We still rely mostly on rumors and hearsay when it comes to the development progress of the next version of Windows. Microsoft is keeping tight lipped, and will for some time. We estimate that the company will change their stance on this during the Build conference in September.
Latest news come from a post over at Winbeta which report that Microsoft has compiled build 8042 on July 7, with the string 8042.0.110707-1940. Build 8042 is a milestone 3 build which indicates that it is unlikely that Microsoft will release a public build of the operating system today at the Worldwide Partner Conference.
Our best educated guess at this point in time is that we will see a beta release during the Build conference in September, and maybe the release candidate or a second beta during next year’s CES in January. It was already confirmed that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will deliver the post-event keynote.
We know little about new features that Microsoft has added or improved since the last leaked version of the operating system. Ron over at Winbeta suggests that Microsoft has started integration of Windows Live into the Windows 8 builds, and that Microsoft is currently working on fixing bugs and adding code to the builds to update features that are already available but not finalized.
Microsoft has two months left to create the public Windows 8 beta release, ample time to resolve known issues and add the missing features to the operating system.
Another theory that we have heard is that Microsoft will offer a pre-beta in September, and the final beta in January 2012.
What’s your take on the development? Let us know in the comments.
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