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Windows 9 rumor mill heating up, heading for an April 2015 arrival

[~Time Published January 14, 2014 at 01:36PM]

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Windows watcher Paul Thurrott is reporting that, according to his sources, Microsoft will start talking about a new Windows version, codenamed Threshold, at its BUILD conference in April. Thurrott says that this version will be released, probably with the name Windows 9, a year thereafter.


Details of Threshold are thus far scarce, but a few things are notable. Thurrott says that there won't be an alpha or beta in time for the BUILD conference, and the product won't even begin development until April. Rather, the company will outline its vision and talk about what Threshold will contain.


Microsoft is striving to reach a happy medium between the extreme sharing and openness of the Longhorn project—in which the company talked up a lot of things that were either never delivered at all, or never delivered in the way originally described—and the extreme secrecy of Windows 7 and 8 that was the hallmark of Steven Sinofsky's reign at the company.



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