Microsoft communications chief Frank Shaw said the company ready to talk
about how often windows might Windows might come out when we spoke to him in
January, but he agreed "you have certainly seen across a variety of our
products a cadence that looks like that; Windows Phone is a good for example of
that, our services are a good example of that".
We don't know if Windows 9will be available as an upgrade from Windows 7
that you can buy as a standalone product or if you'll have to have Windows 8 to
get the upgrade. But it may not be with us for a while yet - Windows business
chief Tami Reller has talked about "multiple selling seasons" for
Windows 8, meaning that we'll likely have several versions of it.
Some rumors have suggested late 2014 or early 2015 for a Windows 9 release,
though the former seems wide of the mark.
In January 2014, well-known Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott said he believes
the company plans to release Windows 9 (codenamed Threshold) in April 2015,
less than three years after Windows 8.
The thinking appears to be that the Windows 8 name is now too tarnished and
that - in contrast to Reller's comments above - Microsoft wishes to clear
things out by releasing Windows 9 instead.
"Maturing and fixing the "Metro" design language used by
Windows will be a major focus area of Threshold," Thurrott added.
"It's not clear what changes are coming, but it's safe to assume that a
windowed mode that works on the desktop is part of that."
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