The upcoming new version of Windows received an unintentional pitch with a brief post and logo courtesy of Microsoft China. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Microsoft’s China division today briefly touted “Windows 9” in a post to the Weibo micro-blogging service, bolstering the speculation that the company will stick to a numerical name for its next OS.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on September 16 but was updated September 29 with additional information. Windows 9. Threshold. Or just plain Windows. Whatever Microsoft ends up ...