I was interested that news channels, yes also Microsoft Employees, online sources, and the underground net all point to Windows 8 being Cloud based. There's even a Microsoft research group dedicated to cloud computing. I guess that's a lot of assumptions?
Yes. because none of the ones that might have the facts say it's cloud based. No MS employee, either.
I guess my underground information leaks can be rather over the top at times? The Microsoft ex-employee who was over-excited and leak details a while back while developing it basically said it would make you rethink the current cr@p your using, Windows 7 will be rubbish compared to it, Vista is already binned, XP will be wiped. Codenamed: Windows.next.
He didn't say anything about cloud computing. you, and many other people, are simple assuming that is what he means, when it probably isn't. For all we know it could be the intended "Voice Control only" interface that was planned for windows 9 (which was planned for release in 2009). He could just mean that all the windows backgrounds will have velociraptors.
And it wasn't by any means "underground". an "underground" information leak would be if somebody hacked into the MS servers and was able to acquire code and or spec sheets or design documents. Not something said on a MS employee's official MS blog.
So, Mayan prophecy of doom and destruction, or just another version of Windows? Stay tuned and we'll find.
in 2098 people will think the world is going to end when they find an ancient DOS machine and it tells them that 2100 is an invalid date. FULL STORY
here yeah, that's totally a reliable source. It must be true, it's on the internet.
And windows 8 will either be the in-development Midori or the in-development Singularity products (the former beign a commercial re-implementation of the latter and therefore more likely.
It's important to note that Wikipedia has articles on both- and not a single citation is from a reputable source, it's all blogs and news articles.
From what I can see, I see no suggestion that it will be based, in whole or even on part, on a premise of "cloud computing" running a process across multiple PCs; however, we can already do that, and it's been done for years through the use of Distributed COM. Mostly, it seems to be the true "Vista done right" one of the original goals for Vista was to make it completely .NET based- this didn't pan out due to compatibility concerns and development time.
Considering that Vista Promised this, and more, it's not unreasonable to make the logical leap that all of this will not be delivered as stated.
it's a completely and utter waste of time to theorize or even research unreleased products; since all the information you can find consists entirely of half-truths based themselves on observations by reporters who have very little true tech experience. It's a dilution of the true facts with both assumptions and outright lies to sell magazines/newspapers.
