Windows 8, introduced in 2012, ushered in some of the biggest changes in Windows history. Windows 8 is meant to be a single piece of software that works seamlessly across traditional laptops, hybrids, ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on September 16 but was updated September 29 with additional information. Windows 9. Threshold. Or just plain Windows. Whatever Microsoft ends up ...

On Tuesday Microsoft will preview the next-generation Windows operating system – currently codenamed Windows Threshold, but expected to be called Windows 9 – and it will be a keystone to Microsoft's ...

Will there ever be a Windows 9 now that Microsoft has gone ahead and called its newest operating system Windows 10? Probably. We're not sure what Microsoft is doing here, but we are definitely ...

The latest Windows 9 leaks, showing a Start-menu fusion of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, beg the question: Microsoft, why are you scooping ice cream over a hot dog? (Editor’s Note: It’s also worth ...

Microsoft is holding a press briefing Tuesday to broadly discuss the future of Windows, but the expectation is that the company will also introduce specifics of Windows 9, including features such as ...

The upcoming new version of Windows received an unintentional pitch with a brief post and logo courtesy of Microsoft China. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Good news, Windows 8 and 8.1 haters! Windows 9 will get rid of the Charms menu that stores Search, Settings, and other portals to the operating system’s Metro UI, a report says. The Charms menu is one ...

How do you predict the future? It’s easy: There’s going to be a Windows 9 in a few years. As for what might be inside Microsoft’s future operating system, however, that’s a whole ‘nother ballgame.

Microsoft tried to kill the Desktop in Windows 8, but with Windows 9 the Desktop may well take center stage again. Reports says that the next Windows release, due possibly in the middle of 2015, may ...

The idea that you have to have Windows 8 before Windows 9 is obvious from the sheer logic of the naming convention—of course 9 comes after 8. Beyond the naming, though, the latest Windows operating ...