A NEW VERSION OF WINDOW 9

Welcome to the world of window here you enjoy the window’s 9.it will be a sequel of window 8

For over 4 years we’ve covered the development of Windows 7, and now Windows 8.  It may seem a bit premature to start thinking about Windows 9, but we can assure you Microsoft aren’t and they are already working on this release, even though Windows 8 hasn’t been released yet.

Some details about Windows 9 have been released.  Over on Windows 7 News & Tips, Mike has tried to pull together what we know about

Again it is a possibility that this will happen with Windows 8, but the move to a completely x64 operating system will mean that there will be absolutely no need for any legacy support within the operating system anyway.  This will be because none of the legacy apps, drivers and plug-ins that exist today; which all run on 32-bit architecture, will run on a 64-bit only platform.  The move will be towards sandboxed virtualisation.  I say sandboxed as Windows XP will be completely out of support before Windows 9 goes on sale, and Microsoft will need to reassure business and consumers alike that running legacy code in a virtual machine will be safe and secure.

Okay, so Lord of the Rings jokes aside, it was announced at the Worldwide Partner Conference that Microsoft want to move all of their systems to a unified operating system.  This is what Apple have done with iOS on the iPhone and iPad being a set of extensions on top of the core OS X kernel.  It makes sense too and we, again, may see some of this with Windows 8 as back in January this year, the CEO of Intel commented that his company would be shipping Windows 8 on smartphones.

When Microsoft were developing Windows Vista they did away with the old OS kernel from XP and instead replaced it with the core kernel from Windows Server 2003.  To this day both the desktop and server versions of Windows run the same core kernel, and this move has proved spectacularly successful for Microsoft.  Windows 7 is widely acknowledged to be one of the most secure operating systems available today (ongoing issues with legacy support not withstanding).

Again this was announced at the WPC.  It makes some sense for Microsoft to move all their devices, where possible, to a perhaps not unified, but certainly standardised interface.  This isn’t always possible or a good idea.  For instance the addition of Launchpad in OS X Lion, which  arranges your icons in a grid pattern on the screen in the same way they appear on the iPad.  While a nice idea in principle, it’s been criticised for spacing the icons too far apart on the desktop, making excessive mouse movements required for launching them.  According to many people it’s a poor alternative to OS X’s current dock.

If you can standardise some elements across your platforms though then you can help people move seamlessly from one to another.  Nobody is ever going to argue though that tablet interfaces will work on the desktop or vice versa, Windows 7 on tablets is the finest example of this.

In all, Windows 9, when it appears in 2015 will be a significant departure for Microsoft and probably the most exciting version of Windows ever.  That said it will also cause businesses, software companies and hardware vendors significant headaches if they don’t start work on 64-bit versions of their products very soon.

 Windows 9, which is being developed at the same time as Windows 8, which will replace Windows in 2012.  Windows 9 isn’t expected to be ready until 2015 so we’ll have a lot of time to track its development!