Hi all

Well I thought it was a good time to make a report on this for microsofts new release schedule for os's is going though a big change.

Seems MS is grabbing some pointers from apples playbook and will be releasing a new os on a yearly basis from now on so be expecting a new os every year. Starting with this year when the upcoming Windows BLUE or if you like Windows 9 will be released by mid 2013.

If anyone has heard the rumblings or been keeping up with the microsoft tech blogs Windows Blue will be an even more dumbed down version of windows 8 with aero completly removed, Windows Blue essentially Windows 8 SP1 being released later this year will apparently be even more neutered, with a solid taskbar, even flatter less attractive interface elements. All this in order to more push the windows store as that is where ms most likely intend to start making it's money from rather then the os itself.

So there is a lot of drastic changes coming in the near future but not ones I would call myself great improvements here are some good articles below for more reading

https://www.extremetech.com/computing...rsion-of-metro

https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/28/3...pdate-low-cost

https://www.pcworld.com/article/20174...windows-8.html

Added to this is microsofts rampant take down of pirate copies of their os which is the reason behind why the pricing will be much cheaper on future versions as microsoft has said that users will find with any pirated copies of any of the new os's starting with Windows Blue users will find the microsoft windows store inaccessible.

As this would seem that a lot of the customization that has been worked on out there for the current windows 8 will not work for their new os's with even more code removed and the new flatter interface reports say that microsoft is really pushing and going to stick with the Metro UI and will be doing whatever it takes to get ppl to use it