Win8 no patch package Windows Blue or early arrival

Author: Zhou Pu

Recently, in a Microsoft software product roadmap exposure, presumably this roadmap produced in the summer of 2012, mainly on Windows, Windows Server, Office, SQL, Visual Studio product. The figure shows that Win8 system does not have SP1 patch package, which may prove that Microsoft will launch Windows version after Win8 — — Windows Blue.
Microsoft Product Roadmap

The products included in this chart are: Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 (Windows Server 8) and SP1, SQL Server 2012 and SP1/R2, Office 15 (Office 2013) And Office 16, Visual Studio 11 (Visual Studio 2012) and VS15, Exchange 2013 and 2016.

Of course, some of the information displayed on the roadmap is not accurate. The figure shows that Windows Server 2012 SP1 will be released before 2014, but this information is wrong, because Microsoft confirmed in October 2012 that Windows Server 2012 will not have SP1.

Office 16, Exchange 16 will be released in early 2015; SQL Server 2012 R2 will be released in the first half of 2014; Visual Studio 15 will be released in early 2014

As you can see from the roadmap Microsoft is not prepared to release Windows 8 SP1, which is consistent with Windows Server 2012, which verifies the identity of Windows Blue from the side. It was previously rumored that Windows Blue will be released six months later.