Microsoft announces Windows 10, promises ‘One product family. One platform. One store.’

At its Windows event in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced the next release of Windows. Known until now as codename Threshold, the successor to Windows 8 will officially be known as Windows 10. Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Operating System, unveiled the name, after saying Windows is used by about 1.5 billion people. “Windows is at a Threshold and now it’s time for a new Windows,” Myerson said at the event. “It wouldn’t be right to call it Windows 9.” Before giving the new name, Myerson trolled everyone by saying it would be called Windows One. Since Windows...

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