Microsoft planning Windows 9 release in April 2015

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Please tell me they at least kept the metro home screen as an option
 

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On another note, I decided to go in the Windows store here at Lenox Mall and try the Surface tablets. Took me all of 15 seconds to figure out how to use it. From the brief look I had in the store, Microsoft got the UI down smooth for the tablet/mobile devices.

But :snoop: at throwing a mobile UI on a desktop/laptop.
 

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I tolerate 8 because it came with the laptop I got recently but make no mistake, this metro UI shyt is weak as fukk and needs to go and clearly M$FT agrees if those Windows 9 pics are legit

Windows 8 works great on a surface tablet but that's it. Anything is a big no no. They basically added salt to pretzels.

And come to think of it, I almost won an Ebay listing for a Surface tab and my first order of business was going to be to put Ubuntu on that shyt :laugh:
 

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So Windows 9 = Windows 8.3 :huhldup: I'll take a pass on this one.
 

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Windows 9 will probably be great. All they have to do is add the start menu(confirmed) and have it auto-detect what kind of device you have and put itself in desktop or modern UI mode(confirmed). Not to mention, there will be Windows 9 tablets that start at $99. That may be game over considering one could install bluestacks and get the entire Android library of apps and access to the Google Play store.

Yes, I'm predicting a win for M$.
 

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http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-...firmed-windows-9-will-be-free-windows-8-users

A new report claims that the President of Microsoft Indonesia, Andreas Diantoro, confirmed in a presentation this week that the launch of the next version of Windows could be free for people who have already installed Windows 8 on their PCs.
According to the (translated) article on the Indonesia website Detik, Diantoro stated, "when the OS (Windows 9) was launched later, users who have been using Windows 8 just need to do the update via his device. It will be installed automatically." A few months ago, ZDNet reported that Microsoft was thinking about making the next version of Windows free for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 owners.

Even if this report turns out to be accurate, we don't expect Microsoft to confirm pricing for the next version of Windows (which may be called "Windows 9", "Windows TH" or just plain "Windows") when it holds its press event on September 30th in San Francisco. That will likely happen a few months before the final version is released, which is expected to happen sometime in the spring of 2015. Be sure to check out our new feature where we go over what we think might be included in the next big Windows release.

I am definitely down with this if this rumor is true.
 

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hell no that shyt aint true. They'd lose money. They talking about windows 9 being free for people using Windows 7+?? How many people even use versions older then 7? it's basically gonna be a free OS which we all know MS aint about that.
its a lotta people still on XP. a lot of companies still on XP because it was solid. & is a tad bit better then XP. which is why i'm still on 7. and since i dont yet have a tablet or touchscreen laptop. 8 is not necessary for me. if i did, i would've been on 8. I will be hopping on 9 though.
 
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