{"id":20300,"date":"2014-08-22T15:44:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T10:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=20300"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T10:14:03","slug":"microsoft-to-unveil-windows-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/microsoft-to-unveil-windows-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to unveil Windows 9 on September 30th? | Leaked Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 9 may be coming sooner than originally thought. According to the reports, Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event on <strong>September 30th<\/strong> to detail upcoming changes to Windows.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a &#8220;Technological preview&#8221; version meant for developers and early adopters the report says.\u00a0 The date may change, but the Windows 9 version is currently in development and Microsoft plans to release a preview version on September 30th or shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20304\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2014\/08\/Start-Menu-Windows-9-768x484.png\" alt=\"Start Menu Windows 9\" width=\"768\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/Start-Menu-Windows-9-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/Start-Menu-Windows-9.png 1110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Windows 9 which is codenamed &#8220;<strong>Threshold<\/strong>&#8221; will revamp Windows to address some key usability problems of Windows 8. It\u2019s still unclear exactly how many of Windows 9\u2032s most anticipated features will actually make it into the final product.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20305\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2014\/08\/Windows-9-Settings-641x513.jpg\" alt=\"Windows 9 Settings\" width=\"641\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/Windows-9-Settings-641x513.jpg 641w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/Windows-9-Settings.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the anticipated features include resurrected Start menu and Metro apps running on the Desktop. It is reported that Microsoft is planning to remove its <strong>Charms bar<\/strong> \u2013 the right-side overlay used to access search, share, settings and so on. <strong>Virtual desktop concept<\/strong> may also come to Windows 9. Apple\u2019s OS X, and many Linux distros already come with support for virtual desktops. At present Windows users have to depend on third-party software for virtual desktop experience. Another highly anticipated feature is the return of shutdown on Start.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20306\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2014\/08\/windows-9-start-menu-metro-desktop-apps-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"windows-9-start-menu-metro-desktop-apps-640x360\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the Windows 9, Microsoft is trying to woo desktop users and trying hard to bring resemblance to Windows 7 with its next iteration of desktop OS.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20308\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2014\/08\/windows-8-metro-desktop-100360567-orig-684x513.png\" alt=\"windows-8-metro-desktop-100360567-orig\" width=\"684\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/windows-8-metro-desktop-100360567-orig-684x513.png 684w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/windows-8-metro-desktop-100360567-orig-120x90.png 120w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/windows-8-metro-desktop-100360567-orig.png 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which version of windows are you using? Will you upgrade to Windows 9 or you happy with your current OS? Let us know in your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 9 may be coming sooner than originally thought. According to the reports, Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event on September 30th to detail upcoming changes to Windows. It will be a &#8220;Technological preview&#8221; version meant for developers and early adopters the report says.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[115,110],"class_list":["post-20300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-windows","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}