[net-gold] COMPUTER: OPERATING SYSTEMS : BUSINESS: CORPORATIONS: NAMED CORPORATIONS: MICROSOFT: Windows 9 is Coming: Feels Like Windows Phone All Over Again

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:43:41 -0500 (EST)



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COMPUTER: OPERATING SYSTEMS :

BUSINESS: CORPORATIONS: NAMED CORPORATIONS: MICROSOFT:

Windows 9 is Coming: Feels Like Windows Phone All Over Again

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Windows 9 is Coming: Feels Like Windows Phone All Over Again

Summary: Windows 8.1 has only been out a short while and we're alreadyhearing how Windows 9 will be aimed at addressing low adoption. It'sbeginning to sound like Windows Phone.


By James Kendrick

for Mobile News |

January 13, 2014 -- 11:55 GMT (03:55 PST)

ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/windows-9-is-coming-feels-like-windows-phone-all-over-again-7000025055/


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A shorter URL for the above link:

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http://tinyurl.com/ljcogny

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It seems only a few months have passed since Windows 8.1 was released,probably because it was, and we're already hearing about 'Threshold'. Thisis the next big update for Windows that is going to solve all ofMicrosoft's problems with adoption of its OS.

Windows 9, as the next version is reported to be called, is no doubt apush to get more people to make the switch to the new Windows thatMicrosoft has so much riding on. The adoption to the current phase ofWindows hasn't been great, according to Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite.

"But Threshold is more important than any specific updates. Windows 8is tanking harder than Microsoft is comfortable discussing in public, andthe latest release, Windows 8.1, which is a substantial and free upgradewith major improvements over the original release, is in use on less than25 million PCs at the moment. That's a disaster, and Threshold needs tostrike a better balance between meeting the needs of over a billiontraditional PC users while enticing users to adopt this new Windows on newtypes of personal computing devices. In short, it needs to be everythingthat Windows 8 is not."

Microsoft isn't sharing information about Windows 9, but Thurrottspeculates that a windowed version of Metro will run on the desktop. I'mnot sure what to make of that if it becomes a reality. Many call for theelimination of the desktop to avoid the bipolar nature of Windows 8.Moving windowed Metro to the desktop seems backwards to me.

To be fair, Microsoft has done a great job with Windows 8.1. I even namedit the most significant tech of 2013 and I stand by that. I find it a goodlaptop OS and a decent tablet OS. The latter is probably most important.Make no mistake, Windows is now a play for the mobile market forMicrosoft. In spite of competition in the enterprise from the iPad andAndroid, Windows is still the favored platform there. The push thus needsto be in the mobile space which is why Microsoft has invested so mucheffort in the touch aspects of Windows.

What Microsoft doesn't need with Windows is to become known as the OSwhere the 'next version will be the big one'. That smacks of each versionnot being good enough, probably due to lack of big enough sales numbers.


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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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