Yea ,its true there is an upcoming windows8 @ 2012 .
New York - ASHA -
Stephen Senovsky unit manager for Windows at Microsoft's U.S. operating systems computer that Windows 8 to be issued as successor to Windows -7 can run desktop computers, laptops, tablet PCs together, asserting that Microsoft plans to sell 400 million copies of its new year.
Although the Windows operating system from Microsoft is the most commonly used and widespread in the history of the personal computer in the world, many of the challenges have become threatened in recent years.
Such as the spread of tablet PCs and smartphones, running different OSes, while the wait when the world is a long time to see how it will try to Microsoft to maintain its position in the market for operating systems, and appear to be on the way to do that after recently offered some of the features of the operating system next which may be called "Windows 8", is expected to launch mid-next year.
For the first time since 1995 to go Microsoft to new frontiers in the development and design of operating system known as Windows, where he witnessed the announcement of some of the features of the next version of it "Windows 8" a lot of radical changes in the form of system interface and the way in which it operates, which we have become accustomed to for 16 years.
While some analysts that the next operating system and Windows 8 will be the end for Microsoft, others believe that it would be her savior, but the only sure thing is that it is a big step forward.
For many years was not for Windows real competitor only operating system that Apple's computers, but it is no longer the case certainly, after the overwhelming success of the Tablet PCs and smartphones, is Windows facing many operating systems simpler to work on those devices, from companies such as Apple and Google RIM and BlackBerry phones Sabhh and others, Fbtna see the post-PC devices thanks to the small and practical, which is the range that Microsoft has failed in the competition which effectively even today.
However, the forthcoming operating system and Windows 8 is the latest serious attempts by Microsoft to change this reality user interface simpler and more easy to use.
The Senovsky that the new system has not been named yet, and that the name "Windows 8" is the name of a temporary and informal, and did not say when the name will be available, and promised more details at a conference in September, and added that Microsoft is working to integrate Skype for calls on the Internet in the new system after an agreement to buy the company last month, in addition to the new version of the browser "Internet Explorer".
New Windows 8 is based on many of the ideas contained in the latest system from Microsoft to run Windows Mobile Phones and von 7, including the use of reliance on the touch screen and show the content and programs in the form of large colored boxes, instead of small icons.
Engineers say a new Windows and Windows 8 The experience of touch screens is transferred from small to large screens on the way to get rid of the keyboard and mouse (mouse), even if it would be good to work with the keyboard and mouse.
At the same time, it seems that the current operating system Windows 7 to achieve good results for desktop computers, has revealed a recent report that a quarter of users of the Windows operating system from Microsoft, using the version of Windows 7, pointing out that the fastest operating system in the world, in terms of sales and marketing as described by Microsoft.
He also stressed that one of every four users of the Windows system uses Windows 7, Microsoft launched for the first time for sale on the market in October 2009.
After 3 months of the launch of Windows 7 has sold Microsoft 60 million copies of it, and when the passage of 15 months, and reached sales figures to copy the license to 300 million, before you jump to 50 million dollars extra in the last three months, to reach sales of official licensed to 350 million copies.
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