New Windows Coming In Late September -- But Which One?

snydeq (1272828) writes "Nobody seems to know for sure whether 'Threshold' and 'Windows 9' will be one and the same or separate operating systems, reports Woody Leonhard in his roundup of insights on Microsoft's forthcoming OS plans, expected September 30. 'Many people think the terms are synonymous, but longtime Chinese leaker Faikee continues to maintain that they are two separate products, possibly headed in different directions. Neowin Senior Editor and Columnist Brad Sams appears to have access to the most recent test builds, possibly on a daily basis. He doesn't talk about details, but the items he's let drop on the Neowin forum leave an interesting trail of crumbs.' Either way, the next iteration of Windows will have a lot to say about the kind of Microsoft to expect as Satya Nadella cements his leadership over the flagship OS."

Comments

Re:Which means...

[i kan reed]

Hey, that's unfair. It could be that Microsoft has some new trend they're blindly jumping on without respect to how well its paradigms work on desktop computers.

Instead of "tablet with a mouse: the OS" we could get a version of windows explorer navigated by playing flappy bird.

its rather simple, really.

[nimbius]

You see, the next windows will be modelled after the successful launch of Vista. Threshhold will be released in 32,768 independent varieties in order to suck up every possible demographic for a ride on the microsoft money choo choo. one version will contain a golden ticket, in which the buyer is automatically invited to redmond to see the hideous chocolate factory responsible for the mere idea of the windows operating system.

Windows 9 will be the finest windows ever released, that is, to the untrained eye. In fact its simply a cleverly reskinned copy of Ubuntu with a systemd service that occasionally brands you a felon and contests the genuine authenticity of your OS.

Re:New Windows every year...

[ArcadeMan]

Or they could use the Firefox and Chrome release cycle, which means three new versions every week.

Re:i just gave exactly zero fucks

[MrKaos]

Thank god for not saying "could care less".

I could care less but it's too much effort.

Which one? I know

[wonkey_monkey]

New Windows Coming In Late September -- But Which One?

September 2014, of course.