Windows 9 preview targeting a Q2 2015 release

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/19/2014 08:26 AM | source: | 78 comment(s)

Windows 9, codename Threshold, is rumored for an April 2015 release date. This information is known and comes from Paul Thurrott, a well-known Microsoft insider. Now, according to a new rumor, Microsoft will offer a preview version of the new operating system sometime around February of 2015. Similar to the Developer Preview or Consumer Preview of Windows 8, Microsoft is rumored to offer a public preview build of Windows 9 sometime between Q2 or Q3 of 2015 (around February or March of 2015.

This will gives consumers a chance to play with the new operating system before it's official release. This information comes from a leaker by the name of "Faikee," who was recently responsible for dropping the Windows 365 name, along with other tidbits.

The bigger question is what Windows 9 will bring to the table in terms of features. We would expect to see some integration of Cortana and naturally the Start menu will be present too. Expect the Modern UI to get updated as well but the degree of those changes are not clearly known at this time.

I think there is a possibility there will be no Windows 9, instead the next version of Windows could be Windows 8.2. I have a feeling Microsoft wants to follow Mac OSX scheme of updates. I would personally actually like if Microsoft came out with Windows 8.2 and sold it for $29.00. Then again, if Microsoft left the Windows 8 name behind and released Windows 9, it would bring positive reception.

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Extraordinary
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#4831007 Posted on: 06/02/2014 01:00 AM

The only BSoD I ever had with ME was from a sound card driver....coincidentally, it was a Sound Blaster card. Replaced the sound card and problem solved.

Mine was just an old P133 machine iirc, everything was onboard (Actually I seem to remember something about ISA slots and soundcards.... long long time ago

Vaguely remember building an 800MHz Duron machine after that, might have also used ME on there, seem to remember installing 2000 on it, so chances are it was also an ME machine at some point

Windows RG

http://www.deanliou.com/winrg/WinRG2.htm

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#4831066 Posted on: 06/02/2014 05:07 AM

http://www.deanliou.com/winrg/WinRG2.htm

Mine was a K7 Athlon 500mhz with a Diamond Stealth III S540 Extreme and 512mb ram with some Sound Blaster card.

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#4831087 Posted on: 06/02/2014 06:30 AM

I never had an issue with WinME. I ran it on 3 different computers. Never had a problem with Vista either. After almost 20 years, I still fail to see where Win95 was an improvement over Win3.1. It was, for the most part, unstable as hell. It would randomly BSoD for no reason. Nothing like typing a 20 page research paper to get a BSoD from trying to print.... Windows3.1 and Dos..."just worked".

(Consumer version of) Windows wasn't even an actual operating system until XP..... Win95a, 95b, 95c, 95d, 98, 98se and ME all ran on top of Dos.

I was giving my experience with the different versions of Windows I have personally used.

I only ever ran into D3D / OpenGL / display driver issues in Win 95, apart from that I had no issues with it and the main improvements came in the multitasking (something 3.1 didn't do very well) & networking areas.

"Consumer versions" of Windows have been split out since 3.1, the "business version" used to be Windows for Workgroups (which included network protocols not included in 3.1) which later became NT.

ME used to BSOD constantly on my P3 (i think it was a P3, i still have the box somewhere in the garage) even doing the most basic of things MYOB, MS Works, Internet, etc. Upgraded the same PC to Win XP and all the issues magically went away.

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