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Windows 8 Coming in Fall 2012 and the "Risks" it Brings With It.
by
Greg Leighton
on
Jun 25, 2011
At September's BUILD Conference, Microsoft Vice President Dan'l Lewin slips a hint that Windows 8 will be arriving September/October of 2012; The end of XP and Vista and a new direction for Microsoft to go in.
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At a recent BUILD conference, Microsoft Vice President Dan'l Lewin drops a hint that Windows 8 will be arriving September or October of 2012 with 2011 being close to a year of testing and more testing, and with good reason. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insists that Windows 8 is his company's "riskiest product", possibly referring to what happened with Windows Vista as well as the plans that revolve around its use as an OS for the mobile network and not just the PC realm. Microsoft made great leaps forward from the rocky launch of Windows Vista to the stunning Windows 7, becoming the fastest selling operating system of all time. Will the arrival of Windows 8 be better or for worse? With a shorter development time for Windows 8, time will soon tell.
Jason Mick for DailyTech.com writes:
At a promotional event for September's BUILD conference, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President Dan'l Lewin let the company's purported launch schedule
slip. He said that a beta would land soon after the conference and the
OS would go through a year of tune-up testing before being officially
launched in September/October 2012.
That launch date "makes sense" as it's in line with most past Windows launches, which typically came in the Fall.
Windows 8 will follow the best-selling Windows 7 operating system, which launched in Oct. 2009. Its development cycle will last approximately three years -- about the same as that of Windows 7, which replaced the Jan. 2007 launched Vista. (It is worth noting that Vista took approximately five years to develop.)
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Additionally, Mick writes:
Windows
7 still has a ways to become the world's best selling operating system of all time, but it has already earned the distinction of
being the fastest
selling operating system ever. That's a tough act to follow
for Microsoft which is looking forward to its
next operating system, even as it works on new Windows 7 updates
and finishes phasing out Windows XP (which coincidentally was the
best-selling OS of all time).
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With moving Windows 8 as the new cutting edge system, Microsoft aims to keep its ongoing success in a changing technology climate and high expectations, in just over a year to prepare, Microsoft plans to win big.
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