Windows 8 Beta

Windows 8, will be a cloud based OS

Ankur Mittal — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:05:19 +0000

The post on the NDTV Profit news channel site clearly states that according to the sources within Microsoft,the next Operating System will be cloud based. Rajan Anandan, MD of Microsoft India also added that “All new products from here on will be...

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Windows 8 Server to include a new PowerShell Automation platform

Ankur Mittal — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:43:39 +0000

A new job post has been posted on the Microsoft Career site,stating that a new Powershell Automation platform would be added for managing Windows Servers. Here is what the job posted on Microsoft Career site read- Job Category: Software Engineering:...

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Windows 8 Common engineering Criteria (CEC) established

Ankur Mittal — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:33:00 +0000

One of the job posts on the Microsoft Career site states that the Common engineering Criteria (CEC) has already been established. I would be worth interesting to know what all is included in the CEC , though at present no more information is...

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Early (Codename) Windows 8 build compiled

Ankur Mittal — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:55:54 +0000

According to wzor,the early Windows 8 builds has been compiled.Though at present, besides build strings no more information is available, Here are the builds that has been compiled the latest being build 7705- 7702.0.100126-1751 ...

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Windows 8 to be completely different from earlier versions

Ankur Mittal — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:41:58 +0000

In one of the posts on the MSDN Blogs ,the product manager working along with the Windows Update team discussed about what’s coming in the next version of Windows.The post was quickly removed by Microsoft, though we were able to get the catched file...

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Post Windows 7 first screenshots, possibly Windows 8

Ankur Mittal — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:51:05 +0000

Wzor has once again published a couple of screenshots for post Windows 7 build,build 7700,which may mark the beginning of Windows 8.As some of you might be unfamiliar, Microsoft usually start with the current version of Windows and the changes are...

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Windows 8 to be RTMed by July 2011 ?

Ankur Mittal — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:05:40 +0000

Chris Green , a product manager at Microsoft,has published a roadmap,estimating the Product Support Life Cycles for various product. He has not just published the life cycle of various released products but have even mentioned about the...

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Microsoft asking students for suggestions on Windows 8

Ankur Mittal — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:48:02 +0000

In one of the posts on the Microsoft official facebook page for students,Microsoft is asking the students about their opinions and suggestions for the next generation OS codenamed Windows 8. The post reads as You’ve all seen the ads,...

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Next generation of Windows UI and UX coming to Windows 8

Ankur Mittal — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:13:22 +0000

According to the recent job post on the Microsoft career site, the next generation of Windows User Interface and User experience is coming to Windows 8.It would be pretty interesting to see what Microsoft includes in the next version of...

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Possibly Windows 8 build strings revealed

Ankur Mittal — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:44:52 +0000

The guys over at Geeksmack have posted some of the build strings ahead of the Windows 7 RTM. The build strings are: 7650.0.090917-1843 17.09.2009 18:43 7651.0.090924-1802 24.09.2009 18:02 7656.0.091015-0833 15.10.2009 08:33 ...

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