Microsoft's next major update, code-named "Threshold," will begin paving the way for a more common experience across the Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox platforms, according to a new report.
ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley reports that the three OSes will be tied together by a series of "high-value activities," which will apparently be apps shared across the three platforms: Office, Bing, IT management, and "fun" apps that presumably mean games of some sort.
Threshold is due in Spring 2015, Foley reports, following a spring 2014 update that will be known as an "Update 1" to Windows 8.1.
In some sense, Threshold simply extends the line that Microsoft has been drawing for the past few quarters. Microsoft Office now spans Windows, Windows RT, and Windows Phone, although its implementation on the latter mobile OS is rudimentary at best. (And, of course, it's a pretty dubious proposition to suggest that gamers will want to "play" PowerPoint on their Xbox One console.) We still don't know if Microsoft will axe Windows RT in favor of Windows 8; so far, it's still standing.
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