A recent blog post from the product manager of the Windows Update team might have given us some incite into what to expect in the next versions of Windows. In his blog post (that has now be withdrawn) he make some interesting comments.

next version will be something completly different from what folks usually expect

The article also goes on to say that internally at Microsoft they are NOT refereeing to the next version of windows as Windows 8 but instead they call it

Windows.Next

This could be the best indication so far that the next version of Windows will be based on the Midori OS project that Microsoft have been working on since 2003. Midori has a completely re-written kernel from the ground up that is suppose to be a written almost entirely in managed code.

While this should not mean much to end users it means that Microsoft will be able to make a complete break from the legacy code that has been in Windows for the past 2 decades. The importance for this break with legacy code recently became highlighted when Microsoft recently released a patch to fix a security issues that was 17 years old.

Previously such a big changes the OS was not possible but with the release of XP Mode and other virtualisation technologies with Windows 7 backwards compatibility may no longer be an issues.

What ever the new version of Windows will be like it is unlikely that we will get any official confirmation until Microsoft are really sure they can deliver what they promise.

See the cached version of the post here (via TheWindowsClub )

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