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Windows 9 announcment in April 2014

Everything GoesEverything Goes Posts: 12,972
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Looks like Microsoft will be doing an announcement about the future of Windows 9 (if that's what they decide to call it) in April 2014. Coincidently Windows XP support ends on 8th April 2014 along with Office 2003.

Hopefully Windows 9 will be more successful than Windows 8. By 1 January, Windows 8/8.1 had scraped up just 13 per cent market share.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/13/windows_9_coming_april_say_microsoft/

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    LyricalisLyricalis Posts: 57,958
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    Isn't it some sort of trend that releases of Windows alternate between stinker and winner? That should make the next version a winner then.

    Having said that, I use both Windows 7 and 8 daily and don't find Windows 8 that bad, just not as well thought out as it could have been.
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    Jimmy_McNultyJimmy_McNulty Posts: 11,378
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    Yep. But i'm happy with W7, Windows 9 would have to be an hell of an OS to make me change, or Microsoft could just squeeze us.....
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    ixHellstormxixHellstormx Posts: 2,192
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    Certainly can't be any worse than Windows 8/8.1
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    sjsharp2010sjsharp2010 Posts: 508
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    Jimmy_McNulty wrote: »
    Yep. But i'm happy with W7, Windows 9 would have to be an hell of an OS to make me change, or Microsoft could just squeeze us.....

    I agree that's why when buying my new desktop I stuck with windows 7. I heard win 8 could be problematic and I had my issues with Vista so wasn't keen to repeat that mistake
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    The_OneThe_One Posts: 2,402
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    Windows 9 already? I still think its too soon to have a windows 8 lol.
    Nothing wrong with win 7...
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    Jimmy_McNultyJimmy_McNulty Posts: 11,378
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    DirectX 12 will be announced at GDC on March 20th,
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    jokerzjokerz Posts: 1,353
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    Jimmy_McNulty wrote: »
    DirectX 12 will be announced at GDC on March 20th,

    Hopefully will DX12 be backwards compatible with Windows 8?

    Also will it mean we'd have to buy new GPUs? :blush:
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    frightleverfrightlever Posts: 1,272
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    jokerz wrote: »
    Hopefully will DX12 be backwards compatible with Windows 8?

    Also will it mean we'd have to buy new GPUs? :blush:

    I'm sure DX12 will work on Windows 8. You MIGHT need a new GPU to take advantage of new features but in general a new version of DX doesn't require new hardware, you just don't get all the bells and whistles.
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