Windows blue will take place

Windows blue will take place

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Minutia of Windows azure, Microsoft's next-generation replacement for Windows 8, have leaked ahead of a rumored launch date in August this year.

While Windows 8 only became accessible to purchase in November last year, Windows Blue is evidently due to launch in August - but it won't be an solely new functioning scheme. The rapid launch is rather than a answer to competitor Apple's frequent updates to its own OS, which sees incremental versions commenced every year; while OS X itself is now close to 12 years old.

Windows azure, then, is asserted to be the transition merchandise to a more OS X-like release agenda for Microsoft. Rather than keeping all the alterations for foremost OS releases every couple of years, Microsoft is expected to move to an annual release cycle in order to more rapidly develop its operating scheme and better compete with apple fruit.

The first signs as to what to anticipate from Windows azure have leaked courtesy of Win8China, which assertions that the functioning scheme won't be spectacularly distinct from Windows 8. While there will be a couple of modifications to the user interface, encompassing improvements to the way the new 'Charms' scheme functions, the biggest alterations have been made under the hood: a new version of the Windows kernel, the heart of the functioning system, provides performance improvements and a asserted drop in power utilisation, while the display engine allows for better climbing in Metro apps on high-resolution displays.

According to the site, Windows Blue will strike Release To constructing (RTM) rank in June, ahead of a planned retail launch in July. Interestingly, Windows azure is claimed to be a free improvement for Windows 8 owners - an enhancement over Apple's cut-price OS upgrades, and one that puts Windows azure as more of a service bag upgrade than an solely new functioning scheme.

Microsoft has not commented on what it recounts as an unannounced merchandise, but leaked internal documentation - including a job posting for a client know-how designer, since taken from the company's location - confirm numerous of China's details.