What is Windows Coming to...and where it has been

Microsoft ends retail sales for Windows 8, coincides with end of sales of consumer versions of Windows 7 on new PCs.

No date has yet been set for when sales of Windows 8 via manufacturers will end — and Microsoft has said, it will

continue to support the operating system until January 2023. Windows 8.1 is still available at retail and no date

has been set for the end of sales yet.

As of 31 Oct 2014, Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, and Ultimate are no longer be available to buy installed

on PCs, according to Microsoft. Sales of Windows 7 Professional will continue and MS will give a year's notice of the

end of sale date Win7 Pro.

Microsoft would love to see PC Users keeping up with Microsoft Windows versions at a faster pace...however some

of PC Users, are still using WinXP, and Windows 7, having not made the move.

Windows XP hangs in there with 17.2 percent of PCs connecting to the web

Windows 7, at 53 percent and Windows 8 and 8.1 together account for 16.8 percent

So what Happened to Windows 9 (code name "Threshold") ? may be released Spring 2015, but do not hold your

breath, as it might be a cover for Windows 10.

Windows 9 will be aimed at desktop users who never wanted the drastic design overhaul of Windows 8. Desktop

users will get their classic Start menu back, popping up in the bottom-left corner instead of taking over the entire

screen as it does in Windows 8.

Windows 10 may be the last, meaning no Windows 11, 12, 13, etc., with Windows 10, making the transition from

a software licensing model to a cloud computing one. Thus Users will become Subscribers to Microsoft's Cloud

Computing.  This maybe taking place in 2015.

Windows 10 Screen Shots

And if some of Us Users, prefer buying PC's with installed Operating Systems and do not wish the Cloud, what then ?

Of the Windows 7 Users today, we may have until 2020 before Windows 7 becomes obsolete to some degree and

unsupported.

Windows Time-Line