Windows 8 could be partly responsible for declining PC sales
Will Microsoft learn from messages like this? As Heise reports, the head of Acer has made statement, that Windows 8 is too complicated and people do not understand the system.
The curious thing about the situation is that Windows 8 should boost the PC market sales. Now the opposite seems to have happened! Due to the many negative reports about Windows 8, this was to be expected anyway.
Sales of notebooks and desktop computers in Q4 2012 decreased by 6.4% compared to the same period last year, the entire year it was 3.2%. One reason for the problems is that many consumers prefer to buy smartphones and tablets, as they don’t require a lot of functionality of a complete PCs.
We hope that Microsoft will learn from all this and present as a better “Windows 9″!
Will Windows 9 / Blue be shipped for free?
As reported on nachrichten.at, there are rumors that the successor of Windows 8 (code named “Blue”) could be shipped for free or at very low rates.
However, Microsoft will not comment on this until now. A change in the update policy could be already tracked with Windows 8: Until January 2013 updates can be baught for just $39.90 – compared to what Windows 7 Updates costs this is already very cheap.
Windows 9: This could be a reasonable user concept
It is not to be expected and we think its not senseful if Microsoft would pulp ModernUI (formerly “Metro”) in Windows 9 completely. But how could a compromise for the desktop (not for tablets look, with all the users would be satisfied? For this purpose, there are two approaches:
Version 1:
Microsoft changes the priority of the user interfaces. Instead that the desktop is an app in the ModernUI, ModernUI would become an application on the desktop. The system would boot into the desktop and ModernUI would be accessible by clicking a shortcut. You can get such a combination even today with the application “Start 8″. With its changes you can boot directly into the desktop and it also restores the old start menu. You can access Metro by a shortcut.
Version 2:
The second variant is more extensive, but also more meaningful and more elegant – because the two interfaces would be melt together in one. The system would initially boot directly into the desktop and ModernUI would also be not a separate interface. Instead you could find all the metro apps as shortcuts on the start menu or the desktop. And uf you took this, you should think about the second: On the desktop, full screen applications are making no sense.
Theoretically a meaningful improvement: ModernUI Finance App as a window on the “old” desktop
So ModernUI apps could run fine in a sizable window like normal applications. Ideally, (this is currently not possible) you could then interact between ModernUI and normal applications. Option 2 would therefore represent a real asset and apps as well as “normal” applications would coexist peacefully.
What is your opinion about the two variants and how would you design Windows 9?
No support for “32-bit only”-CPUs in Windows 9?
One rumor seems to get a fact more and more: Windows 9 will probably no longer run on pure 32-bit processors. This would not be a surprise, because even Windows 8 has raised the hurdles in terms of CPU support very high: It requires a CPU with PAE NX/XD- and SSE2 support, otherwise you can not install the system.
However, some sources are speculating that Windows 9 would support no 32-bit applications (WOW64), too. But this does not seems very logical to us. Even today there is very little software with 64-bit support, not even Firefox and Chrome exist officially for Windows in 64-bit versions. A decision like this would “kill” millions of programs – an unthinkable thing.
Windows 8 threatens to flop – disappointing sales
It was obvious to almost everyone: How zdnet.de reported the sales of Windows 8 will just be disappointing. Microsoft blames the hardware manufacturers for the results (they wouldn't have made enough innovative hardware concepts) , but this seems implausible to us.
Microsoft Expert Paul Thurrott of “Winsupersite” puts it much better in a nutshell: The problem arose from a “monstrous mixture of old and new, which hides a great updated desktop behind a crazy Metro UI”. Also, the web design and usability expert Jacob Nielsen does not spare criticism: “Windows 8 on tablets is weak and fearful for PCs”.
If you look then at what the citizens think, you only need to compare the reviews on Amazon between Windows 7 and Windows 8: While Windows 7 receives almost everywhere full 5 stars, must settle for Windows 8 frequently with 2 or 3 stars. Striking are the many very scathing comments.
Conclusion:
With such a wave of rejection even the best hardware concepts could have changed little. We fully expect that Microsoft will reflect in Windows 9 back to a reasonable concept and delivers a worthy successor. Similar when comparing Vista and Windows 7 was the case.
What will be the final name of Windows 9?
At the first look you may say: “Surely Windows 9″. But yet there are rumors that before Windows 9 a “Windows 8.1″ intermediate-version could be released to the public. Up to now, such a behavior is not known from Microsoft in the section of desktop computing. But in the mobile section we aready saw such intermediate versions such as “Windows Phone 6.5″ instead of “Windows Phone 7″.
Because Microsoft already broke some taboos with Windows 8, we can really be tensed to see whats coming next. Really sure is nothing at the moment.
When will Windows 9 be shipped?
Surely actually there exist only rumors about the concrete shipping date of “Windows 9“. The sources that we found are speaking about a timeline between 2013 and 2015.
A rumor that there will be something with the code name “Blue” which should be introduced in 2013 also causes additional confusion. But that there are not much indications that this will be a standalone Windows version. In our opinion it is more likely that this is the name for the first Windows 8 Service Pack.
So what do we know? Not much, but we don’t calculate on Windows 9 before 2014 or 2015.
Welcome on win9-infos.com
Everybody talks about Windows 8 – we are already talking about Windows 9! But why? The new GUI introduced to WIndows 8 (initially called “Metro”) is dividing the minds. Windows 8 trys to put a Tablet-Interface on a Desktop PC what produced a lot of critic. So many users hope for Windows 9 and the reversion of this changes.
With this blog we want to follow the development of Windows 9 and inform you about the latest news, rumors and more. Also we keep you up to date about interesting news about Windows 8 which could be relevant for the development of Windows 9.
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