When it launched Windows 8 two years ago, Microsoft was trying to introduce an entirely new approach to desktop computing. But for a lot of average computer users, the experiment didn’t work.
Just a year later, Microsoft had to walk back some of its changes in a Windows 8.1 update. On Wednesday, the company said that it will extend anti-virus support for the decade-old Windows XP for another year, indicating that there’s still a large group of customers that are hesitant to move beyond the 2001 operating system.
And late last week Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott reported that the company is moving quickly to Windows 9, code-named “Threshold,” which will “wipe the slate clean” of Windows 8.
Microsoft declined to comment on speculation about any of its future announcements.
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