Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge
>> Monday, December 14, 2009
Windows 7 and its server complement, Windows Server 2008 R2, were released to manufacturing in late July. By late August, Microsoft’s Windows client unit already was turning the crank on Windows 8 client and server.
As soon as Microsoft releases the final bits of a new Windows release to manufacturing — and often before — plenty of users’ thoughts turn to what’s next.
Stephen Chapman, a tech enthusiast who runs the UX Evangelist site, has been beating the bushes for a few months now for Windows 8 information. They recently unearthed some of job profiles of folks who have worked on and are working on various elements which may or may not make it in to the final Windows 8 release.
Anders Vindberg, a Microsoft Technical Fellow in Microsoft’s Management and Services division — a “Big Brains” interview with whom I’ll be posting soon — acknowledged that planning sessions were well underway for Windows 8. And of the 12 working groups created, “eight or nine revolve around management.” (Back in April of this year, Microsoft was seeking developers interested in working on some of these management features and enhancements to Distributed File System Replication for Windows 8.)
They also found a reference to more tweaks that Microsoft is making around kernel patch protection, by PatchGuard. Chapman blogged that, based on what they unearthed, “PatchGuard is apparently going to make life even a small more difficult for hackers (and anti-virus companies as well, perhaps).”
Chapman found listings regarding tweaks being made to the Hibernate/Resume/Integration programming interface “that can integrate and utilize the new TLZ file compression engine.” (I’m not sure what TLZ means here. I found a reference to TLZ as a file extension for Tar (.TAR) file compressed with LZMA (.LZMA) file compression “most commonly used on Unix systems.”)
I’ve seen a few Windows 8 references out there focused around the server version that mention new functionality Microsoft is working on to make Windows 8 Server an even stronger datacenter operating system. That dovetails with Microsoft’s slow but steady push toward offering customers not a public-cloud hosting capability, but and a private two. For Microsoft, a private cloud will revolve around Windows Server. Some of the features/functionality developed by the Windows Azure operating system (Red Dog) team will undoubtedly find their way back in to future iterations of Windows Server.
Things are happening on the Windows 8 Server front, . It seems that the Dublin application server that Microsoft has been readying might find its way in to Windows 8 Server, based on another online resume Chapman found. (Microsoft officials said last year that the grand plan for Dublin was to integrate it in to Windows Server, but seldom said when.)
It’s still early. Windows 8 is unlikely to debut until 2011, at the earliest, given the way Microsoft is delivering Windows releases these days. I’ll be interested as to how Microsoft execs characterize Windows 8, given they decided to deem Windows 7 a “major” release and Windows Server 2008 R2 a “minor” two.
Somebody else hearing any scuttlebutt yet on Windows 8? What are you hoping gets included in the next Windows client and server releases?
As soon as Microsoft releases the final bits of a new Windows release to manufacturing — and often before — plenty of users’ thoughts turn to what’s next.
Stephen Chapman, a tech enthusiast who runs the UX Evangelist site, has been beating the bushes for a few months now for Windows 8 information. They recently unearthed some of job profiles of folks who have worked on and are working on various elements which may or may not make it in to the final Windows 8 release.
Anders Vindberg, a Microsoft Technical Fellow in Microsoft’s Management and Services division — a “Big Brains” interview with whom I’ll be posting soon — acknowledged that planning sessions were well underway for Windows 8. And of the 12 working groups created, “eight or nine revolve around management.” (Back in April of this year, Microsoft was seeking developers interested in working on some of these management features and enhancements to Distributed File System Replication for Windows 8.)
They also found a reference to more tweaks that Microsoft is making around kernel patch protection, by PatchGuard. Chapman blogged that, based on what they unearthed, “PatchGuard is apparently going to make life even a small more difficult for hackers (and anti-virus companies as well, perhaps).”
Chapman found listings regarding tweaks being made to the Hibernate/Resume/Integration programming interface “that can integrate and utilize the new TLZ file compression engine.” (I’m not sure what TLZ means here. I found a reference to TLZ as a file extension for Tar (.TAR) file compressed with LZMA (.LZMA) file compression “most commonly used on Unix systems.”)
I’ve seen a few Windows 8 references out there focused around the server version that mention new functionality Microsoft is working on to make Windows 8 Server an even stronger datacenter operating system. That dovetails with Microsoft’s slow but steady push toward offering customers not a public-cloud hosting capability, but and a private two. For Microsoft, a private cloud will revolve around Windows Server. Some of the features/functionality developed by the Windows Azure operating system (Red Dog) team will undoubtedly find their way back in to future iterations of Windows Server.
Things are happening on the Windows 8 Server front, . It seems that the Dublin application server that Microsoft has been readying might find its way in to Windows 8 Server, based on another online resume Chapman found. (Microsoft officials said last year that the grand plan for Dublin was to integrate it in to Windows Server, but seldom said when.)
It’s still early. Windows 8 is unlikely to debut until 2011, at the earliest, given the way Microsoft is delivering Windows releases these days. I’ll be interested as to how Microsoft execs characterize Windows 8, given they decided to deem Windows 7 a “major” release and Windows Server 2008 R2 a “minor” two.
Somebody else hearing any scuttlebutt yet on Windows 8? What are you hoping gets included in the next Windows client and server releases?
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