Microsoft confirmed that Windows 8 was released in 2012.

Microsoft's 2009 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is over. Microsoft has provided beta versions of many products and releases, such as the release of Office2010Beta and January 1 next year. WindowsAzure was officially released, but Microsoft did not disclose much content about the next-generation operating system of Windows 7. However, a demo document at the conference officially confirmed the release date of its next-generation operating system for the first time.

According to Microsoft's product release roadmap, Windows 8 will be released sometime in 2012, which also follows the tradition of Microsoft releasing a new operating system every three years, like Vista and Windows7. release. Windows 7's next-generation operating system development code has been tentatively set to "Windows8", and its corresponding server version (perhaps WindowsServer2012) and WindowsServer2003/2008 will be used as a major release (MajorRelease) instead of WindowsServer2008R2 upgrade release (Release Update). .

In addition to the development code "Windows8" and release date framework, Microsoft did not disclose more information about Windows8. In September, Microsoft management and server department technician AndersVindberg confirmed that Microsoft has created 12 Windows8 development teams. In October, Microsoft senior research developer Robert Morgan first revealed Windows 8 128-bit architecture support, saying that his work is "research and development content including 1288 architecture compatibility of Windows8 kernel and Windows9 project, the main partners include Intel, AMD, HP and IBM. "