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Microsoft ditching Windows 8, plans to release Windows 9
- Aaronneyer 13y agoThis articles about a month old now. I'm curious if anything has changed with regards to this now that they have a new CEO.
- ck2 13y agoSheesh, now our OS releases are going to be like browser version numbers.
- axefrog 13y agoThe article has almost no information at all. The title contains about as much information as the rest of the article.
- hobolobo 13y agoMicrosoft saw Apple's ecosystem of inter-operating devices and the simple transition between using mobile and desktop devices and thought, 'We'd like some of that'. Windows 8 seemed to be about two things, making life easier for MS and pushing desktop/laptop users into familiarity with their mobile OS.
- nav1 13y ago>plans to release Windows 9 No way! Who knows, maybe they'll even release Windows 10 after that.
- brudgers 13y agoIf that was Microsoft's evil plan, surely they would have released a so called "Windows 7." What's next, ditching Internet Explorer 6?
- sentenza 13y agoThe truly smart move would be if they skipped the even numbers after 9. I know it's a superstition, but you have to realize that the superstition, since it does exist now, pre-inclines the users to hate the even versions.
- valevk 13y agoThe prophecy seems to fulfill itself: "every other version of windows is bad". I think people at Microsoft need more time to create a truly well-thought user experience. Maybe they should ditch their current release cycle and focus on: a) better updates for current windows versions b) take twice the time to realease a new windows version
- brudgers 13y agoWindows 8 is significantly better than Windows 7. Since it's almost exactly superset of Windows 7, this shouldn't be surprising. That Windows 9 looks likely as an October release - that's MicroSoft's Q1/2015 - it appears MicroSoft is tick-tocking Windows releases...Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9. They are already on a yearly cycle with many of their non-OS products.
- Roboprog 13y agoPeople don't seem to like the Win-8 UI, though.
- brudgers 13y agoI suspect that the vast majority of criticisms I read are from people who rarely, if ever, use Windows 8. Consider the "start button problem" everyone who actually uses Windows 8 has (by logical necessity) solved the problem...and whatever the problem existed, supposing one did, is gone from Windows 8.1 - a free upgrade released last summer. 8.1 also successfully addressed the legitimate criticism regarding better modal integration of Metro and Desktop metaphors. Most of the criticism of Windows 8 is generated in an echo chamber with a tradition of anti-Microsoft tribalism born in the dawn of the public commercial internet. Windows 8 introduces the replacement for a 40 year old WIMP metaphor and many people don't want change.
- danoprey 13y agoPower users who also disproportionately post on forums about things they dislike seem to dislike it but I'd bet there are a lot of normal users quietly getting on with it.
- Dirlewanger 13y agoCan you write a more crappy article? Holy shit. Why are people so surprised about Mircosoft's 3 year Windows release cycle that has existed since the 1990s???
- tmikaeld 13y agoHyperbole without any quote or reference..