In the context of the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) 2009, also a roadmap in circulation has come in addition to all kinds of information such as the first insights into the Internet Explorer 9 that – have vague information about the successor of Windows 7 which are known since the summer.

At that time the roadmap made the round for the first time, new information are not new in the meantime but. Nor advanced Microsoft on the PDC of the range of known data or gave scope for speculation, with the exception of code name “Windows 8″ lost Steven Sinofsky, President of Microsoft’s Windows Division, no word on the upcoming operating system. Windows 8 so in accordance with the roadmap at some point in the year 2012 appears, in which also a “major release” is planned in the next version of Windows Server is. If the timetable is adhered to, Microsoft remains the usual cycle as well after every three years a new desktop operating system appears as every four years a new Windows Server version, which gets an update after two years.