Three Wise Men

Dreaming of Windows 8

Not so long ago BigWhale wrote about Windows 7 RTM. Sure Windows 7 have some installation quirks, but which operating system does not have one or two of those? Some operating systems can live without the constant need for GUI updates. But not Windows. Their micro GUI developers are working hard. So hard that they have a new GUI concept ready even before Windows 7 accumulated some dust on the shelves. Now that is why I call ahead of time market.. – development.

If you want to see Microsoft dreaming machine in action read on and take a look at a possible future of Windows 8.

By looking at video I found out the following about Cullen and Mary. Cullen has a tendency to use Skype and μTorrent¹ and is an early bird. Creating a gazillion Word documents and occasionally a web page. Obviously he is a nature lover with pimped out laptop or notebook which contains his pictures, music, videos and more². He is constantly connecting to his friends computer. Strangely his name is Ben. Explorer on this desktop evolved into web browser … sorry is looking like a web page with lots of useful links and ingenious folder and document icons³. Sorting is done with new Windows subsystem which is similar to Rails on Windows technology. Icons are painted with Paint and animated using Silverlight technology.

Like all the people in this Universe he likes to watch TV Series … on his laptop or notebook. Currently he is a fan of Futurama series and understands a dead language⁴. His new operating system brings has an additional “My Something”. And a pimped out plugin that was available years ago for Firefox browser which is integrated into operating system⁵. Taskbar has totally animated icons. And can be moved independently of the Start icon⁶. But wait the best is yet to come. Start icon can be moved around⁷.

Mary is more private person. But I think she⁸ likes cats.

So Copenhagen Concept. A concept no doubt. I like the idea of Explorer evolving into a web browser. But to be able to run this GUI monstrosity I will probably need Dual Intel Octave processor with a tendency to high-end consumer graphics card which will probably use a minimum of 1GB of 3.56Gz memory for smooth transitions. Is that a users curse?

Image by 'smil via Flickr

And what about licensing? Will we get free Windows 8 operating system with payable update service? Probably not! We will surely get multiple choices of Professional, Home, Student, Ultimate, Unseen versions of Windows 8.

Every version will be packed with goodies of which normal user will probably use 10% + Solitaire. With clever marketing campaign titled “Deal me one” Microsoft will surely win over the Linux desktop distributions, like Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, openSUSE and others and once for all take over the desktop market.

I have already setup my banking account and will save precious euros to buy Windows 8⁹, but in the mean time I will wake up and install Linux – Ubuntu to be precise and see what the open source community has to offer.

1. to get a free version of Windows 9 RC1, no doubt [↩]
2. which he is unwilling share us [↩]
3. friendly to the visually impaired [↩]
4. Latain that is [↩]
5. beat this Open Source community [↩]
6. I mean that is some progress [↩]
7. now that is something I have been looking for a while [↩]
8. it is a female name? [↩]
9. have to make a better example for my children then Cullen [↩]

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