What can be expected of Windows 8

What is the most awaited release this year is the arrival of Microsoft’s Windows 8 that showed a glimpse last year with its Metro interface and was a source of attraction for the public and techies at the Consumer Electronic Show 2012, Las Vegas.

However, Microsoft is known for creating hype in pre-launches with the gismos it brings to its flagship operating system. The real juice comes in the original release and that where it makes or breaks the OS.

Truth be told, the history of Windows if full of such stories as a complete flop and disaster. The original release of Windows 98 was in a free fall at the launch in 1998. Later on it came to the horizon as one of the best operating systems, thanks to Windows 98 SE with a free Internet Explorer.

The case with Windows Vista reads the same story but in a different context. The operating system was hyped up as the trend making new software, on which Microsoft spent over six years in development. However, the time spent went to vain as the OS emerged as a complete disaster, forcing the company to release Windows 7, which regardless of being a contingency plan was a good operating system.

The new Windows 8 is a reply to the changing market trend as well. Due to increasing interest of the public in tablets and All-in-One desktops, the company has developed a touch-screen savvy operating system that is majorly inspired by Windows Phone 7 and Windows Media.

Microsoft is too anxious to release the new OS that anxiety could be measured by the fact the they are bringing a new file system into the fold that will replace Windows XP’s New Technology File System (NTFS) with Resilient File System (ReFS).

It is however, still amateur to state whether the operating system will be hot or not. Microsoft plans on releasing W8 in the latter half of calendar 2012 and with it are coming a host of new tablets and desktops.

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