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Windows Blue is Microsoft's future low-cost OS with yearly updates
- mtgx 14y ago>"Once Windows Blue is released, the Windows SDK will be updated to support the new release and Microsoft will stop accepting apps that are built for Windows 8, pushing developers to create apps for Blue." What? They seem to want to piss off their developers more and more.
- CurtHagenlocher 14y agoI predict that the same people who are the most vocally annoyed at having to continue to support older versions of IE will be the ones who are most vocally annoyed at not being able to support older versions of "Blue". Disclaimer: Microsoft is my employer, but I know nothing NOTHING! about this plan. HOGAN!
- untog 14y agoIn all of the mess about Windows 8/WP8, sometimes you read something that brings reason to a lot of what they're doing. This is one of those moments. A yearly updated OS that is released simultaneously to desktop and phone is a great proposition. It's basically a more tightly-coupled version of what Apple does, and should pay dividends to people who create apps that span both mobile and desktop. Of course, it relies on the mobile efforts and Win8 gathering traction. We'll see.