More references to Windows 9 and Windows Phone 9 in job offers and profiles

That Microsoft is working on a major update to Windows 8 is no longer news to anyone. That we may be facing a new version of the system is still hard to guess. But the fact that Redmond is preparing a lot for the next iterations of its operating systems seems increasingly difficult to ignore. The latest are the continual references to Windows version 9 and Windows Phone in a job posting and a couple of employee profiles.

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We start with the most official.It comes from Microsoft itself, which has published a new job offer directly mentioning Windows 9 and Internet Explorer 11 The offer is for the position of software development engineer at Bing. It says that the team the new employee will join will be constantly developing products in areas that include integrated services in Windows 9 and IE11, as well as touch devices including iPad and the like."

The second mention refers to Windows Phone 9. The news comes from an employee of iSoftStone, a Microsoft Gold Partner, who mentions on LinkedIn that he has been working for a month on a project for Windows Phone 9 related to development and testing of XAP/APPX applications. It therefore seems that Microsoft would be working on the new version of the mobile operating system at the same time. But how much do the desktop and mobile versions share?

To end the skein a bit more, a Microsoft employee has published, also on her LinkedIn profile, that she has been working on testing the operating system Windows 9 for Nokia, HTC and Qualcomm devices Although it says Windows 9 here, with those manufacturers one might guess that it is actually referring to Windows Phone 9. It could be a simple mistake, or there could be another explanation and it is none other than the future integration between the company's operating systems, which has been rumored in recent times.

Too many coincidences in names and numbering makes it easy to think that version 9 of both operating systems is not too far away. Maybe it has nothing to do with Blue and the latter is really an update. Important, but an update nonetheless. Windows 9 may be what comes next. But what is certain is that speculating about a possible merger of both systems, desktop and mobile, seems less and less extravagant.

Via | Xataka Mobile > MSFTKitchen