Completed the development of Windows 7, are already putting on the table early speculation about how it will be the successor to this, for the time has come to be called Windows 8. Virtualization and integration with online services could be enhanced two points regarding the current version.

While it will still not selling in stores or pre-installed on our computers until October 22, the date on which Windows 7 will be available to the general public, is already thinking about his successor. As quoted in a previous article, if Microsoft is working on two new versions of its operating systems simultaneously, so that once the development of the successor to Vista, we can ask is known about the longer term future of the family Microsoft operating system.

Well the truth is that little or nothing is known, but of course something has been speculated. It is likely that one of the technologies that improves the virtualization is enabling desktop machines to isolate the execution of programs in memory, similar to what Google will also make the new OS and that Chrome will also increase security of all the operating system in general, and that thereafter the creators of viruses (virii) must find two holes simultaneously (one in the program and another in the virtual machine that houses it) to access some kind of control over the machine .

Microsoft should consider every day a greater number of platforms with its particular characteristics each of them depending on the type of machines that are targeted. Thus, while one can expect the evolution of Intel Atom chips to multi-core structures of two or even four cores, desktop processors will continue their evolution from the current two or four cores to eight or sixteen of a future not very far away, probably when windows overlooking the nose 8. This will cause the successor to Windows 7 must be adapted to a wide variety of architectures, from the strongest possible until a new generation of micro devices for even smaller netbooks that, computers or ultra-low price, less than 100 Euros.

The online services are the future that is already present. Chrome OS is geared towards them, and it is likely that Windows 8 is already looking toward a greater empathy with the next generation of Microsoft’s own Live, which will undoubtedly enhance increasingly to deal with the colossus of the browser .

The transition from 32 to 64 bits are being done slowly and heavily. Windows 8 might be a very significant step forward, giving greater importance to its 64-bit version and forcing manufacturers and integrators to migrate its massive machinery to the new architecture. With Windows 7 will still not be that long-awaited massive leap, but in the coming months in which this system is the cornerstone of Microsoft, this architecture will expand its market presence.

However, we will not see a radical break with the 32 bits to the “Apple-style” cut and limit support only to products previously available. Back in Windows 95 and 98 survived long 16-bit code inherited from Windows 3.x, and we do not refer to the command line of MS-DOS, but the system libraries. Perhaps the beginning of the end of the 32-bit version starts beyond Windows 8, which could already start to call Windows 9.

The user interface will probably change at some point, but at the moment it is impossible to say anything about it. Most likely the first versions add a few internal changes on the interface used by 7 in view of the expected influences on the medium-term future will come from mobile devices (an area where Apple innovated with the interface multitáctil , which then proceeded to desktop computers) or other trends.

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