Windows and Windows Phone are dead. Long live Microsoft!
I see a pattern slowing evolving out of the recent leaks and announcements from Microsoft. Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 8.1, Bing apps, and the upcoming Smartwatch, are part of a new overall strategy that will come together in early 2015 with "Threshold".
Windows Phone, Windows RT tablets, and the new Smartwatch will become Microsoft Lumia devices. The brand name "Windows" is going away because these are not windowed devices. The desktop is dead on RT because the new touch friendly Office doesn't require it. Cortana will be able to replace the keyboard with voice input, but the touch keyboard will be there too. Information sharing between devices will be further enhanced through OneDrive and Azure.
Hybrid laptops and touch enabled desktops will receive the touch friendly version of "Threshold", while an integrated version of the desktop will be used on traditional PC's. These devices may also lose the brand name "Windows" in favor of Microsoft OS 9.
Why is the brand name "Windows" going away? Too much baggage from the past. Many people abandoned Microsoft for Apple because of viruses and crashes. "Threshold" is an allusion to the threshold of a new era in computing.
This is all just a guess based on my observations. What do you think? Is this the new direction?
I see a pattern slowing evolving out of the recent leaks and announcements from Microsoft. Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 8.1, Bing apps, and the upcoming Smartwatch, are part of a new overall strategy that will come together in early 2015 with "Threshold".
Windows Phone, Windows RT tablets, and the new Smartwatch will become Microsoft Lumia devices. The brand name "Windows" is going away because these are not windowed devices. The desktop is dead on RT because the new touch friendly Office doesn't require it. Cortana will be able to replace the keyboard with voice input, but the touch keyboard will be there too. Information sharing between devices will be further enhanced through OneDrive and Azure.
Hybrid laptops and touch enabled desktops will receive the touch friendly version of "Threshold", while an integrated version of the desktop will be used on traditional PC's. These devices may also lose the brand name "Windows" in favor of Microsoft OS 9.
Why is the brand name "Windows" going away? Too much baggage from the past. Many people abandoned Microsoft for Apple because of viruses and crashes. "Threshold" is an allusion to the threshold of a new era in computing.
This is all just a guess based on my observations. What do you think? Is this the new direction?