Microsoft’s CEO Explains What Happened with Windows 9

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Satya Nadella offers brief explanation of how the company decided to skip Windows 9 and release Windows 10
September 30 was the day when Microsoft was expected to announce the new Windows 9 and provide users with a preview version of the operating system, but the company instead came up with something totally unexpected.

Microsoft decided to name its upcoming operating system Windows 10 and thus skip Windows 9, despite the buzz that was created in the last few months and pointing to this particular designation for Redmond’s next OS version.

The company, however, never provided a reason for its decision to skip Windows 9 and go directly to Windows 10, with many people believing that this change of heart was based on its intention to emphasize the huge improvements that it made to the operating system.

The new CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo conference to discuss about Microsoft’s plans in the cloud business and also provided a very short explanation of what happened with Windows 9.
“Windows 9 just came and went”
Nadella didn’t offer too many details on how the company actually decided to go straight to Windows 10, but he did suggest that Windows 9 was just a designation for its operating system and nothing more.

“It came and went,” Nadella explained when he was asked by a Gartner analyst what happened with Windows 9.

While he didn’t provide any specifics, some people claimed that possible app compatibility issues caused by code in software solutions trying to identify the OS version could also be a reason for the jump to Windows 10. It appears that some apps could incorrectly identify Windows 9 as Windows 95, so Microsoft decided to avoid all these problems by releasing Windows 10.

Evidence of Windows 8.1 Update 2 found in Windows 10
In a surprising turn of events, despite Microsoft’s decision to rename Windows 9 to Windows 10, it appears that the operating system was initially supposed to be just a second update for Windows 8.1.

Evidence of Windows 8.1 Update 2 was found in some Windows 10 files, so it appears that Microsoft initially designed it to be just a new update for Windows 8.1, but in the end decided to provide it to users under a completely new name and as a stand-alone release.

What’s more, Microsoft’s executives confirmed at the BUILD 2014 developer conference earlier this year that some of the features currently part of Windows 10, including the Start menu and the windowed Metro apps, would arrive on a second Windows 8.1 update, thus suggesting that an update instead of a full OS preview was planned since early 2014.
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Thanks, Petrovic!:cool:
Now I shall be daydreaming about a second update for Windows 8.1! Mathematically, this update could be 1.9 which when added to 8.1 would equal Windows 10!!:p:D
I can dream...;) :):)
 

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This is a lame excuse, from a MS CEO.
So either they abandon Windows 8 because of the shitstorm it caused, specially with surveillance & privacy in mind and obviously the special windows 8 computers which have a chip build in to facilitate a "law enforcement agency" to come in and profiling , and allows MS to come into the computer and remove any file they do not like and block any software or application, and see source codes of small developers and financial documents from companies and such. And that is without the user knowing.
Then it was the huge security flaws, and obviously the industry that said NO to windows 8 and if thats not enough its own fanbase torpedoed windows 8 and 8.1
And now they are moving to Windows 10..... Lol MS wake up just tell the world you screwed up and gone to bed with uncle sam and that you lost control over your own OS.

Sorry guys, but this is a great article that shows the inability by MS to face up to the truth. Ill bet my black socks that if Windows 10 comes out and all the techies discover that everything above is still present, yet better coded and better hidden and they discover that this was just a trick to lure refusing costumers back to them while they are still getting screwed over like in windows 8 and not to mention the huge costs involved for migrating and such...

That could end MS.

Mark my words.

I talk every day with people from huge companies, and if you guys would know what they got to say about MS then its a surprise that MS is still around.
 

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... I'll bet my black socks that if Windows 10 comes out and all the techies discover that everything above is still present, yet better coded and better hidden and they discover that this was just a trick to lure refusing costumers back to them while they are still getting screwed over like in windows 8 and not to mention the huge costs involved for migrating and such...
Lmao!!:D:D (..sorry, it was the "black socks" that got me!!:p:D).
OK, *serious face now*
I, for one, whom live in the land of "Uncle Sam", and in the :eek:shadow of his humongous bed, am glad Nico is on our side!!:cool: Lol (again)!:D
 
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“It came and went,” Nadella explained when he was asked by a Gartner analyst what happened with Windows 9. Lmao!
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MS tell us the damn truth and not those pathetic excuses.:mad:
 
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Linux is the way, Windows 7 was quite good. Future versions will all suck believe me. They will add some useful and nice features, just to hide the pile of Sh1t they got into it.
 
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the new CEO is a moron. There is no significance change and he already released 8.1 --> 9 --> 10. Actually he could have just released one Service Pack for Win8.
 
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