Microsoft next os after windows 8

But i hope the new is more secure. Whether that is true or not, and whether it will be called Windows 9, has yet to be said. Post by zacker » Wed Apr 27, am i think they might make an os for tablets but the desktop OSes are probably gonna stay Windows. Post by zamadatix » Wed Apr 27, am How about we sort through rumors we have about this version of Windows before creating more for the next. They should go back to using abstract product names like they did with Vista and XP.

Post by DeFacto » Wed Apr 27, pm if they start from scratch, it would be a total failure. That's why they won't do it. Post by spunker88 » Wed Apr 27, pm They used years and numbers before. It was really only XP and Vista that broke that mold. People criticize the chaotic Vista and Microsoft wants to make it simple. Windows 8 and 9 and so on is okay, but they should not use years. Windows sounds In my opinion "Microsoft Windows" is a brilliant name.

How do you want to call it? Bluescreens are removed, so Bluescreen 8. Post by ElliotFriend » Wed Apr 27, pm The rumor that I heard was that Windows supposedly starting with 8 was going to try and move more in a universal OS direction, one that could work on a tablet, laptop, and PC.

That way, you could have your same desktop environment no matter which device you're using. Would be nice, I think! There could be a unified developer portal, allowing developers to submit apps for both platforms before the actual store materializes, I'm hearing. The thinking is these will be one by Spring Because it tends to be easier to take a "smaller" OS and add to it than to take a larger one and remove features from it, it's likely that the Windows Phone OS is the one on top of which the new operating systems group will build.

The recent rumor courtesy of Windows SuperSite's Paul Thurrott about the Windows Phone OS being modified to support 7 to inch screen sizes makes sense in this context. It wouldn't surprise me if by Microsoft calls whatever is powering smartphones, phablets and tablets plain-old Windows, given the interfaces, the development platforms and the core operating systems will continue to align further.

If my tipster is correct, Spring — which means calendar Q2 or so for those not in our hemisphere — is looking like the new preferred time for bigger OS releases from Microsoft, at least in the near term. Again, to be clear, this is all rumor though a well-sourced one at this point.

Lots of things may change between now and Spring Developers are in short supply. Here are the skills and programming languages employers need. Friday, January 14, Asif Ahmed - Nov 29, Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. By Asif Ahmed. Must Read. Featured Asif Ahmed - Jan 13, Because we're not building an incremental Windows, the new Windows is Windows That new way of doing things is what Microsoft calls Windows as a Service. That's a slightly confusing name — it doesn't mean that Windows is moving to be a cloud version of an operating system.

There won't be a Windows 11 that only runs when you're online, or has nothing but a browser like Chrome OS. In fact there probably won't be a Windows 11 at all — just new updates that add extra features to Windows without changing the name. Some of those will come month by month, others will be collected into larger updates that bring multiple features at once. The first of these is planned for this autumn, adding features to the Edge browser like syncing favourites between machines and giving business versions of Windows the Enterprise Data Protection file containers for security.

Then there will be another major update a year later. And no, you won't have to start paying a subscription to get those after the first year — Microsoft has had to change the way it does the accounting reports for Windows 10 revenue because of the new update model, but that doesn't mean it's going to charge for those updates.

That's why when you ask the Windows team if a specific option is in Windows 10 , the answer is usually "not currently" rather than no.