Microsoft plans to release a preliminary version of the new operating system, Windows 9 in the fall of this year. It is reported by ZDNet reporter Mary Jo Foley, citing sources within the corporation. In particular, the release of the operating system is expected in late September or early October.
We are talking about publicly available the preliminary version of Windows 9. install it users will have to agree to automatic monthly receive system updates.
Windows 9 is the next major upgrade to Windows, which, according to reports, will be released in the spring of 2015. According to insiders, the operating system will get a number of new features that improve both Windows on devices with touch-screen computers using the keyboard and mouse for input.
Among these functions may be "Start" menu with "live" tiles , the application with the "tile" design that can operate in a normal desktop, integration with voice assistant Cortana. In addition, Windows 9 will the technology of virtual desktops that replicates the function spaces in OS X. Users will be able to work with several virtual desktops, switching between them in full-screen mode, and placing them next to each other.
Faced with the problems in China, Microsoft thought about the new procedure for activationof the operating system. Activate Windows 9, is expected to be carried out when a user logs in the online store Microsoft Store, at the same time it will not be granted itself the product key now will not have to enter anything on their own.
According to rumors, Microsoft plans to make Windows 9 free for users of previous versions of the operating system, including the already not support Windows XP. Such a move will help the company from Redmond to keep up with Apple and attract users to the new platform-conservatives still prefer to use the old version of the OS.