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Microsoft Corporation will offer a look into its next
operating system during an event this September, as it attempts to recapture
some of the market it has ceded to competitors with its last two releases.
According to a report Thursday from Tech
City,
what is likely Windows 9 is internally codenamed
“Threshold” and still under development. |
| Windows 9 Press Release Coming This September |
Microsoft will release a Windows 9 preview, or beta, for
software developers on Sept. 30, according to the report. The latest news
corresponds with Microsoft sources who told ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley
last week that the company would offer a preview of Windows 9 in late September
or early October.
Microsoft is likely to stick with the numerical naming
platform it started with Windows 7, but will not reveal the official name
during the event, the report said. Windows 9 will include a number of new
features and some old, such as a revived “start menu,” which Microsoft had
removed from Windows in its effort to come up with an operating system design
that worked better with touch inputs on tablets.
The report says it may not include an early version of
Cortana, the software company’s assistant meant to rival Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google Inc.’s eponymous Now.
Microsoft unveiled Cortana for Windows Phone earlier this year, which allowed
it to catch “up with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android in a major way,”
according to The Guardian.
A new, revamped version of the Windows start menu appeared
in screenshots released by Myce.
They included small, square boxes including information such as the weather and
news headlines, similar to the cards used in Google Now.
Microsoft is also experimenting with virtual desktops, which
allow a user to have more than one desktop on a single computer, organizing and
separating tasks such as web browsing and media consumption from work and
ongoing projects, for example. Microsoft is also expected to remove the Charms
bar in its next version of Windows.
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