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Way back in August, three months before the release of Windows 8, we learnt about the existence of a project at Microsoft codenamed Blue. At the time it wasn’t clear whether this was Windows 9, or some kind of interim update/service pack for Windows 8. Now, if unnamed sources are to be believed, Windows Blue is both of those things: a major update to Windows 8, and also the beginning of a major shift that will result in a major release of Windows every 12 months — just like Apple’s OS X. In other words, Windows Update becomes Windows Upgrade.
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I predict this is going to go over like a lead balloon with 99% of enterprises; while most of the remainders pointyhairs will see this as a way to get fondleslabs (kinda vaguely sorta like) their serfs are demanding while making sure that they can't install any unapproved applications by keeping the corporate standard at least on release behind MS's current standard.
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My thinking: Microsoft's bread and butter is enterprise SA contracts, and they expect the majority of SA licensees are either still upgrading to Win7 or planning to stick with it for a while. Then you can think of Blue as a series of Win8 service packs.
When the "Blue" platform picture looks solid enough and the time is right, enterprises will upgrade. Or not... as is already the case with shops still using XP because, well, it works.
OTOH, most consumers just get whatever ships with the hardware they buy, so this doesn't matter that much.
And finally, this could all be BS strategy talk that will never be implemented.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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