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Windows 9 preview targeting a Q2 2015 release

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/19/2014 08:26 AM | source: | 78 comment(s)
Windows 9 preview targeting a Q2 2015 release

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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Smikis
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#4820321 Posted on: 05/19/2014 12:49 PM
once you go windows 8, you never go back, people hate windows 8 same way they hated windows vista, even when vista was pretty much windows 7 in the end
But that just goes to show that first impression is everything

TheDeeGee
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#4820322 Posted on: 05/19/2014 12:50 PM
Why bring the start menu back? Its not needed... at all.


Because only 0.01% of the Desktop users like Metro.

lucidus
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#4820410 Posted on: 05/19/2014 03:48 PM
once you go windows 8, you never go back, people hate windows 8 same way they hated windows vista, even when vista was pretty much windows 7 in the end
But that just goes to show that first impression is everything

Neah, I still use 7 every day :P The older task manager and lack of the ribbon doesn't bother me at all ;)

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#4820440 Posted on: 05/19/2014 04:37 PM
once you go windows 8, you never go back, people hate windows 8 same way they hated windows vista, even when vista was pretty much windows 7 in the end
But that just goes to show that first impression is everything

Vista was pretty much Windows 7 in the end? :bonk:

HonoredShadow
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#4820466 Posted on: 05/19/2014 05:04 PM
once you go windows 8, you never go back, people hate windows 8 same way they hated windows vista, even when vista was pretty much windows 7 in the end
But that just goes to show that first impression is everything

You can't generalize for everyone like that. You're wrong in this case. I hate Windows 8 or 8.1 yet I have it ONLY because I can

(1) get rid of most of the Windows 8 stuff by using Classic Shell and
(2) Have better performance on Windows 8 than 7 especially in games like BF4.

Another thing I don't like about 8 is that you can't play certain old games like C&C.

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