What To Expect With Windows 9

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What To Expect With Windows 9

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @11:21AM from the solid-color-rectangles dept.

snydeq writes: Two weeks before the its official unveiling, this article provides a roundup of what to expect and the open questions around Windows 9, given Build 9834 leaks and confirmations springing up all over the Web. The desktop's Start Menu, Metro apps running in resizable windows on the desktop, virtual desktops, Notification Center, and Storage Sense, are among the presumed features in store for Windows 9. Chief among the open questions are the fates of Internet Explorer, Cortana, and the Metro Start Screen. Changes to Windows 9 will provide an inkling of where Nadella will lead Microsoft in the years ahead. What's your litmus test on Windows 9?

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Clippy 2.0 by BenSchuarmer · 2014-09-16 11:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Deal with it.
1. Re:Clippy 2.0 by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-16 11:37 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  People actually still use Windows?
2. Re:Clippy 2.0 by smittyoneeach · 2014-09-16 13:45 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "No," said Bob.
  
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Alternative Title by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-16 11:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Unballmering Windows
If it's not like Vista or 8.0 (Vista II)... by smagruder · 2014-09-16 11:33 · Score: 4, Funny

then it may be worth taking a serious look at. After all, MS seems to get every other major version right.

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Clippy sings a Beatles song by goombah99 · 2014-09-16 11:36 · Score: 4, Funny

Rather than creeping you out by peering over your shoulder waiting for you too blunder so he can offer unsolicited advice instead He just sits there and serenades you with the Beatles song "Number Nine" until ask him a question

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Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
1. Re:Clippy sings a Beatles song by Quantum+Apostrophe · 2014-09-16 12:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  " waiting for you too blunder "
  It appears you are trying to say "to"...
2. Re:Clippy sings a Beatles song by bankman · 2014-09-16 19:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  " waiting for you too blunder "
  
  It appears you are trying to say "to"...
  No, I think he was trying to say "U2"...
  
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  I feel so sig.
Re:Aero Or Go Home by thieh · 2014-09-16 11:45 · Score: 4, Funny

That's right, we already got "High Contrast" as the flat color theme.
Re:Haters gonna hate by CohibaVancouver · 2014-09-16 12:12 · Score: 3, Funny

You know what I love even more than than Win 8.1 on my Surface Pro 1? The side glances of envy from MacBook Air fanboys as they watch me use the touchscreen.

Downvote away haters, my karma can take it.
Re:Haters gonna hate by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-16 12:22 · Score: 4, Funny

That is not envy.... That confusion as to why that dork over there is trying to use a tablet as if it was a real computer.
Re:Haters gonna hate by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-16 12:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Windows 8.x
Cortana??? by istartedi · 2014-09-16 13:32 · Score: 4, Funny

Holy crap. First I've heard of Cortana. Googled it.. Is that for real??? It looks like Seven of Nine got fucked by Bob and this is the offspring. I can already see the protests from middle America. "Electronic boobies from Satan are sending us to Hell". How could anybody think that's a good idea?

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