A message posted on the MSDN blog and since retired from Microsoft, Windows 8 is very different from older versions of Windows.

Windows 8 will be very different

This was the product manager says working on Windows Update and do not give many specifics, but said that the next version of the operating system "will be something completely different from what users have the 'habit of waiting for Windows. He also praised Steven Sinofsky, project manager, who collects a lot of feedback from consumer groups and teams to design Microsoft Windows 8.

Windows 8 is still not finalized

Microsoft would in any case not yet finalized the features of its operating system. We know that Redmond will focus attention on Windows 8 this summer ( "Windows 8 priority in July 2010) and it is reasonable to expect by 2011 or 2012 (" Windows 8 scheduled for late 2011). The photo below cons is a screenshot of the original message saved in the Google cache.