How do you adumbrate the future? It's easy: There's traveling to be a Windows 9 in a few years. As for what ability be central Microsoft's approaching operating system, however, that's a accomplished ‘nother ballgame.
It's not that harder to get bent up in some artless fantasy if asked to adumbrate the approaching aisle of Microsoft's capital OS. You know—Windows 9 will acquiesce your desktop to transform into a behemothic robot, or Windows 9 will be an on-the-fly amalgam OS that transforms into a simpler adaptation of Metro for free-floating book accessories and the full-fledged Windows 9 if these accessories are affiliated up to a dock/keyboard setup.
Honestly, I affectionate of like the apprentice idea.
But let's get serious. What's the likely approaching administration of Microsoft Windows? Even because that the accepted customer acknowledgment to Windows 8—assuming it's not just a Band-Aid for tablets while Microsoft devotes the amount of its assets to a absolutely revamped adaptation of the OS—will acceptable play a role in what Microsoft decides to do aural its big follow-up.
One Operating System. Period.Since one can't acknowledgment Windows 8 after adage something about its Metro UI in the actual next breath, here's the aboriginal prediction: Metro is just the beginning. The affair ground, as it were. It feels as if Microsoft's admirable ambition is to arrange its accessories beneath a individual operating system, agnate to how there's consistently one adventure accounting about Apple every three months that suggests the aggregation is on the border of accumulation OSX and iOS.
So what are the allowances of transforming Windows into a accouterments doubter platform? Easy: One attending and feel for consumers, whether they're application their next-generation Xbox consoles, PCs, smartphones, or tablets. One development belvedere and unified APIs would acquiesce apps and appearance to cantankerous over amid accessories after ambitious a huge block of developer resources. And, of course, apps could absolution faster (if not simultaneously) on all accessories – abundant account for those acclimated to cat-and-mouse six months for a smartphone adaptation of a new PC affairs to hit. To borrow a byword from the backward Sun Microsystems: "Write once, run anywhere."
I can't apprehend how Microsoft ability antithesis the artlessness of its Metro-style interface adjoin the amplitude of its archetypal "Desktop" interface – currently a abscessed point for those arena with Microsoft's squares for the aboriginal time. But I do anticipate their roles will switch.
Microsoft will accomplish Metro (or an agnate tablet-style UI) the ascendant admeasurement of Windows 9, which will force the aggregation to acquisition some way to accomplish a simple interface circuitous when it's warranted. Conceivably this will absorb a tighter affiliation of Windows Explorer (et al) aural Metro, against the account "switchy interface" analysis of Windows 9's antecedent OS. Conceivably Microsoft will about-face over a bedrock and acquisition a Jonathan Ive of software to accomplish this difficult bond possible.
It's Just a ScreenMicrosoft is traveling to do aggregate it can to cull accessories calm as deeply as accessible beneath the Windows 9 umbrella. Your book will not just be an absolute product, for example. It'll collaborate with your primary computer's Windows 9 accession as if it was your primary (or secondary) monitor. It'll be your Xbox ambassador or Wii U-style abettor interface. It'll be your limited ascendancy – not just for interacting with added Windows 9 products, but the cartage cop for allegorical abstracts transfers and/or streams to the added Windows 9 accessories you own.
I'm not talking about some souped-up Tricorder fantasy area you can al of a sudden use your Xbox 720 to about-face on your kitchen bore from three afar away. But based on Microsoft's abrupt abstracts with "one awning for abounding purposes" in Windows 8, it's alone applicable that the aggregation extends this aesthetics to awning even added scenarios (and added devices) with Windows 9. And maybe the aggregation could even let consumers use their Kinect 2 motion-trackers to about-face amid screens or forward their files aerial about altered devices.
Hey, if Google can let you about-face on your lights with your Android phone, Microsoft can absolutely let your "central data" plan in a agnate way on any awning in your house.
Thanks, Cloud. Thanks, Valve.Another no-brainer: Windows 9's traveling to be angry into the cloud. Just how much, though, charcoal the big question. At the actual least, you can calculation on added affiliation – conceivably even body anon into the book arrangement – of Microsoft's SkyDrive-based hosting.
The time is not far off if cloud-based accumulator will not be a abstracted app you amount aural Windows or a binder you artlessly bead things into. It'll just be. You'll still be able to accumulate assertive apps and mission-critical files on your desktop (for achievement or security), but Windows' absence accumulator mindset will about-face from the bounded to the ethereal.
Plus, this would accord Microsoft a way to upsell barter on basic accumulator amplitude and assuredly tie them into the Windows ancestors forevermore. Ta-da!
Now, how abundant crazier we get with the billow is anyone's guess. This includes aggregate from behind-the-scenes backups of your absolute harder drive, to apps that run absolutely in the billow and just crave a basal angle aural your OS to function, to the absolute biggie: A cloud-based operating system. In the closing – which would use techniques Microsoft's been active patenting – you'd download or physically install just a baby block of abstracts appropriate to in fact cossack an operating system. Which I accept could even be stored on a beam drive, if you wish to get absolutely fancy.
The aggregate of Windows 9 (or 10?) would reside in the billow – your accessory would be affiliated to a terminal. Which makes me admiration how we'd access software like games: Would these run in the billow as able-bodied and just stream an angel to one's device? What happens if one's internet affiliation is slow, jittery, or non-existent? Does that beggarly your OS goes offline for good? Your video bold dude dies?
We can accumulate our active in the accouterments clouds all day long, if we'd like. But at the very, actual least, here's acquisitive that approaching incarnations of Windows accept a Valve-like access to software.
A "buy once, run anywhere" abstraction could acquiesce a user to accredit into Windows 9 on any accouterments device, and again just as calmly download and run apps he or she has ahead purchased via the acceptable ol' Microsoft Store. Given just how app-centric Windows 8's Metro UI has become, it alone makes faculty to let users download (or stream) a "Microsoft Office" app, or a partner's "Adobe Photoshop" app, for example. The apple is traveling agenda distribution: Microsoft should, and will, embrace its conveniences for end users.
Giant RobotsAnd, of course, Windows 9 will acquiesce you to transform your PC into a walking, angry robot. Abstracted downloadable agreeable in the anatomy of add-on packs, Microsoft Flight-style, will acquiesce you to alternation your PC apprentice to accomplish accepted domiciliary chores.
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