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Windows 8.1 Update 1 expected 3rd quarter of 2014, more details on Threshold (rumor)


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Windows Threshold. That's the big update we are expecting for Windows. Before this update arrives, we are also expecting "Update 1" for Windows 8.1, which is now rumored to be around the third quarter of 2014.

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While there isn't much information on what Update 1 will feature, there are new details on what Windows Threshold might be. For those that didn't know, Windows Threshold is expected to be a re-imagining of Windows, featuring an updated wave of operating systems across Windows-based phones, devices and gaming consoles.

In fact, Windows Threshold is rumored to feature a common core for touch, voice, and mouse/keyboard devices. Here is a breakdown of what Threshold is rumored to feature:

- A common core for touch/voice-first devices & mouse-first devices. The cloud services core moves independently.

- A common UX for touch/voice-first devices. A separate UX for mouse-first devices. The cloud team will create separate front-ends for both.

- A common app runtime for touch/voice/mouse-first devices. A legacy games runtime for voice-first devices. Legacy app runtimes for touch-first & mouse-first devices. The cloud team does its own thing with IAAS & PAAS offerings, within which apps using these or other runtimes may be executed.

- The touch-first SKU will work on 4” to 8” displays, on devices produced by Microsoft & select partners.

- The mouse-first SKU will work on 10” to 30” displays, and will be sold at retail, to all partners & through volume licensing.

- The voice-first SKU will work on 40” to 80” displays, on Microsoft devices.

- The cloud team will deliver various SKUs customized for independent app developers, businesses & government.

These details come from a Microsoft insider known as MSFTNerd. According to him, these details are "based on a heavy dose of speculative information by Microsoft employees who are not directly involved in program management on these products and the boatload of semi-accurate rumors that are out there already."

This rumor also states that Microsoft is working to make it so you can purchase apps via the Windows Store and run those apps on your Windows Phone, Windows 8/RT, and Xbox One without having to pay twice.

Again, we are looking at a 2015 timeframe for Windows Threshold, so things can change until that time approaches. How do you feel about having a common core, especially between Windows Phone and Windows RT?

Keep in mind that this is all speculation for now, no matter how credible it may sound. Hopefully we hear more about Windows Threshold and Update 1 in the near future.

Source:http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-81-update-1-expected-3rd-quarter-2014-more-details-threshold-rumor

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Spring Windows updates, it's not Win8.2

The spring of 2014, we will celebrate the Win8.1 a big update, it is more like a year Service Pack patch (Win8.1 SP1), we can understand it as Windows 8.1 + or Windows 8.1 Update 1 , however, all aspects of the news, it will not be Win8.2 .

Name, after all, only code, what was the name does not matter, the key is you have to use, good-looking, fun.

Microsoft began an internal debate on the 2014 version of the spring, in view of the trend of integration of the Windows operating system, Windows must wait for Windows Phone 8.1 version number of the update rate, so no circumstances Win8.2 and WP8.1 simultaneously released The Windows updates or follow the nominal Win8.1, Win8.1 Plus or Win8.1 Update.

Windows 8.1 + actually been formed, and Microsoft is in full swing to start internal testing and improvement of, find and solve more Bug, test drive more hardware and software compatibility issues, and so the game.

Windows 8.1 + will be completed in March, I believe it will get attention this version, the upgrade should be open for the general public will be right around April.

The Windows 8.1 + should be the biggest improvement on the performance of the kernel, so low-profile computer / device capable of running up to 1GHz speed is the biggest highlight of this update.



If you looking forward to the new UI interface improvements and cool, then 2015 Win9 (specific version is still pending) is the real welcomed. " Win9, trisomy. "This article inside, and we mentioned before, totally streamlined unified common kernel interface different on different devices, this is everyone really wants Windows.

Of course, we do not have to wait too long, the second half of 2014, we should see Windows9 early preview version (perhaps the 2015 version of Microsoft named Win8.2), you can see the new face of Betta Betta, 2015, Microsoft will also be launched counterattack real time. Into, then Microsoft is brilliant on the PC can be extended to more areas of consumer devices, defeated, then the future will only be able to get Microsoft's revenue by Office / Windows and other enterprise services, into the former IBM enterprise service selected direction.

www.win8china.com/html/9431.html

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Spring Windows updates, it's not Win8.2

The spring of 2014, we will celebrate the Win8.1 a big update, it is more like a year Service Pack patch (Win8.1 SP1), we can understand it as Windows 8.1 + or Windows 8.1 Update 1 , however, all aspects of the news, it will not be Win8.2 .

Name, after all, only code, what was the name does not matter, the key is you have to use, good-looking, fun.

Microsoft began an internal debate on the 2014 version of the spring, in view of the trend of integration of the Windows operating system, Windows must wait for Windows Phone 8.1 version number of the update rate, so no circumstances Win8.2 and WP8.1 simultaneously released The Windows updates or follow the nominal Win8.1, Win8.1 Plus or Win8.1 Update.

Windows 8.1 + actually been formed, and Microsoft is in full swing to start internal testing and improvement of, find and solve more Bug, test drive more hardware and software compatibility issues, and so the game.

Windows 8.1 + will be completed in March, I believe it will get attention this version, the upgrade should be open for the general public will be right around April.

The Windows 8.1 + should be the biggest improvement on the performance of the kernel, so low-profile computer / device capable of running up to 1GHz speed is the biggest highlight of this update.

If you looking forward to the new UI interface improvements and cool, then 2015 Win9 (specific version is still pending) is the real welcomed. " Win9, trisomy. "This article inside, and we mentioned before, totally streamlined unified common kernel interface different on different devices, this is everyone really wants Windows.

Of course, we do not have to wait too long, the second half of 2014, we should see Windows9 early preview version (perhaps the 2015 version of Microsoft named Win8.2), you can see the new face of Betta Betta, 2015, Microsoft will also be launched counterattack real time. Into, then Microsoft is brilliant on the PC can be extended to more areas of consumer devices, defeated, then the future will only be able to get Microsoft's revenue by Office / Windows and other enterprise services, into the former IBM enterprise service selected direction.

www.win8china.com/html/9431.html

Iam just waiting for WIN 10 (x). As I have read, Bill Gate$$ did state 'back to basics', but the ? / What Basics :think:

P.S. But ILL def. go for Win 9 ;)

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If you looking forward to the new UI interface improvements and cool, then 2015 Win9 (specific version is still pending) is the real welcomed. " Win9, trisomy. "This article inside, and we mentioned before, totally streamlined unified common kernel interface different on different devices, this is everyone really wants Windows.

Let's see whether MS surprise us with that new UI interface.

Thanks for the article tezza.

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About Windows Treshold (rumor): a 'touch-first' and 'mouse-first' approach, depending on the screen resolutions, could be a good sign. :pope:

Spring Windows updates, it's not Win8.2

The spring of 2014, we will celebrate the Win8.1 a big update, it is more like a year Service Pack patch (Win8.1 SP1), we can understand it as Windows 8.1 + or Windows 8.1 Update 1

Yes, the support policy for 8.1 equals that of a Service Pack.

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifecycle-Windows81-faq <lifecycle-Windows81-faq

It could still leave room for an official 8.1-SP1, later on.

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

Microsoft tries to put Windows 8 in the rear-view mirror

At the BUILD developer conference in April 2014, Microsoft will discuss its vision for the future of Windows, including a year-off release codenamed "Threshold" that will most likely be called Windows 9. Here's what I know about the next major release of Windows.

As a kind of recap, we know that Microsoft will update Windows 8.1 in 2014, first with a service pack/feature pack-type update called Update 1 (or GDR1 internally). I wrote a bit about this update recently in Windows 8.1 Update 1 (Very Early) Preview but the expectation is that it will ship in April 2014 alongside Windows Phone 8.1, the development of which Microsoft will soon complete.

Also in April, of course, is BUILD 2014. That show will hit just weeks after Microsoft completes its corporate reorganization and will surprisingly be very much focused on Windows Phone and Xbox, according to my sources. But I think Windows watchers will agree that the biggest news from the show will be an announcement about Microsoft's plans for the next major Windows version, codenamed "Threshold."

I previously wrote about Threshold in Microsoft to Take Windows to the "Threshold", Further Changes Coming in Windows "Threshold" and Big Changes Are Coming to Windows. This is the release my sources previously pegged as being the one that will see the return of the Start menu and the ability to run Metro-style apps on the desktop alongside desktop applications.

But Threshold is more important than any specific updates. Windows 8 is tanking harder than Microsoft is comfortable discussing in public, and the latest release, 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 while enticing users to adopt this new Windows on new types of personal computing devices. In short, it needs to be everything that Windows 8 is not.

Here's what I've learned about Threshold.

Windows 9. To distance itself from the Windows 8 debacle, Microsoft is currently planning to drop the Windows 8 name and brand this next release as Windows 9. That could change, but that's the current thinking.

BUILD vision announcement. In case it's not obvious that the Sinofsky era is over, Microsoft will use BUILD to provide its first major "vision" announcement for Windows since, yes, Longhorn in 2003. Don't expect anything that grandiose, but the Windows team believes it needs to hit a happy middle ground between the KGB-style secrecy of the Sinofsky camp and the freewheeling "we can do it all" days that preceded that. As important, the firm understands that customers need something to be excited about.

No bits at BUILD. Microsoft will not be providing developers with an early alpha release of "Threshold" at BUILD, and for a good reason: The product won't even begin development until later that month. Right now, Microsoft is firming up which features it intends to deliver in this release.

Metro 2.0. Maturing and fixing the "Metro" design language used by Windows will be a major focus area of Threshold. It's not clear what changes are coming, but it's safe to assume that a windowed mode that works on the desktop is part of that.

Three milestones. Microsoft expects to deliver three milestone releases of "Threshold" before its final release. It's unclear what these releases will be called (Beta, Release Candidate, etc.) or which if any will be provided to the public.

April 2015 release. Microsoft is currently targeting April 2015 for the release of Windows 9 "Threshold."

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.

These things don't happen in isolation—the big and slow Vista arrived inauspiciously just as netbooks were taking off and Windows 8 arrived just as media tablets changed everything—and it's fair to say that the technology world of today barely resembles that of 2006, creating new challenges for Windows. Threshold will target this new world. It could very well be a make or break release.
http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/threshold-be-called-windows-9-ship-april-2015

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