{"id":8199,"date":"2010-10-26T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"windows-8-planned-for-release-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/8199-windows-8-planned-for-release-in-2012","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 planned for release in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 has been out for just over a year, and naturally, Microsoft is already planning its next major operating system release. According to a Microsoft release <a href=\"http:\/\/msftkitchen.com\/2009\/11\/windows-8-more-roadmaps.html\" target=\"_blank\">roadmap<\/a>, its next major release is scheduled for 2012, and is tentatively being called Windows 8.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 managed to restore our faith in Microsoft, after the mess that was Windows Vista. Although it was technically a release update, it managed to fix &nbsp;many of the flaws that plagued Vista. With Windows 8 being billed as a major release, we can expect a more thorough reworking of the current operating system structure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, will it be able to pull the majority of users over from Windows 7, considering just how well it has been received.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fudzilla.com\/images\/stories\/2010\/October\/General_News\/windows8roadmap.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"windows8roadmap\" width=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft release roadmap puts Windows 8 3 years after Windows 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}