Last month, the Windows Live Movie Maker team made a blog post with a status update on what’s been happening to Movie Maker. To give you a recap, in the post Mike Torres offered some glimpses of what to expect from the new version, including more rich-editing capabilities (more transitions, trim, split, multiple soundtracks), “some sort of a timeline”, and a simple interface that would “allow more experienced people to go deeper when they need to”.

Microsoft is finally ready to release Windows 7 RTM build, but i have noticed that in backstage MSFT is also cooking Windows 8 which is in Pre-Alpha stage.

From the secret source, I have collected Screenshots and Bild tags. The build tags looks promising after having eyes to the screenshots attached below.

build tags of Windows 8 Pre-Alpha bits.
Windows 8 Pre-Alpha build 7302
Windows 8 Pre-Alpha build 7304
Windows 8 Pre-Alpha build 7308
Windows 8 Pre-Alpha build 7312

A Graphical User Interface (GUI for short) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a user friendly way.

Over the years a range of GUI’s have been developed for different operating systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windowsamiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and more.

We’ll be taking a look at the evolution of the interface designs of the major operating systems since the 80’s.

Dear Microsoft,

Congratulations on recently releasing the Windows 7 release candidate. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s shaping into an excellent product and I have given my reasons why I think people should upgrade.

Microsoft: Windows 8 Major Improvements Beginning Soon

Microsoft is gearing up to debut what it referred to as major improvements for Windows 8, designed to take file access in branch offices to the next level. Even if Windows 7 is still in pre-RC stage, with the Escrow for the Win 7 Release Candidate, Build 7077, out the door, Microsoft has already confirmed that it is looking past the next iteration of Windows. The focus on branch office scenarios related to file access simply comes to offer official confirmation that the Redmond company’s strategy for Windows client and server platforms stretches well over Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, even though the two operating system releas… [read more >>]

Windows 7 Release Candidate is at most a couple of months away, with April 2009 as deadline, while the RTM could be reached within half a year, as early as August, but Microsoft is looking beyond the next iteration of the Windows platform. That’s right, Windows 8 is already cooking over in Redmond, with the software giant having kicked off the development process of Windows 7′s successor even last year, in 2008. Of course, Microsoft will only admit to the fact that it is in the planning stages of Windows 8, and with the Windows 7 work in full swing as the operating system moves from Beta to Release Candidate and onward, planning sounds just about right.