Windows 9 Coming soon.?

[uncleub]

www.expertreviews.co.uk/operating-systems/1401073/windows-9-release-date-beta-features-rumours-coming-30th-september

Release date
There's a lot of confusion and conflicts over the Windows 9 release date. Russian pirate group Wzor, which has good form on this kind of thing, has said (via a hard-to-read Google Translation) that there will be a Windows 8.2 update in September with a Start Menu. Windows 9 will then be released after that, also with a Start Menu. However, trusting a Warez group over official channels isn't the best course of action.

A better idea would be to believe sources "familiar with Microsoft's plans", speaking to The Verge. According to the site, Microsoft will reveal Threshold on the 30th of September, letting developers get their first look at a redesigned Windows and put it to the test while the company finishes ironing out any remaining bugs before a worldwide launch in 2015.

This means that we're likely to see Windows 9 next year. Paul Thurrot has said that he expects Windows 9 to be released in April 2015. According to this schedule, it's entirely possible that we'll see an early preview edition of Windows 9 this year, before the final release in 2015. Microsoft is officially keeping quiet on the matter, for now, so we're going to have to wait a bit longer to find out what its plans really are.

[nob]

I hope the software companies are working on drivers, I had to bin a scanner when I moved from XP to Vista, but ill have a look at it when its released.

[Ratae]

Aug 26, 2014 17:24:36 GMT nob said:

I hope the software companies are working on drivers, I had to bin a scanner when I moved from XP to Vista, but ill have a look at it when its released.

Uncle Bill certainly know how to make a dollar innit.

[banjo]

Windows 8- the latest in a dubious heritage running from Windows ME through Vista and onto W8. W8 may be the shortest lived of them all.

e&oe

[Deleted]

Seems like good policy for users to give every other version of Windows a miss.

[mr]

Rather than binning perfectly good hardware just because it won't run on the latest version of Microflop, may I suggest you keep it and use it with Linux instead? I have an old Mustex scanner from the days of Win 98 that still works with the very latest version (2014) of Mint 17 LTS.

[Ratae]

He's right y'know!

[nob]

Long gone my scanner and bought an all in one printer scanner wifi job.