14 DAY TRIAL // Even though everyone is talking about Windows 9 these days, word is that Microsoft is also working on another version of Windows that would be based on Satya Nadella’s mobile first, cloud first philosophy.
Internally codenamed Windows 365, the new operating system makes people think of Office 365, a subscription-based productivity suite that works with cloud power to deliver the famous Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other services to users worldwide.
New information that reached the web in the last couple of days reveals that Windows 365 is indeed work in progress at Microsoft, with some profiles on LinkedIn providing a few new details on what could be the very first cloud-based operating system of the Redmond firm.
One of the profiles that have recently been updated on LinkedIn reveals that Windows 365 is a project that tries to combine two different approaches of the last two CEOs of Microsoft. The new OS would thus mix the One Microsoft strategy launched by Steve Ballmer with mobile first, cloud first ideas belonging to Satya Nadella, but it’s not yet clear how exactly this is going to happen.
“Presented at Microsoft HQ to Gonnie Been, the project combined Steve Ballmer’s ‘One strategy, One Microsoft’ approach with Satya Nadella’s ‘Mobile first, cloud first world’ direction. The project involved the new OS platform ‘Windows 365’, which is cloud based and unites all smart devices,” the profile reads, according to a report by Myce.com.
Another profile states that Windows 365 could be an operating system that would become available from multiple devices and would include several customization options offered to users. Cloud power would obviously be the core of the new product, it reads.
“Alignment the one strategy with ‘Mobile first, cloud first’, we generated the ‘Windows 365’ which is an OS platform in cloud enabling users to log into their own customized OS in different devices.”
As it’s usually the case with new Microsoft products, there are no confirmed specifics on Windows 365 and some sources believe that everything could be just an internal project that a Microsoft team is working on right now, with slight chances to ever get the green light.
Until Microsoft publicly talks about its plans to develop a cloud-based operating system, take everything with a pinch of salt. If this is indeed the case and Microsoft really plans to launch such a project, expect the company to comment on it in the coming months as work advances.