Windows 8 - Coming to a PC near you

Windows 8 – Coming to a PC near you

Microsoft is working hard on their next release of Microsoft Windows. Windows 8 is expected to be available sometime in 2012. From what we can gather, Windows 8 is going have a revamped GUI and support for ARM processors. Windows 8 is also supposed to have a feature called Hybrid Boot, which allows for faster OS load times.

Once more information becomes available we will let you know.

Current Versions of Windows 8 (Information from Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia)

Milestone 1 (build 7850, with a build date of September 22, 2010) was leaked to BetaArchive, an online beta community, which was soon leaked to P2P/torrent sharing networks on April 12, 2011. Milestone 1 includes a ribbon interface for Windows Explorer, a PDF reader called Modern Reader, an updated task manager called Modern Task Manager, and native ISO mounting.

A Milestone 3 build, build 7971, was released to close partners of Microsoft on March 29, 2011 but was kept under heavy security. However, a few screenshots were leaked. The Windows 7 Basic theme has been replaced with a new theme, where the boxes that encase the "close, maximize, and minimize" buttons have been removed, leaving just the signs.

Milestone 3 includes a new Welcome screen, a new packaged application model called AppX that is based on Silverlight, Windows Store to review and buy applications online, and a setting for automatically adjusting the window color to fit the wallpaper. It also includes a stripped down "Immersive" version of Internet Explorer, similar to the mobile version of Internet Explorer, but using the desktop Trident rendering engine.