Microsoft Backtracks from Ballmer’s Windows 8 Comments

The next version of Windows will cost called Windows 8 and IT's coming in 2020, or is it? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called the modern OS Windows 8 connected Mon and said it would represent coming out next year during a speech at a developer conference in Tokyo, according to a transcript on Microsoft's situation. Previously, Microsoft had been careful to look up to Windows 8 only A "the next variation of Windows."

Microsoft was before long backtracking from Ballmer's statements saying that Microsoft has not officially announced any "timing or designatio for the next version of Windows."

That wasn't all Ballmer had to tell close to the OS formerly referred to as Windows 8. "We'atomic number 75 obviously hard at process the side by side version of Windows," Ballmer said. "…as we look forward to the next generation of Windows systems, which will come out next class, there's a whole lot to a greater extent coming … expect to pick up a lot about Windows 8. Windows 8 slates, tablets, PCs, a miscellanea of different form factors."

But Microsoft was also quick to back off Ballmer's tip off about coming Windows 8 devices. The company says Ballmer may have misspoke and that Microsoft is looking forward to the next generation of Windows 7-based hardware, non Windows 8 gadgets.

Scorn what Microsoft is saying formally, most Windows watchers expect to go through a public beta version of Windows 8 later this year, with an regular release coming in 2020. In that location's likewise a rumor that Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Elastic partition, will give an azoic preview of Windows 8 incoming week during the AllThingsD D9 conference that runs from May 31-June 2, according to WinRumors.

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