Windows 8 in 2012?

[Budeone]

Steven Sinofsky may not be talking about Microsoft's future Windows plans, but the Windows Server team appears to see more value in letting customers know its road map.
In at least two slides apparently shown at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft suggests that a major release update to Windows Server is due around 2012, with one of the slides confirming the Windows 8 code name.
I've asked both the desktop and server teams for more context on the slides, which were noted this week by blogger Stephen Chapman. A similar slide cropped up--that time in Italian-- in August.
For his part, Sinofsky sat completely stone-faced when I asked him in our interview Wednesday where Microsoft was at relative to Windows 8--later noting that he hadn't even used the word Windows next to the numeral 8.
"I didn't say any of the words--Windows 8--those were all your words," he said
The 2012 time frame would roughly coincide with Windows Server's plans of having a minor release every two years or so and a major release every four years. It released Windows Server 2008 R2, a minor update, earlier this year as the desktop team released Windows 7.





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[ConductRe]

Seems about right, Beta in mid 2011?

[Budeone]

Probably close. It will be interesting to start reading what they call "major release every four years"

[John]

Well, focus is supposedly going to switch to Windows 8 in July 2010.
Sounds feasable to me, when looking at the development cycle Windows 7 had.

[craz]

I'm betting on 2012. MS needs to stick to its word that Windows 7 is a major release. Anything earlier than 4 years would show that this was not the major release they had talked about

[johnhenry]

I'm betting on 2012. MS needs to stick to its word that Windows 7 is a major release. Anything earlier than 4 years would show that this was not the major release they had talked about

Oh it is almost near!!!!but to wait for a little while...

[jaydeee]

If its gonna bring good things to mankind then it should be OK...
but do you think that its just Microsoft way of marketing???
just a thought.