"Threshold" to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015

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Microsoft tries to put Windows 8 in the rear-view mirror
Paul Thurrott - Jan. 11, 2014

In some ways, the most interesting thing about Threshold is how it recasts Windows 8 as the next Vista. It's an acknowledgment that what came before didn't work, and didn't resonate with customers. And though Microsoft will always be able to claim that Windows 9 wouldn't have been possible without the important foundational work they had done first with Windows 8—just as was the case with Windows 7 and Windows Vista—there's no way to sugarcoat this. Windows 8 has set back Microsoft, and Windows, by years, and possibly for good.

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Windows 8.1, which is a substantial and free upgrade with major improvements over the original release, is in use on less than 25 million PCs at the moment. That's a disaster, and Threshold needs to strike a better balance between meeting the needs of over a billion traditional PC users

Took quite a beating.

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Now if they were to pull Balmers shares to make up for the loss. . . . .

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Ballmer owns more than 300 million shares of Microsoft stock.

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Be a good start.

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I don't know, afraid it's too late.

Consumers don't buy a device because it's running a particular operating system, they simply want something that will help them do what they want to do. The reason they used to buy Windows PCs is because, at the time, it was pretty much the only option.

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True, so true!