Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

Post by WalterSear » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 6:37 PM UTC

Goronmon wrote: post #50

tiziano88 wrote: post #24

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not if it's in fact just a rebranded windows 8

You mean like how Windows 7 was basically a rebranded Vista?

Post by greenyoda » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 10:31 PM UTC

shawabawa3 wrote: post #13

m_st wrote: post #9

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Well they could have called it Windows 8.2, no?

Technically they could have, but do they have any history of doing that? (edit: didn't realise they released 8.1, thought it was SP1. I guess I partially retract how stupid I think the sentence is) The sentence would have made a bit of sense if they had gone back to vista style naming, and called it windows or something. But the last 2 releases have been called 7 and 8, is 9 really distancing itself from 8?

Post by yuhong » Sat, Jan 18, 2014, 7:03 AM UTC

daigoba66 wrote: post #20

johnatwork wrote: post #7

I hope with this release they resolve some edition confusions between nonsensical words, like Premium, Professional, Ultimate, etc.

Despite some of the earlier marketing, describing how much simpler the editions became, it's still a cluster-mess. For example read about problems upgrading to 8.1 for various editions: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/why-can-t-find-... . Upgrading to a "service pack" in previous versions of Windows never seemed this complicated.