IT Consulting and Tech Support Companies will want to know about this. It’s not even two years since the Release of its Windows 7 operating system, and already Microsoft is showing off Windows 8, which should be released next year.

Here’s some information about Windows 8 that we found interesting in a recent Boston Globe article:

With a dramatic new user interface that supports an array of smartphone-like apps, Windows 8 is shaping up as the most radical rethink since Windows XP hit the shelves 10 years ago.

It’s most dramatic improvements are aimed at Windows users who presently don’t exist: those who might someday run Windows 8 on touch-controlled tablet computers. For the billion or so who now rely on a keyboard and mouse, I’m not quite sure Windows 8 is the change they’re waiting for.

What’s more is that Microsoft has published a preview version of the code for anybody to download and test. Check it out and let us know if you like it so far?

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