Windows 9

[Glenn]

Should be selling next spring http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/30/windows-9-desktop-mode/

[zappaDPJ]

Hopefully it'll be something I want to upgrade to this time. It certainly sounds like some lessons have been learnt.

[nowster]

There is something in the saying that only every other version of Windows is worth looking at.

[pctech]

Shouldn't this have always been the case in the same way that Windows only offers a battery meter and associated options when it detects its running on a machine with a battery?

Was on a Windows 7 training course and one of the delegates got upset that the trainer couldn't show her the battery options because he was running it on a desktop.

He told her three times he couldn't make it appear as Windows needed to detect a battery before it would display the options.

[Technical Ben]

Well, their plan was to obviously make it like iOS/Android and/or an on screen app store, but cleverly disguised as a "utility/quick launch/app/update screen". Like how the current Consoles do.

With the current consoles, your "just loading your game, music, friends list" but in reality, your watching adverts, seeing latest downloads, then going to your game/friends/music.

Everyone wants to be the Yahoo portal with adds on the front, services to sell, and a tiny little search bar you'd have trouble finding with a screen magnifier...

So after it's failed, it's back to "plan B" which hopefully will be business as usual.