll:

Jiiwah wrote:Or else pick Ubuntu, which gets updated every 6 months and is free :D
there are certain sides of ubuntu and co that are nice but the lack of compatibility with games and hardware, the lack of simplicity to install software, made me turn back. :(
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We should really make a TGames OS :93:
Any volunteers :93:
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we already had trouble getting wiiflow going again, let alone an OS :roll: :D :93:
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Personally, I've never paid for OSes :D
Except those preinstalled on my PCs :p

Everything for PC