Windows Blue to Be Offered for Free to Windows 8 Users

It's not a service pack by definition of what a service pack is. People can and will argue what it is; I'm telling you what it isn't.
 
Why don't we just call a spade a spade? ;)

The Blue wave of updates, which, don't forget, go beyond Windows itself, are a new type of broad product upgrade based on a new cycle.

I don't understand why we have to assign old labels to new ways of doing things.

We just know that this upcoming raft of update goes by the codename Blue. I'm sure Microsoft will reveal an appropriately ridiculous name for the final release when they see fit, but until then that's all we've got.
 
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Why don't we just call a spade a spade? ;)

The Blue wave of updates, which, don't forget, go beyond Windows itself, are a new type of broad product upgrade based on a new cycle.

I don't understand why we have to assign old labels to new ways of doing things.

We just know that this upcoming raft of update goes by the codename Blue. I'm sure Microsoft will reveal an appropriately ridiculous name for the final release when they see fit, but until then that's all we've got.
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First release will be Blue, then Special Edition, followed by the Optimal and finally Deluxe. :p
 
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It's not a service Pack, it's not "Windows 8 SP1". Service packs are largely a roll up of the fixes and updates already released through Windows Update. It provides a fresh point for builds and a baseline for developers to set as a requirement (imagine setting as a requirement Windows 8 followed by 14 difefrent KBarticles as a dependency).

Windows Blue adds features and expands the products and is no more a Service pack than Chrome 24 is a service back to Chrome 23. It's more about moving to a model of releasing features and functionality little and often rather than a single massive update every 3 years.
 
As far as I could tell is that windows was just going to continually evolve via these blue updates.

You won't need to install a new OS. Blue would just continually update windows. It blurs the line between a new OS and a major OS update. My understanding is that this is the direction MS wanna take, rather than keep releasing new OS's.
 
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