Ballmer: 'Next Generation of Windows Systems' Coming Next Year
The name "Windows 8" may have been tossed around a lot as of late, but Steve Ballmer himself has only just now uttered the name for the first time in public at the company's developer forum in Japan. What's more, while he didn't divulge a ton of specifics, he did say that the "next generation of Windows systems" will be coming out next year, and that "there's a whole lot more coming," including "slates, tablets, PCs, a variety of different form factors." As ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley notes, the distinction between "slates" and "tablets" as two separate form factors is certainly an interesting one, as is the fact that he curiously didn't use the name Windows 8 in connection with those next generation Windows systems.
What does it all mean? Perhaps Microsoft's Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, will have more to say during his appearance the D9 conference next week.
10 comments:
Hopefully it isn't full of bugs like the previous OS
Im a PC and I cant wait! :D
they should be making a hybrid linux-windows tablet and basically do what apple did but better
they update too much!! I'm still using xp!
Too many updates. Just keep working on 7. I'd like to know waht a "slate" PC is as well.
sounds great
Damn, I had just gotten 7! lol
what abut 7?
They are already late to the tablet OS party...
Heard a lot about windows 8 lately, seen a few images of it and heard that apparently the boot time is 2x better than that of windows 7
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