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Windows 8 wasn’t adopted as enthusiastically as Windows 7. The public has different opinions about the former, some dislike the touch UI and say that it shouldn’t have been introduced for desktop PCs, where some like the new UI changes that Microsoft has made. Microsoft might have relied upon OEM partners to push its latest Windows iteration through their products, which would definitely help in increasing adoption as well as shaping public opinion about Windows 8. However, HP has sided with the majority that favors Windows 7. The manufacturer says on the front page of its website that by “popular demand,” it has decided to bring back Windows 7 PCs.

HP hasn’t just brought back computers powered by Windows 7, it is actually offering an incentive to customers who opt for these PCs. Up to $150 in savings are being offered to customers who purchased a computer with the last-generation OS instead. This move by HP isn’t that surprising to be honest, with rumors circulating that internally Microsoft employees refer to Windows 8 as “the new Vista,” this was bound to happen at some point in time. We all know how badly Vista performed in the market. Recent rumors also suggest that Microsoft might talk about Windows 9 at its BUILD conference in April, with a possible release in April 2015. The company is reportedly looking to give up on the Windows 8 brand and start afresh.

HP Windows 7 PCs Are Back By ‘Popular Demand’ original content from Ubergizmo.

For quite a while now we have been hearing that the next wave of major Windows updates will come under the “Threshold” banner. Microsoft is expected to elaborate on it at its BUILD developers conference in April. The actual release is said to be a year off, Microsoft will reportedly talk in detail about its vision for the future of Windows. According to the latest by the folks at Windows SuperSite, Threshold is expected to be called Windows 9 with release scheduled for April 2015.

The conference itself is said to be focused primarily on Windows Phone and Xbox, while the Threshold announcement is expected to reveal the direction Microsoft is headed in with Windows. The next major update is likely to come with major changes, such as the return of the Start Menu and support for running Metro apps on desktop simultaneously with desktop apps. Rumor has it that Redmond is planning to drop the Windows 8 moniker and start afresh with a totally different brand. Developers shouldn’t expect to get their hands on an early alpha release of Windows 9 though, development won’t reportedly begin until the end of April 2014. The company is currently said to be working out the list of features that it intends to offer in its next major Windows update.

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I will be the first to admit that I would be pretty surprised if the above were to be true, that Microsoft Windows 9 will hit the markets sometime next November. It just feels too soon, and do we really need a next generation desktop operating system even before the entire world has made Windows 8 as their operating system of choice for millions of computers worldwide? One thing’s for sure though, you can bet your bottom dollar that Microsoft is definitely working on a next generation of their desktop operating system, but what they have decided to call it, and when will it roll out to the masses, remain to be seen. It would be a waste of time, too, to speculate on such details.

Win8China, a site that has provided a bunch of Windows leaks in the past which were hits (as well as misses), claimed that the software giant is working on Windows 9 for a tentative November 2014 product launch, and it would be as early as next January where we will be able to check out a beta. This, however, does jive with whispers on the street that Windows would get a yearly operating system update, and Windows Blue being touted to be a Windows 8 update later this year, so what’s stopping Windows 9 from a November 2014 release? All in all, we will be on our toes to make sure that when Windows 9 arrives, we will report it.

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