Microsoft boss, and part-time shouting enthusiast, Steve Ballmer has let slip a few choice details about the next generation of Windows. No, not Windows 7. Windows Cloud, and Windows Midori.
Speaking in London, Ballmer said Windows Cloud is still a temporary name for the software.
“We need a new operating system designed for the cloud and we will introduce one in about four weeks, we’ll even have a name to give you by then. But let’s just call it for the purposes of today ‘Windows Cloud’,” he said.
“Just like Windows Server looked a lot like Windows but with new properties, new characteristics and new features, so will Windows Cloud look a lot like Windows Server.”
So its server-side software, designed to help us run Internet applications, like Facebook, Google Docs and the like? Seems so. But Ballmer’s not to happy with Google at the moment.
“If you talk to Google they’ll say it’s thin client computing but then they’ll issue a new browser that’s basically a big fat operating system designed to compete with Windows but running on top of it,” he said, commenting on Google’s new Chrome browser.
And the next, next-generation of Windows? Ballmer says it’s dubbed Midori, but is still super-secret. “The guy in the office next door to somebody working on Midori is not supposed to know about Midori,” he said, but admitting that “Our big problem is there’s just no secret that gets kept in Microsoft.”
Sounds like we’ll hear a lot more about Midori soon then!
TBC | £TBC | Microsoft (via The Register)
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