Windows 7 Themes

You voted for your favorite Windows 8 features on our site. Now, let’s take a look at what Microsoft is planning right now for the next Windows installment.

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Another very exciting poll is about to end. This time you picked your most-wanted features for Windows.next aka Windows 8. The poll clearly shows that there is a great interest in all of the features, out of 2000+ votes every single feature received at least 100 votes!

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So, with a release date for Windows 7 SP1 in sight, I decided that it’s time to bring our Windows 8 Wishlist Project to the next level. Microsoft promised that they will listen to customer feedback in their all-new Windows.next! If you have a great idea for a new feature, suggest it (see poll in sidebar). We’ll be sending the final list to Microsoft for consideration.

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The release of Windows 8 is highly anticipated, but what exactly is the release date for Windows 8? Windows 7 hit the shelves in October 2009 and Microsoft will continue to work on a SP1 for some months until Microsoft will be fully working on Windows 8 in June/July 2010 when their new fiscal year begins.

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Will you pre-order Windows 8? Of course your answer greatly depends on your opinion about Windows 7. Do you like Windows 7 so far? Are you looking forward to the “next-generation” Windows 8? We want to hear your opinion.

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I’ve been using Windows 7 for nearly a year and I am pretty happy with it, but sometimes I still have some unsatisfied wishes and it makes me think about the future of Windows and Microsoft. What is on your Windows 8 wishlist?

Windows 8 Wishlist Project

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.. although some of them might not be that new, because they have been in development for over 2 years by now.

Overall, there are currently 5 new operating systems in development.

Here’s the list:

1. Windows 8 (Windows 7 Successor)
2. Windows Midori (Written entirely in managed code)
3. Windows Singularity (Basically the same as Windows Midori)
4. Windows Azure (Cloud Computing OS)
5. Barrelfish (Multicore OS)

Ok, that might be a shock for some. Here’s another surprise…
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Windows 8 will have a completely new interface. This has been confirmed by now. Rumors say that they will even replace the Windows Explorer with something totally new. Because the Windows 7 filesystem is very slow they also plan to include a brand new filesystem. Tests showed that the current Windows 7 filesystem is even slower than XP.

Windows 7 is using a lightweight kernel called “MinWin”, which will be used in Windows 8 as well. According to an interview with Eric Traut (Microsoft Engineer) the Windows kernel is by now 12-15 years old. It will have to be replaced at some point in time.

Not many know that Microsoft has been working on a completely new OS (for nearly two years now) that includes a brand new kernel and is written entirely in managed code (more secure).

If you want to find out more about Windows 8 and Windows Singularity, click here http://windows8themes.org/. Make sure to bookmark us!

Some of our readers might already know about it: Windows8Themes.org
Now that Microsoft is hiring more people to work on Windows 8, it was time to finally launch Windows8Themes.org.

Windows8Themes.org Launch

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