"Threshold" to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015

[aritra2116]

At the BUILD developer conference in April 2014, Microsoft will discuss its vision for the future of Windows, including a year-off release codenamed "Threshold" that will most likely be called Windows 9. Here's what I know about the next major release of Windows.

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"Threshold" to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015 | Windows 8 content from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows

 

[techtitan100]

hear we go again another operating system that wilkl be a big flop just like Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, not interested in either

 

[pbcopter]

hear we go again another operating system that wilkl be a big flop just like Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, not interested in either

I wonder how many said that when Microsoft announced Windows 7?

 

[Golden]

Cool, looking forward to see what Windows 9 looks like.

 

[LMiller7]

hear we go again another operating system that wilkl be a big flop just like Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, not interested in either

I wonder how many said that when Microsoft announced Windows 7?

And not only Windows 7.

12 years later it is often forgotten that when XP was introduced it was far from being an overwhelming success. It was in fact much criticized by industry "experts", some of whom no doubt expected it to be a flop. See this article by Ed Bott for more:
Remembering Windows XP's early days | ZDNet

 

[z3r010]

XP pre SP1 was a dog, it made 98 look stable

 

[Jacee]

Cool, looking forward to see what Windows 9 looks like.

Me too!

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Although I plan of staying with Win 7 until sometime in 2019, I'm also looking forward to Win 9 just to see if M$ comes to their senses and realize that their "vision" isn't what people want or need. That would give me hope that M$ will have a decent OS by the time I'm ready to leave Win 7.

 

[Lebon14]

Windows 9 kind of lit a torch of hope for me. Maybe Win9 will be the OS I'll migrate AND recommand to people around. With the Start Menu comeback and if they redesign it, I just hope that they won't screw it up.

 

[gaz]

Blahh

I ended up going back too Windows 7, still can't beat it?

 

[YoYo155]

hear we go again another operating system teatime of wilkl be a big flop just like Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, not interested in either

Statistically speaking, Windows 9 should be great according to the one on one off Microsoft have been having over the years...

 

[ThrashZone]

Never say never about win-8.1
Nine might make it look wintastic

 

[MilesAhead]

I ended up going back too Windows 7, still can't beat it?

I don't know what the hurry is. Vista PCs seemed to hang on the shelves forever at Best Buy. I kept putting off buying waiting for the SP1 preload. Finally I giae up and bought one. Like a month later SP1 comes out and won't go on the thing. I buy a 64 bit Vista SP1 PC. Windows 7 comes out. Fine. I like the Taskbar progressbar thingy, jump lists etc. So before even an SP2 they dump it for W8. Same deal again. One service pack and out.

It seems like a lot of churning, except for the fact the looks and features decline instead of improve. The technical improvement I see is GPT. Seems like they could have stuck that onto W7 SP2 if they wanted. But then no up front cash from current users.

 

[TanyaC]

Although I plan of staying with Win 7 until sometime in 2019, I'm also looking forward to Win 9 just to see if M$ comes to their senses and realize that their "vision" isn't what people want or need. That would give me hope that M$ will have a decent OS by the time I'm ready to leave Win 7.

+1

What would be really great is if they put back Aero Glass and 80% of what they took out of 7 and 8..

Al'a ... List of features removed in Windows 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and List of features removed in Windows 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

oh, and did I mention Aero glass?

Sadly though, M$ doesn't generally suffer from "coming to their senses"...

 

[HAVOC]

They need to release two versions.
Windows 9 Desktop and Windows 9 Touch
Until this happens, anything else will be crap.

 

[Britton30]

They need to release two versions.
Windows 9 Desktop and Windows 9 Touch
Until this happens, anything else will be crap.

I've been saying that since my first glimpse of the toy-like Win 8 tile thing-a-ma-jig.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Although I plan of staying with Win 7 until sometime in 2019, I'm also looking forward to Win 9 just to see if M$ comes to their senses and realize that their "vision" isn't what people want or need. That would give me hope that M$ will have a decent OS by the time I'm ready to leave Win 7.

+1

What would be really great is if they put back Aero Glass and 80% of what they took out of 7 and 8..

Al'a ... List of features removed in Windows 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and List of features removed in Windows 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

oh, and did I mention Aero glass?

Sadly though, M$ doesn't generally suffer from "coming to their senses"...

Odd as it may seem, I never liked Aero glass and have it shut off on both of my Win 7 machines. However, the UI formerly known as Metro is the opposite extreme and is equally distasteful to me.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

They need to release two versions.
Windows 9 Desktop and Windows 9 Touch
Until this happens, anything else will be crap.

It can even be one version with a choice of UI. But expecting one UI to work well with both desktop and touch is unrealistic.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

They need to release two versions.
Windows 9 Desktop and Windows 9 Touch
Until this happens, anything else will be crap.

I've been saying that since my first glimpse of the toy-like Win 8 tile thing-a-ma-jig.

 

[HAVOC]

We can only hope, now that Ballmer is gone.