We have been around the block and back with Windows 8, poring over its every rumor and detail. Through the process, the most maddening element of forthcoming operating system has been how well Microsoft has managed to keep a lid on its release schedule. Until now.Mary Jo Foley, a veteran Microsoft reporter, only blogs rumors that she trusts, tips from sources that have delivered in past. This means that when she says that she has heard something, we listen....
Reports are popping up that Windows 8 might be dropping in, around, or slightly before the first quarter of 2012, leaving us both quizzical and skeptical. Aleaked Dell timelinehas a Windows 8 tablet slated for release in the first quarter of 2012, tossing massive fuel on the fire that, yes indeed, Windows 8 might be coming sooner than we had expected. In fact, the last time that we brought you news of Windows 8’s release, we had it pegged forJanuary, 2013....
When it rains, it pours, as the saying goes, and that seems to be holding true for Windows 8 leaks. Once the ball began to roll, it now seems that we can’t go 48 hours without something shaking loose from the next generation Microsoft OS. Today’s leak is focused on what is likely set to be the tablet interface for Windows 8, the mysterious ‘second UI’ that we have heard so much about....
The Windows 8 leaks continue to bubble to the surface, now aided greatly by the full leak of a Windows 8 build to thegeneral public. Chief among the most recently teased out revelations is the fact that Windows 8 will include the power to employ push notifications. If you were curious as to what Microsoft’s tablet strategy for the future will be, it appears that you need to look no further than Windows 8....
With new information extracted from Windows 8 in hand, it appears that Microsoft was being more than honest when it called its next operating system arisky product bet. Two reports, onefrom ITWorld, and the otherfrom ZDNetoutline Windows 8’s virtualization features, and if what they are saying bears out in the future, the coming operating system from Microsoft might be like no other before it. Virtualization, just for reference, in the operating system sense is the capability to run several ‘images’ of the OS at once, on a single piece of hardware....
