Windows 8 - RIP?

It's behind a paywall so I can't get details, but:

In reference to www.ft.com/home/uk:

From COMPANIES 5:02am

Microsoft prepares U-turn on Windows 8

Failure on a par with �New Coke� fiasco nearly 30 years ago

The article basically says that there will be another version of Windows and that it won't be identical to Windows 8. Who'd have thought it.

Post deleted by BatBoy

And that Google search is helpful... how?

All it does is refer (directly in one case, indirectly in the other) to the FT article I quoted. Both, you may note, timestamped before my post- I'd seen both of them.

Go back to bed.

Edited by billford (Tue 07-May-13 08:24:02)

You can register with the FT and get/read a number of articles/month free of charge.
After that if you want to access more stuff then yes, you do need to pay.
I Think the D.Telegraph is/has going the same way.

http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2013/05/why-the-start-... - free access to blogs and to a handful of articles per week if you're signed up (free).

I set up Win 8 for a guy who had gone and bought it as Vista was slow and getting on his nerves. With a bit of shuffling around his Metro start screen now meets his needs - the two tiles top left are Internet and Email which is all he does really.

Will it be Windows 6.3 I wonder ?

In reply to a post by zom22:

You can register with the FT and get/read a number of articles/month free of charge.

Yes, I noticed that, but as the full article would still be unavailable to those without any form of registration I didn't see the point of giving the link to it.

On behalf of others- thanks for the heads-up though.

In reply to a post by yarwell:

Will it be Windows 6.3 I wonder ?

What was Windows 6 on planet Yarwell?

In reply to a post by billford:

And that Google search is helpful... how?

All it does is refer (directly in one case, indirectly in the other) to the FT article I quoted. Both, you may note, timestamped before my post- I'd seen both of them.

Go back to bed.

It allows you to bypass the paywall

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

What was Windows 6 on planet Yarwell?

Vista, obviously.

http://www.computerhope.com/whow.htm

6.1 was Windows 7 - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows7/release-... "This window displays the version and edition of Windows you're running. The final release version of Windows 7 is Version 6.1 "

Edited by yarwell (Tue 07-May-13 09:27:24)