The D-Spot (The Deployment Spot) » Windows 8 http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress Tickle your Deployment needs. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:43:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Windows 8 http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2009/10/27/windows-8/ http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2009/10/27/windows-8/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:50:02 +0000 Siegmund http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/?p=164 err… no it’s not a typo ! it’s not a bird, it’s not an aeroplane: it’s Windows 8 !

Even though Windows 7 has just been born, it’s not a secret that Microsoft is already working on its successor, let’s call it Windows 8 for the time being.

It’s too early off course to have official information on this, but what do we know already?

  • - release date is somewhere in 2012 ( following a new major Server release )
  • - near the end of 2010 the first public beta (including a nearly definitive feature list) should be available
  • - stop 32 bit support, but introducing 128 bit support ?
  • - thanks to a new API, hibernate/resume will be even more faster than today
  • - better multimonitor support ( rumors about three or more monitors are spreading… )
  • - changes in network security, authentication and encryption are very probable
  • …

to be continued !

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