Microsoft roadmap pegs Windows 8 release for 2012, or just after the world’s end

Published by Tech Pundit | Filed under Gadgets & Tech, Microsoft, Windows | November 21st, 2009

It’s somewhat hard to believe that we’re already talking about Windows 8 given that Windows 7 just hit the shelves two months ago, but you know the engineers at Microsoft are already planning ahead. According to a roadmap constructed over at Microsoft Kitchen — based around whispers heard through the grapevine on the eventual release of the next Windows Server — the next iteration of Windows is tentatively pegged for release in the year 2012. Of course, a three-year window between Windows 7 and the next version is totally believable, but we wouldn’t go planning your end of the world party with the assumption that a new OS will be the main attraction .

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Microsoft roadmap pegs Windows 8 release for 2012, or just after the world’s end