Windows Blue

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Following on the heels of Windows 8 is reported to be Windows Blue... and it may be free.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-to-Release-Windows-Blue-the-First-Free-Windows-Ever-Rumors-310494.shtml

and more info here

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-blue-the-next-big-windows-8-update

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Looks very interesting; can't wait to hear more. :)

Thanks!

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Going to kick off a "yearly update schedule" eh? There is never an anti-trust lawyer around when you need one. :lol:

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I am *not* upgrading OS'es every year. Yeh, sorry..

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Hopefully it will take on a more simplified system of upgrading, like upgrading an Android (or iOS?) system.

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A free annual update of the Operating System would be fine by me,

BUT ONLY IF all my installed third party applications and utilities and licences were automatically copied and correctly merged as part of the update.

I think that would require either putting the clock back to the good old days when every application had its own INI file,

or absolute segregation between O.S. and application registry hives.

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I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that only the initial release will be free. I think they plan to make it a subscription like office 365. MIcrosoft will basically be trying to mimic apples minor OSX update schedule.

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Subscription OS'es? Not for me..

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seems all a bit pie-in-the-sky at this early stage.

Blue so soon after Win8, a free OS - all new territory for MS.

but good find Hazelnut. that's the first i've heard about it. be interested to see what my monthly mag says about it next time.

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I would never use an OS if I couldn't at least re-install it from a CD/DVD when disaster strikes and since it's Windows a disaster would eventually happen. It would be a complete pain in the backside to have to re-install some funky old OS to only then have to install an upgrade to a new one - ah things get dumb and dumber. The subscription thing I wouldn't partake in.

If they do this people may not be so inclined to update to newer Windows versions, and I can only imagine a subscription hiccup issue where it effs up sort of like how so many antivirus products turns off prematurely and customer support being of little help whatsoever.

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I think some of us have seen Windows Blue before ...

Windows Blue:

Didn't like it very much at all.

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I think some of us have seen Windows Blue before ...

Windows Blue:

Didn't like it very much at all.

But it is such a lovely color!

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But it is such a lovely color!

But just in case you don't like blue

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2011/01/11/3379158.aspx

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I think some of us have seen Windows Blue before ...

Windows Blue:

Didn't like it very much at all.

Yeah, maybe not a wise decision to call it "Blue" after all due to the dreaded and well known BSOD.

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They probably wanted something "simple"

I recall having too many conversations during the "Windows Mojave" Vista marketing days, whereby people would say "I don't get why people would buy Windows Mojave if it's the same thing as Vista" <_<

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Microsoft kinda randomly picks their code names out of a hat (Mojave, Longhorn, Blue)

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and how many of those names the OS has during developement actually make it to consumer release - i think none.

so Blue will be Win9 or some other hat picked, roll-off-the-tongue, catchy word.

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@mta thus the fact that they are code names ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_technology_code_names

Microsoft ones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_software_codenames

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I love that wikiepdia has a list for everything

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I rather like "Windows Blue". If we can just get past all the bsod and win blew jokes..