Microsoft may revert to separate release schedules for consumer and business versions of Windows, the company's top operating system executive hinted recently.
At a technology symposium hosted by financial services giant Credit Suisse, Tony Myerson acknowledged the operating system adoption chasm between consumers and more conservative corporations. Myerson, who formerly led the Windows Phone team, was promoted in July to head all client-based OS development, including smartphones, tablets, PCs, and the Xbox game console.
"The world has shown that these two different customers really have divergent needs," Myerson said, according to a transcript of his time on stage. "And there may be different cadences, or different ways in which we talk to those two customers. And so [while Windows] 8.1 and [Windows] 8.1 Pro both came at the same time, it's not clear to me that's the right way to serve the consumer market. [But] it may be the right way to continue serving the enterprise market."
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Myerson's comment hinted at a return to a practice of about ten years ago, when Microsoft delivered new operating systems to the company's consumer and commercial customers on different schedules.
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