Microsoft Now Recruiting for Windows 8

[tester24]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Of course AMD will need to keep getting access to Intel's licence. They can't build an x86 CPU with x86-64 extensions without Intel's licence, and Intel can only build an x86 CPU without AMD's x86-64 licence unless they work on their own implementation (which will fail because it's up against a mature implementation).[/citation]

Actually AMD owns the x86-64 rights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

 

[sonofliberty08]

maybe an update version of windows xp is good too ......

 

[shreeharsha]

Can it run Crysis!

 

[sidran32]

[citation][nom]sonofliberty08[/nom]maybe an update version of windows xp is good too ......[/citation]
That was called Windows Vista, and now Windows 7...

They retained the good of Windows XP and updated the old, outdated, unstable, and outmoded features. The perceived bad of Vista (which after SP2 is actually a decent OS) was actually extra features not related to the kernel, which is the heart of the OS.

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]tester24[/nom]Actually AMD owns the x86-64 rights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64[/citation]
I am well aware of that, however, if you read the very first line of that wiki you would see that x86-64 is merely an extension of x86. It can't exist without x86, so AMD still needs Intel's licence to build x86-64 CPUs.

 

[killerb255]

What I would like to see in Windows 8:

1) Completely rewritten code. No more NT code. No more 9x code. No more DOS code. Build it with security in mind from the ground up a la UNIX.

For legacy apps (which, in this scenario, would be everything, a la the switch from MAC OS9 to OSX), build on the XP Mode from Windows 7 and call it "Windows Legacy." If a Legacy Mode gets infected by a virus, it can be temporarily disabled and cleaned off from the outside-in without having to deal with locked files.

Of course Windows Legacy would have to have better 3d emulation to run games...

2) Go back to what Windows 98 did during its installation process/what Windows Server 2008 does with roles: Typical or Custom install and the ability to add Roles and Features later. For minimalists, components they don't want don't get installed this way. For the average Joe, they can have a fair amount of extra stuff. Any program installed to Windows 8 will prompt for requisite Roles/Features/Services and they would get installed either from a compressed .wim file or from the installation DVD.

3) Take Windows 7's jumplists and put them everywhere. No more taskbar, Start Menu, or anything like that. Get most places in 1-2 clicks. One Jumplist could be called General with what would normally be seen in Start -> Programs; while one could be called Drives with the drive letters; another could be called Internet with IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc. listed; and one could be called Windows Legacy with "Legacy 1 (DOS)," "Legacy 2 (9x)," "Legacy 3 (XP)" as choices.

4) 64-bit only, as others have said.