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Microsoft ditching Windows 8, plans to release Windows 9

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The prophecy seems to fulfill itself: "every other version of windows is bad".

I think people at Microsoft need more time to create a truly well-thought user experience. Maybe they should ditch their current release cycle and focus on:

a) better updates for current windows versions

b) take twice the time to realease a new windows version

Windows 8 is significantly better than Windows 7. Since it's almost exactly superset of Windows 7, this shouldn't be surprising.

That Windows 9 looks likely as an October release - that's MicroSoft's Q1/2015 - it appears MicroSoft is tick-tocking Windows releases...Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9.

They are already on a yearly cycle with many of their non-OS products.

People don't seem to like the Win-8 UI, though.

I suspect that the vast majority of criticisms I read are from people who rarely, if ever, use Windows 8. Consider the "start button problem" everyone who actually uses Windows 8 has (by logical necessity) solved the problem...and whatever the problem existed, supposing one did, is gone from Windows 8.1 - a free upgrade released last summer.

8.1 also successfully addressed the legitimate criticism regarding better modal integration of Metro and Desktop metaphors.

Most of the criticism of Windows 8 is generated in an echo chamber with a tradition of anti-Microsoft tribalism born in the dawn of the public commercial internet. Windows 8 introduces the replacement for a 40 year old WIMP metaphor and many people don't want change.

Power users who also disproportionately post on forums about things they dislike seem to dislike it but I'd bet there are a lot of normal users quietly getting on with it.

This seems to be the biggest Problem IMHO. All I hear is,how people are trying to get the old look back. (How to add Startmenu button? How to launch directly to Desktop? ...)

>plans to release Windows 9

No way! Who knows, maybe they'll even release Windows 10 after that.

If that was Microsoft's evil plan, surely they would have released a so called "Windows 7."

What's next, ditching Internet Explorer 6?

The truly smart move would be if they skipped the even numbers after 9. I know it's a superstition, but you have to realize that the superstition, since it does exist now, pre-inclines the users to hate the even versions.

Can you write a more crappy article? Holy shit. Why are people so surprised about Mircosoft's 3 year Windows release cycle that has existed since the 1990s???

Hyperbole without any quote or reference..

The article has almost no information at all. The title contains about as much information as the rest of the article.

Yeah, I mean what else would they release next?

"Windows 8 Turbo - Championship Edition"?

Very probably next release will be called "Windows 8.1 Update 1".

Most of the people I know read only the titles on HN... It's pretty sad.

Microsoft saw Apple's ecosystem of inter-operating devices and the simple transition between using mobile and desktop devices and thought, 'We'd like some of that'. Windows 8 seemed to be about two things, making life easier for MS and pushing desktop/laptop users into familiarity with their mobile OS.

This articles about a month old now. I'm curious if anything has changed with regards to this now that they have a new CEO.

Sheesh, now our OS releases are going to be like browser version numbers.

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