What You Need to Know About Windows 9
With a preview of Windows 9 due in September or October, it’s becoming clear that the era of Windows 8 is fast coming to an end.
According to Mary Jo Foley, Threshold, which is Windows 9’s codename, will be released in the market by early 2015.
Yet even though it seems as if Windows 8 will be removed from the market, a large part of the change it brought will remain. Experts consider this to be a move that is similar to the Office 2007 situations where they changed everything and released a successful Office 2010.
However, only this time, Microsoft will have to careful to keep what is good about Windows 8 while blending in a series of strong desktop-centric updates while also taking into consideration device form factor.
And while its success is a ‘maybe’, what’s for sure is that people obtaining Windows 9 is not something they’ll have to wait for in the distant future but actually a reality that is only eight to nine weeks away.
As for Windows 8 and 8.1’s performance, they have more than 12 percent of the market share combined. Or, in other words, almost one in eight PCs use either Windows 8 or a variant of this operating system.
Even though Windows 8.1 is far more popular than its predecessor, Windows 8 still runs on 6 percent of PCs in the world.
What will be interesting to note is whether Windows 9 can increase its market share on PCs in the manner Windows 8 has was able to do away with its earlier version.
What also remains to be seen is if people will switch over the Windows 9 from either Windows 7 or 8.