The Next Microsoft Windows Operating System?

Microsoft recently released Windows 7 on Oct. 22, 2009 and the rumors for the Next Windows operating system have already started (Windows 8 / Windows.next). I'm still confused, but a Microsoft employee claims that it's the real deal. You be the judge.

Nearly four months after the release of Windows 7 (and its over 60 million copies sold) the internet is already buzzing with Windows 8 and now Windows.next rumors. Recently an anonymous blogger that allegedly works for Microsoft, sort of spilled the beans in an MSDN blog titled "What's in store for the next Windows?" by describing the next Windows operating system as being "different from what folks usually expect of Windows," and went on to call the next Windows operating system "Windows.next" (while most bloggers and rumor sites were calling it Windows 8).

Usually us techies wouldn't go off of random rumors by anonymous bloggers, but judging by the speed in which Microsoft quickly had the blog post purged from the internet, the pictures displayed of the next Windows project timeline, and the similar descriptions given by Microsoft's Regional Vice President John Mangelaars about Windows 8 ("Windows 8 will be mind-blowing"), it's safe to say that this blogger might have been the real deal and the next Windows operating system will be called Windows.next.

Windows.next is rumored to be released in 2012 and is still being called Windows 8 by rumor sites and bloggers, but soon you might be seeing the name Windows.next popping up all over the place. Whatever Windows.next has to offer has to be really mind-blowing and totally out of the realm of normal for someone to risk losing a cool job like working for Microsoft (and the judicial beatings that comes with leaking Microsoft's top secret info).

good ol' Google Cache for you). Regardless of if the anonymous blogger was real or fake, Microsoft is definitely working on their next operating system; and I can't wait to see what's in store for us PC lovers.