Posted on 04/07/2015 9:46:57 PM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft loves to use codenames and from the past few years, there are two in particular that you may recall; Blue and Threshold. With Windows 10 (Threshold) coming to market sometime this summer, Microsoft is already starting to work on the next update for the OS.
Microsoft has said multiple times that Windows will be moving at a faster cadence than in the past and they are already working on a release for 2016. The codename for the project is 'Redstone', a popular item in the recently acquired game, Minecraft.
At this time, not much is known about Microsoft's plans for Windows vNext, but the company has now entered the planning stages of the update, as confirmed by two internal sources. This shouldn't come as a big surprise as the company is perpetually planning for the next iteration of its software, regardless of the platform.
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Where has that been published? Windows 7 and Windows 8 users will (supposedly) receive free upgrades to Windows 10, but I've not read anything about Windows OS being "free for life" once a user's upgraded to Windows 10.
Got a source for that?
I don't believe any amount of "capability of learning" can replace intuition. I think we're still a long way from understanding exactly what that is, much less how to simulate it in code.
I actually agree with you but it seems that scientists are very worried about AI. Not that they know more but it is worrisome... Could be that intuition can be replaced with pragmatism... Who knows at this point.
Just google it. I am on my phone, MS has said it many times.
> Just google it. I am on my phone, MS has said it many times.
aft_lizard is correct.
If you think about it, every copy of Windows you buy comes with a license that never expires (the OS does not ever stop working), you get upgrades (Service Packs) that significantly increase functionality for free for typically 5 years, and updates that improve security for free until end-of-life, typically a decade or more after first release. Windows 7, for example, got upgrades from release in Fall 2009 until a few months ago, and will be getting free security updates until some time in 2020.
Microsoft is desperate to have people adopt Windows 10 -- they're giving it away for free for the first year to Win7 and Win8.1 users. But they are also cognizant that they recently enforced end-of-life for WinXP, and it became very noisy (it's still pretty noisy). So it's not unreasonable that in an effort to address people's concern about end-of-life, that they would promise free updates "forever".
I think you hit on the real reason in the first sentence above. Microsoft really wants everyone/as many as they can get on the same version of the OS which will really help them focus their development and support efforts vs. covering Windows 10, 8, 8.x, 7 and XP. I know, XP has been end of life and "not supported" by Microsoft, still every once in awhile I see some malicious software removal update come through the sole Windows XP VM I use for one of my amateur radio hobbies.
"Free" is their key to driving adoption of the new OS and eliminating what they'll call "legacy versions."
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