Windows 10: Windows 9 release date, news and rumours

Read more at: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/sof...umours-1029245

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Why would my Windows 8.1 Nokia Lumia 635 phone want me to get some APP in the Store as this site opens?

Latest Surface Phone News:

1. What is the Surface Phone release date? First half of 2017 (possibly)

2. How much will the Surface Phone cost? $699 - $1,100

3. What’s new about the Surface Phone? Rumored: Three variants, Snapdragon 835 CPU, 5.7-inch display

I found this at
http://trustedreviews.com/news/microsoft-surface-phone-release-date-news-specs-price-rumours#2eOQluUFpp1QK2ar.99

http://trustedreviews.com/news/microsoft-surface-phone-release-date-news-specs-price-rumours

 

what is google doing !!!

There are no release dates for Windows Phone 8.1. Anything you've read in regards to a release date is
rumour.

 

I like this part. If that will be true.

Windows 9 to be cheaper, smaller, with more apps
In the last Microsoft earnings call CFO Peter Klein made it clear that Microsoft has got the message that Windows 8 tablets need to be cheaper; "we know that our growth depends on our ability to give customers the exciting hardware they want, at the price-points they demand."

Another revealing Microsoft job advert talks about having Windows Phone and WinRT apps run on both Windows Phone and Windows. "Do you wish the code you write for Windows Store apps would just work on the Windows Phone and vice versa? If so, then this is the role for you! We are the team leading the charge to bring much of the WinRT API surface and the .NET Windows Store profile to the Phone."

That sounds like a longer term goal, given that the job advert was on the Microsoft Careers site at the beginning of February, and it's being driven by the Windows Phone team (we don't expect to see the next version of Windows Phone until the autumn), but it could give developers an incentive to write apps for the Windows Store and give Windows 9 users more to choose from. Scaling apps to fit different size screens would help here too.

 

This could be good news and I hope its accurate as this may help towards less piracy of the operating system and help to make it more available to the lower paid, part time workers and the unemployed.

 

Most of that is about Phone and tablets, I just hope Microsoft doesn't forget there are still a lot of us desktop users out here who don't want a tablet OS. But, I agree it would be good for us if they made things cheaper as Stephanie says.

 

Apple made their money on phones and tablets more than their macs
I guess microsoft wants to try to get the same thing


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It's all about market, they have to get sales numbers and market share up.
Their biggest market is average users, that is who they are going to focus on.
Hope they don't completely forget us.

 

Interesting article. I can see the benefit of having one OS for everything from a business stand point, however I use my desktop very differently to my phone, for example. Not sure if that would work for me.

 

What I would like to see is different versions of Windows 9, so a person could install one for the desktop and another one for mobile devices.

 

Yeah, some thing like that. Obviously the desktop version can resource heavier than the mobile one...

 

One thing nice about a PC is that updating hardware to match the advances in software is pretty easy to do.

 

"What I would like to see is different versions of Windows 9, so a person could install one for the desktop and another one for mobile devices."

But isn't that what we already have with windows 8.1 (or 8)?

You can set it up on your desktop, and never have to bother with the modern screen (or touchscreen) or, set it up on your tablet with either.

 

That would be very good and I'm sure that would work and could be done by Microsoft.

 

Yes it would work and hopefully MS will see things our way. *Biggrin