Where will Microsoft take the operating system in the future?

As expected, Microsoft will soon launch a new upgrade for Windows 8.1 Update 1. While the changes included in this upgrade are intriguing, it is a matter of greater concern that Microsoft will choose how to develop the windows in the future if it is to be more far-sighted. A few days ago, science and technology website TechRadar on the future development of Windows forecast: Recently, the next update on Windows 8 Update 1 of the news has surfaced, which makes many people about the changes in Windows is full of doubt. Has Microsoft watered down its ambitious expectations for Windows 8 because of complaints and doubts? Update 1 is actually not Windows 8.2? Although the company's new president, Satya Nadella, is committed to balancing the needs of both business and consumer customers, rather than focusing on one side. While mobile devices account for 14% of corporate earnings, there is still a voice calling for Microsoft to focus on existing PC users who do not have touch-screen devices. Microsoft is expected to bring an earlier version of update 1 to the outside world at the April build Convention. For now, we need to analyze the leaked information and rumors we have seen to get a better understanding of Microsoft's strategy. Keep in mind that Microsoft's current strategy is to become a device and service company, not a platform company. Windows is still important, but Microsoft wants to sell not windows, but devices and related services. The next version of Windows needs to be excellent to ensure that existing Office subscribers will continue to pay, rather than work on Office Online. At the same time, the new version also needs to showcase Bing search and other services, while leveraging the advantages of OneDrive and becoming the ideal platform for power BI Business intelligence data Analysis Services. The idea of Ballmer and Gates is a high-value activity, and Nadella is now talking about making decisions (which may be Bing), completing tasks (Bing Apps), and making interactive documents through office and other applications. When Ballmer said in the reorganization memo that these documents are readable in the browser, but if you use our tools to read, annotate, or display, and the user experience is infinitely better, what he describes may be the new Power BI service, which allows users to create reports in Excel, and in Windows 8 applications interact with the data, and if you have a browser, you can still read the documents. This is the service aspect, and we expect Windows to bring in more in the 2015 upgrades. Microsoft is expected to launch the upgrade next year named Threshold, covering the Xbox, Windows and Windows Phone three major platforms. These features are not necessarily rolled out at the same time, especially the commercial version of Windows. Consumers are really ready to meet their own upgrades, said Terry Mterson, executive vice president of Microsoft's operating systems group, at last year's Credit Suisse investor conference, but in the enterprise, it wants control. We communicate with these two types of customers in the rhythm, or say the way is different. Windows 8.1 has both normal and professional two versions, which are rolled out at the same time. But I'm not sure this is the right way to serve the consumer market, and continuing to serve the business market may be the right path. More mobile windows on the device side, the future of Windows needs to reflect its value in tablets, even smartphones. Last year, Julie Larson-green, Microsoft's new head of Windows, said that Microsoft might reduce the number of versions of Windows. Most people think this suggests that Microsoft will incorporate Windows Phone and Windows RT. But even if the former Windows Phone director, Terry Myerson, began to run Windows (in fact, the department is called the operating system group, Nadella and others generally refer to it as the core system team), this does not mean that Microsoft intends to cut off Windows RT. As Julie Larson-green said at the time, our confirmation of a more mobile operating system will one day stop worrying about endurance or the risk of security (the full version of Windows). This vision is not possible with Windows Phone, taking into account Microsoft's commitment to building a unified Windows App Store and implementing interoperability and compatibility between Windows Phone and Windows 8/rt. A hybrid operating system would make sense for both the tablet and the big screen handset market. Myerson last year also talked about a way (but no mention of system integration), which is to increase the appeal to developers. We want to have a platform that works for all devices so that developers can target the total size of Microsoft (equipment). But a platform is not the same everywhere. Each type of device does require a unique, customized experience ... To really please the consumer. The Xbox has its own magical experience on a 4-foot screen, but I don't have it on my 4-inch phone. Again, I don't want to enlarge windows Phone to a 4-foot screen. With UI tuning or switching, Windows RT applications can now be adapted to smaller screen sizes. Doing this on the start screen, plus a larger, higher-resolution screen allows you to open more windows at the same time, a generic operating system that adjusts the interface depending on the type of device is not hard to imagine. After all IOThat's what s doing. And the desktop model will get something, which is our concern. It has been reported earlier that update 1 will go straight to the desktop after powering up, but it appears to be a bug rather than a deliberate one. For desktop users, they may see integration with the Windows App Store, or even more. We all like to switch between all open applications by sliding the gesture of switching, whether it's in desktop mode or in the App Store. Windows phone does not and does not require desktop mode. Windows RT requires desktop mode to run Office applications and full version of IE browser, file management, and more settings in the Control Panel. When the touchscreen version of Office arrives, does desktop mode have a good reason to disappear? Or do we see the incremental of the feature to add to the usability of the desktop model? If the functionality you need is not available in the current version of Windows that your device is running on, you might be able to use it in a streaming fashion. It is rumored that Microsoft is developing a streaming service that allows users to use Windows desktop versions in the cloud, or to stream Xbox games to Windows Phone and Windows Rt. Free mode? Services like these are clearly paid for, if they do exist. In addition, do you still need to pay for Windows? At the annual shareholder meeting last November, Mr. Ballmer said the mode of selling software on DVD will no longer exist in 10 years, instead providing a cloud service to deliver and upgrade the software. This might still be a fee, like buying Windows 8 and getting a free Windows 8.1 upgrade. Given that Android is a free policy, the problem with selling Windows to OEMs is how you really drive value and monetization, Ballmer said. This still sounds to be a service and a high-value activity, and these will be based on threshold. After threshold, Windows may experience changes that are more aggressive than the annual routine upgrades such as Windows 8.1 and update 1. Microsoft Research Director Rick Rashid was in the early years of operating system development (he was one of the Unix kernel Mash developers and Mac OS X was the kernel), and as part of a Microsoft reorganization, he returned to the product development post. And Rashid may bring Drawdridge and Midori these projects to Microsoft's future products. Drawdridge is a study of the operating system, it will be for security needs of the application of the degree of independence, but there is no virtualization defects. Midori's development aims to ensure that MThe development of #编程语言能够应付复杂内容 (such as the operating system), and m# is the future that makes it possible to write more secure operating systems. Similarly, the earlier Singularity OS also explores security improvements by being independent of processes. A research project to completely replace Windows is very unlikely. But with decades of research experience Rashid back to the system team, Microsoft's arrangement for Windows is clearly much more than the small changes in Update 1.