{"id":114784,"date":"2015-05-08T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=114784"},"modified":"2015-05-08T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T16:27:10","slug":"microsoft-to-end-windows-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/microsoft-to-end-windows-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to ‘end’ Windows versions"},"content":{"rendered":"
Windows 10 is going to be the last major revision of the operating system.<\/p>\n
Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft development executive, said in a conference speech this week that Windows 10 would be the “last version” of the dominant desktop software.<\/p>\n
His comments were echoed by Microsoft which said it would update Windows in future in an “ongoing manner”.<\/p>\n
Instead of new stand-alone versions, Windows 10 would be improved in regular instalments, the firm said.<\/p>\n
Mr Nixon made his comments during Microsoft’s Ignite conference held in Chicago this week.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Microsoft said Mr Nixon’s comments reflected a change in the way that it made its software.<\/p>\n
“Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner,” it said, adding that it expected there to be a “long future” for Windows.<\/p>\n
‘No Windows 11’<\/strong><\/p>\n The company said it had yet to decide on what to call the operating system beyond Windows 10.<\/p>\n “There will be no Windows 11,” warned Steve Kleynhans, a research vice-president at analyst firm Gartner who monitors Microsoft.<\/p>\n He said Microsoft had in the past deliberately avoided using the name “Windows 9” and instead chose Windows 10 as a way to signify a break with a past which involved successive stand-alone versions of the operating system.<\/p>\n However, he said, working in that way had created many problems for Microsoft and its customers.<\/p>\n “Every three years or so Microsoft would sit down and create ‘the next great OS’,” he said.<\/p>\n