Microsoft to merge all sepearte version of Windows into one

[greener]

Will my phone be compatible with desktop applications now?

Yeah that would be awesome. We'll have to wait for intel to get more into phones first though.

[linusforsell]

Finally, and while they are at at I hope they add in automagic sync between PCs as well, making all devices stay up to date neatly.

[Misanthrope]

IKR? This seems like it would actually take more people to integrate each OS together and make it actually work.

Well that's not really that new. For some reason Barnacules still talks highly of them as an employer, but they're actually quite shitty: their "culture" is aimed at basically working you to the fucking bone, setting incredibly aggressive deadlines but not paying a dime of overtime and other practices like that.

The sad part is that so many people want to be in software development and IT fields it's overly saturated so this kind of labour abuse has become "industry standard" Working at places like Valve or Google is a rarity.

[rashdanml]

Pretty obvious direction if you ask me. Metro being introduced on Windows 8 after tablets was a clear indication.

[flibberdipper]

IKR? This seems like it would actually take more people to integrate each OS together and make it actually work.

Exactly what I'm thinking, and I'm tired, so that's saying something.

[Linus_torvalds]

Satya you better kill bing and XBOX projects and focus on PC GAMING! Otherwise soon mantle will be on Linux! Games will be on Linux, because of Steam OS and good bye windows. Who would need that creepy OS? 

[Yummychickenblue]

So does that mean using a surface for a server would be a bad idea?

I would totally go around hosting a mass game server on a Surface.

[kuddlesworth9419]

Windows 9 will be sh*t.

[PortentousLad]

Apps that work on all kinds of Windows? Way to go MS!

[NICKT]

Here we go, now we're on the path to getting a UI that's designed for touch-surfaces on desktop PC's.

 

About as annoying as many sites these days being designed with mobiles in mind and barely take up half of a single moniter. Twitter and Youtube come to mind in that regard, fucking mobiles and tablets, jesus christ, wish I could just go back and live in the years before the iPhone over and over again.

[EChondo]

I don't know how to feel about this because it isn't properly explained by Microsoft.

 

Microsoft, you failed with your original plans for the Xbox One because you aren't bothering with explaining anything and you're repeating that same thing, right now, with this decision.

 

What are you merging? Windows Desktop with mobile? Desktop with Server? Server with Mobile? Desktop, Server, and Mobile? Why are you doing this? What does this mean to us consumers? If I buy Windows 9, will that one license be valid on my surface, desktop and server as well? Will I need to have a Windows account because of DRM? Will a single Windows 9 installation have the option for desktop or server?

 

You're pulling a Xbone right now. I thought with Nadella on board we would start seeing actual thinking going on with the company, but it's pretty apparent that you're still idiots.

[mr moose]

It's not a very well written article, but it sounds to me like they are trying to making all the different windows devices i.e phones, tablets, laptops compatible with each other so developers only have to code for one os and it will work on any windows devices including xbox <-  freak, no more exclusives?????.

 

I wouldn't be at all surprised if windows server maintained a separate developer team (because its intended use is quite different), but still used the front end from windows X.

[mr moose]

I don't know how to feel about this because it isn't properly explained by Microsoft.

 

Microsoft, you failed with your original plans for the Xbox One because you aren't bothering with explaining anything and you're repeating that same thing, right now, with this decision.

 

What are you merging? Windows Desktop with mobile? Desktop with Server? Server with Mobile? Desktop, Server, and Mobile? Why are you doing this? What does this mean to us consumers? If I buy Windows 9, will that one license be valid on my surface, desktop and server as well? Will I need to have a Windows account because of DRM? Will a single Windows 9 installation have the option for desktop or server?

 

You're pulling a Xbone right now. I thought with Nadella on board we would start seeing actual thinking going on with the company, but it's pretty apparent that you're still idiots.

 

So your basing your decision that MS are failures and idiots on a poorly written article taking it's info from a financial address?

[MuffinTopMike]

I wish Bill Gates would come back to Microsoft...

[antoainb]

Windows on ARM is possible. Windows RT is just that. It could point that "Windows RT" will be be open like the x86 version that we use.

As for Windows Server I think it will still be sold separately, but Windows Server team will be same as the current Windows (which, that, was probably already the case).

I think what Microsoft meant, is Windows Phone, Windows, and Windows RT.

 

But what about programs, will Windows programs run on ARM?

 

Yeah, probably.

[ShadowCaptain]

Has anyone used Windows Server 2012? Having the Windows 8 interface on a server is really annoying.

 

Yes its quite irritating but luckily I barely have to touch my server

[Nomelas]

i think it's more or less talking about mobile and desktop

[Trik'Stari]

Anyone else seeing horns on the new CEO's head? I am.

 

And now we know why they randomly laid off 18000 people.

[shujin]

Ok so they will merge all their shit into one big piece of shit.

 

Ok more seriously this is cool but I feel this should have be done way before.

[Mister Snow]

 

from ExtremeTech article 

[Priller]

Has anyone used Windows Server 2012? Having the Windows 8 interface on a server is really annoying.

 

2012 R2 yes.

 

It's not that bad. I find it better to use then Windows 8.1 for some reason.

[RH00D]

Here we go, now we're on the path to getting a UI that's designed for touch-surfaces on desktop PC's.

 

About as annoying as many sites these days being designed with mobiles in mind and barely take up half of a single moniter. Twitter and Youtube come to mind in that regard, fucking mobiles and tablets, jesus christ, wish I could just go back and live in the years before the iPhone over and over again.

They said they will merge the OSes not the UI. People often assume that what they see is the OS but that is not true (just look at any linux distro where you can swap out a UI for another or just not even use a GUI at all.) The UI is the method of interacting with the OS. So they will have one OS that will present a different UI based on the form factor of the device or input method being used (a UI for KB/M and a UI for touch screens). The user won't have to select, it will just use the correct one automatically.

[totjup5]

This seems like a terrible idea.

[Opcode]

This seems like a terrible idea.

It's not, anyone with programming background such as myself will tell you it makes life a hell of a lot easier. Why manage several different branches of code among small teams, when you could have one big team collaborate on just a single branch of code. The idea behind this is to simply create a master source that works universal across all platforms. The operating system can easily detect what platform it is running on (x86, ARM, etc) and can execute only the code necessary for that particular platform. It is a brilliant idea and a logical step towards better maintaining cross platform source. Canonical plans on doing the very exact same thing with Ubuntu, so this practice has already been adopted in the field of operating systems.

[totjup5]

It's not, anyone with programming background such as myself will tell you it makes life a hell of a lot easier. Why manage several different branches of code among small teams, when you could have one big team collaborate on just a single branch of code. The idea behind this is to simply create a master source that works universal across all platforms. Specify what the source should be compiled for (x86, ARM, etc) and the compiler directives will handle the rest. It is a brilliant idea and a logical step towards better maintaining cross platform source.

It may be good from a coding standpoint. But it will be very difficult to create a UI that will fit all of the different platforms running the os. Different types of users will use the os in different ways, and it will be difficult to make them all happy with a one size fits all approach.