Monday, May 23, 2011

Windows 8 may be shown next week


On Monday confirmed the participation of Steven Sinofsky - boss appointed by Microsoft to lead the development of Windows - in the ninth edition of All Things Digital conference, where he will be responsible for the first public appearance of so-called Windows 8.


In his presentation, Sinofsky will talk about "the future of Windows in an era of new devices and cloud computing" in the words of the very organization of the event.

In an attempt to combat the wide variety of mobile devices that have appeared there since the current release of Windows 7 *, the next generation of MS operating system is being developed also to run on ARM processors that currently give life to smartphones and slates that are out there. Breaking it aroused jealousy giant Intel, which first sees his longtime partner to open your old Windows for other architectures the war are to be x86.

Since the beginning of the year several screenshots and test versions of Windows 8 have been leaked by the network, but this is the first time that Microsoft will talk about their new product.