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Windows 9 is an operating system developed by Microsoft. A radical departure from previous versions of Windows, it features a Unix-based environment based on the Linux kernel and a GNU user-space, providing stability and flexibility that has been lauded by the developer community as a long-overdue, but ultimately necessary step for the platform. Among the features include a version of Notepad that works with Unix line-endings, a command prompt that supports resizable terminal windows and a full port of ], plus a fully compliant POSIX environment allowing the vast majority of Unix-based tools to run under the system. Most impressively, it supports full backwards compatibility with earlier versions of Windows via ] and even DOS, via ] |
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One of the most significant advances was the abandonment of drive letters and the \ character as path separators, to comply with the industry standard of / for paths and a single root directory upon which arbitrary filesystems can be mounted. Windows 9 also includes a fully-compatbile implementation of X windows, and is distributed with ready-to-use versions of popular scripting languages such as python, perl, ruby, and node.js. The legacy ] scripting language has been deprecated, but is still included for backwards compatibility. |
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The operating system has been praised by many for its adoption of long-regonised industry standards and open source technologies, such as ], which facilitates the support of advanced web technologies. While some have expressed concern that this may lead to a homogenisation of many of the technologies in use{{Citation needed}}, the development community has welcomed the compatibility benefits. |
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Although development of Windows 9 was under development for a period of around five years, and generally recognised as the the most promising way forward for the platform by many within Microsoft{{Citation needed}}, it was never released to the public. On September 30, 2014, it was announced that it would instead be skipped in favour of a slightly modified version of Windows 8 with a resurrected start menu, distributed under the name ]. |
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