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Will the supposed successor to Microsoft's Windows be released before May 2015?

Background: So far, many IT professionals are speculating that Microsoft will drop the current Windows line of OS's and create an entirely new OS, currently nicknamed "Midori". Will Microsoft release the first version of this possibly new successor to Windows before May of 2015?

Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.

 
Forecast history %
Yes
39%
No
61%
Question suspends in 5 years

Suspend date: Thu 30th Apr 2015 11:59pm PST (5 years to go)

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 35%

Action history:

Created Wed 27th Aug 2008 2:28pm PST by napoleon1805

Suspend date: Thu 30th Apr 2015 11:59pm PST (5 years to go) details

 

Predictions (41)

7 weeks ago
silvermchic predicted No (H$300 at 61%)
16 weeks ago
duncan_idaho predicted Yes (H$100 at 39%)
39 weeks ago
chathura predicted Yes (H$80 at 39%)
39 weeks ago
growthy predicted Yes (H$100 at 39%)
39 weeks ago
fourgrays predicted Yes (H$50 at 39%)

Comments (4)

  1 tomg[Admin]
Admin note: I moved the suspend date to Apr 30th 2015
posted 1 year ago
  2 s99nj
6 year suspend date!
posted 1 year ago
  3 autotom
lol yeah i'll bid on this in 5 years, 10 months time..
posted 1 year ago
  4 pixydee
Too early to bet however I believe they will because Windows was not build to deal with the ever improvements in hardware and it uses too much system resources and is too bloated.
posted 25 weeks ago

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