Windows 8 by 2012 as Shown on Microsoft Slide
Will Windows 8 be here before the end of the world?
Windows 7 is the fresh face of Microsoft right now (aside from Steve Ballmer, who also has quite the face), but it seems that the reign of the latest Windows won't last much longer than just a few years.
According to Windows Roadmap slides found by Msftkitchen at PDC 2009, the next major release of Windows is due in 2012.
As can be seen in the slide below, listed under "~2010" is "Major Release" for "Code Name 'Windows 8'".
Of course, the fact that there will be a version of Windows after the current one shouldn't be surprising, but this marks the first time that Microsoft has laid out an approximate time frame of when we might see it.
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Microsoft is obviously planning to crush everyone's hopes by putting the release date after the apocalypse
Windows 8 is what the Mayans foretold
As can be seen in the slide below, listed under "~2010" is "Major Release" for "Code Name 'Windows 8'".
~2012 not ~2010
You guys are getting slack. Still funny about the whole end of the world thing though.
Didn't windows come every 3 years "back in the day"? I thought that was what MS always planned but screwed up with Vista and started over mid-dev.
Windows 8 will come online 2012, nuke the world and build hundreds human looking rabots! now we're f**ked! So says John Connor.
We done Microsoft you've killed us all!
Proof of old news. I commented a few weeks ago that wikipedia had Windows 8 slated at 2012.
Perhaps this is foretelling that Win8 will be even worse then Vista?!