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According tothe latest StatCounter data, Windows 7 has managed to scoot past Windows XP in terms of market share and is now the most popular operating system in the world. Its predecessor, Windows Vista, never had a shot of beating XP. Windows 7 has been a success for Microsoft, and has salvaged some of the damage done by Vista to the larger Windows brand. Windows 7 has sold some 450 million copies of Windows 7, the company claimed at it recent BUILD event....

Apps that use the “new Windows” approach to programming will be built in HTML and JavaScript, said Windows president Steven Sinofsky at D9’sWindows 8 announcementtoday. Windows 8 will run traditional Windows applications as well, but the company will encourage developers to adopt this new approach to application development that depends on the new wave of web technologies. We’ll have to see how this fits together with leaked information from January about development technologies Microsoft reportedly codenamedJupiterandMosh....

A Milestone 2 build of Windows 8has leaked, and is available in the normal places where one might search for such a thing. The build was compiled in February, meaning that it is in fact quite dated. Even more, a Milestone 3 build numbered 7989 leaked in July, showing off where Microsoft was in April, meaning that this 7927 build is not current at all. What is interesting is that someone decided to leak the version at such a late date, and that there is apparent market demand for its download and use....

In the interest of generating as much excitement as possible for its new Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft has made the Developer Preview of the new OS available for all to downloadon its site. The DP is available in three different versions. A package with developer tools, just the developer preview alone and one that runs on 32-bit computers. Microsoft has posted some minimum requirements for those interested in trying out the new Developer Preview:...

TNW Quick Hit: Hot on the heels of the firstWindows 8 screenshots leaking, and being duller than we could have imagined, we have two new pieces to the Windows 8 puzzle that we found to be quite interesting. According to the same source that leaked the images,two things are trueabout Windows 8 that are very important: Why does this matter? If Windows 8 can install faster, restore in a flash, and ‘wake up’ in a snap, then Windows would finally be ready for the mobile world....