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Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year
MrSeb writes "Way back in August, three months before the release of Windows 8, we learned about the existence of a project at Microsoft codenamed Blue. At the time it wasn't clear whether this was Windows 9, or some kind of interim update/service pack for Windows 8. Now, if unnamed sources are to be believed, Windows Blue is both of those things: a major update to Windows 8, and also the beginning of a major shift that will result in a major release of Windows every 12 months — just like Apple's OS X. According to these insiders, Blue will roll out mid-2013, and will be very cheap — or possibly even free, to ensure that 'Windows Blue [is] the next OS that everyone installs.' Exact details are still rather vague, but at the very least Blue will make 'UI changes' to Windows 8. The sources also indicate that the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 SDKs will be merged or standardized, to further simplify the development of cross-platform apps. Perhaps more important, though, is the shift to a 12-month release cadence. Historically, Microsoft has released a major version of Windows every few years, with the intervening periods populated with stability- and security-oriented service packs. Now it seems that Microsoft wants to move to an OS X-like system, where new and exciting features will be added on an annual basis. In turn, Microsoft will drop the price of these releases — probably to around $25, just like OS X."
Big companies have got to hate paying the Microsoft tax every couple of years when MS stops supporting an OS. They have to purchase new licenses and often new hardware. Why don't the fortune 1000 get together and turn Ubuntu into something they can all use?
No sigs in BETA. Beta SUCKS.
Ok here it goes and somebody has to spill the beans on Microsoft: I know I have talked with Upper Management.
Microsoft managment thinks the Singularity (http://www.kurzweilai.net/) is where it is at. They don't even intend to try to make a living past about 2020-2024 time frame. They figure they are out of business and thus they are maximizing their profits from their existing inventory.
As of this time the only entities continuing to be married to Microsoft are Government and their Contractors. Nobody else can or even wants to afford Microsoft. The proliferation of Android machines proves this to the limit.
The upshot of all of this is that Microsoft will do anything to force a new software license onto the end users it can do. Value to the customer be hanged they want a license fee every year. Anyone who hangs onto Microsoft is hanging onto the Titanic while it sinks. You are going to drown. The only way you can survive is to get your documents and business into a platform independent server based format. The game is over for everything else. Within a few months the Windows OS moving to Windows 9 will be so incompatable with the existing software inventory that if you are Government it will halt your mission. This is a danger especially to the US Armed Forces who depend highly on Microsoft platforms. This is a threat to the safety and security of the USA.
Anyone who delays or avoids dealing with this is sticking his head in the sand and is also a complacent threat to the safety and security of the USA and for that matter any other home nation in the world working on Microsoft stuff.
Now the problem stems from the facts of the Singularity and the complete lack of vision that people have regarding the fact that a whole new world is rising. They see the death of the old system as a threat to them. They do not see the benefits and good of the new. There is very shortly coming a world in which not one single human being needs to do any work as it will be done by a robot. This is well under way. The issue here is to get ready for the new world and to quit trying to live in the old one. This is much of why the Republican Party lost the presidential election because the world of hard work boot strap yourself up ideals is over and most so in the cities. Of course it is going to be a sledgehammer blow to the brain for Democrats who wake up and learn that their party is even further out of date. Take no solace in your victory Democrats the issues have left you too!
No, most people don't. Are you fucking kidding me?
Most people buy a new PC less often than a car, unless it can be avoided. Or do you not understand technology? people hold onto the oldest shit that still works at the minimum requirements, forever. Early adopters are important but a very small group.