Windows Threshold test version for ARM processors could arrive in early 2015
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Yesterday we talked about the possible renewal of Modern UI that would accompany the next version of Windows and today we already have rumors about when we could try it. As reported by Mary Jo Foley on ZDNet, Microsoft plans to release a test version of Windows Threshold for ARM processors in January or February 2015.
"Apparently, everything indicates that Microsoft plans to permanently separate the Modern UI environment from the desktop. According to the company&39;s supposed plans, a technical preview of the new Windows prepared to work on computers with x86 architecture will be released at the end of next September.This will be focused on the desktop and will bring with it many of the changes that we have been seeing in recent weeks."
But this test version will not bring any of the new Modern UI environment and its home screen. To see the news that Microsoft is preparing on this front we will have to wait a little longer. Apparently it could be in the first months of 2015, January or February, when the new Windows can be tested on computers with ARM architecture. A Windows in which the desktop will no longer be.
Changing Windows development and distribution
The rapid availability of public test versions of a new version of Windows would aim to have everything ready for the final release of Windows 9 in the spring of 2015The date may seem far away, but it is actually a sign of how much they are willing to speed up the development process of their operating system in Redmond.
Microsoft may be preparing to abandon its method of major system remakes every several years for a faster one of small periodic updates. It could also do so by abandoning the obligation to pay for a new license for each new Windows. Without going any further, one of the rumors points to the possibility of Microsoft offering Windows 9 for free to users of Windows 7 and Windows 8 or 8.1
Even before Satya Nadella took over at Microsoft, the operating systems group seemed determined to change the way Windows is developed and distributedThreshold could be the first version of the system to implement these changes and we may be a few months away from seeing the result, whether on computers with x86 processors or devices with ARM processors.
Via | ZDNet In Xataka | Windows 9 in September: too soon? too late?
