Originally Posted by Soni Meinke

"I have been very involved in an effort around some early planning Win 8. It's been largely focused on establishing a customer tour where we basically go on-site to customers and really drill into their broad cross-Windows server
future needs. Not specifically looking at just the Win 8 time frame, but just post-Win 7 and beyond. We've done that with the hope of getting these engagements and voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle and driving that early on into the planning process for Win 8"

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/0...yond-windows-7

As long as they do beta programs like they did with Windows 7, they can't go wrong.

I just hope they can start being consistent. I'm glad that Microsoft has started providing us with wonderful applications such as Bing, Windows 7 and Microsoft Security Essentials. Even IE8 was great as compared to previous versions. If they are consistent or even better than last time, I'm sure Microsoft will be respected and live up to it's name of the world's best software creator.

Like someone wrote on Neowin comments:

Lets hope they dont fall in to their normal pattern....

Windows 3.11 - Good
Windows 95 - Bad
Windows 98 - Good
Windows ME - Bad
Windows XP - Good
Windows Vista - Bad (tho I have hat no issues)
Windows 7 - Good
Windows 8 - ????

Good luck Microsoft.

What I'm hearing is the next OS (not 7) will be the last "Windows" OS, everything will be internet based.

Internet based cloud computing using an open-sourced browser... We'll have to wait and see, but trends are leading to that type of computing existence... seems kind of boring, no?

Originally Posted by Charbroil57

Internet based cloud computing using an open-sourced browser... We'll have to wait and see, but trends are leading to that type of computing existence... seems kind of boring, no?

Yes.