Ballmer: 500 new Windows Phone ’07 features; Windows 8 coming in 2012 for PCs, tablets

“Microsoft in the same Japanese Developer Forum speech that revealed 500 Windows Phone feature adds also confirmed persistent beliefs that Windows 8 would ship next year,” Electronista reports.

“The ‘next generation of Windows systems’ was coming out in 2012, the CEO said,” Electronista reports. “He also referred to it as Windows 8 by name and made it clear that tablets would be a core part of the platform.”

“As we progress through the year, you ought to expect to hear a lot about Windows 8,” he added. “Windows 8 slates, tablets, PCs, a variety of different form factors.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Haven’t we already had enough predictions of the apocalypse this year?

47 Comments

  1. This is hilarious…. so who’s going to release winders 88???? M/S, nokiasoft? microskype?? Chrysler??

    Balmer’s flying monkeys seem to be slamming into every building they can find… what a troop of losers…

  2. MS just talks about what they’re gonna do – next year. Apple rarely talks about what they’re gonna do – everybody else does (iPhone 5 This Fall? etc. etc.).

    Apple never talked about iPad 2, ‘frinstance. They just released it. Apple delivers products, not fantasy talk.

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