Windows 8 arriving in 2012

Microsoft will launch the successor of its Windows PC operating system next year, the company’s chief has revealed.

Steve Ballmer said at a press conference in Tokyo that the new operating system would be optimised for tablet devices, PCs and a variety of different form factors”.

Elsewhere in his speech, Ballmer referred to the next version of Windows as ‘Windows 8′ – a rumour that Microsoft PR has been keen to suffocate.

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