Software Images icon An illustration Microsoft's own server before it. You'll be missed foreverPARAGRAPH. These editions are: Windows 8.
Initially promoted as one of the most innovative versions of Windows OS , the adoption of a brand new app development platform in the form of Windows Store apps, support for ARM processors with a feature-limited slim version of the OS, and dramatic reinvention of user interface style have all lead to the middling adoption of this operating system, forcing Microsoft to very quickly move away from Windows 8 OS and improve it with a successor that has managed to become the most successful OS release in the history of the Microsoft Corporation. Windows 8's success was somewhat overshadowed by the subsequent release of Windows 8. Search the Wayback Machine Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass.