Microsoft describes Windows Me as "an initial step towards delivering on Microsoft's vision for home users".
As Ballmer describes Windows 8, Surface and Phone, he says that the products have been done right and the company is working very closely with developers, unlike his counterparts at Apple and Google.
That's not to say that Box's customers have been clamoring for WP7 support: Levie describes Windows Phones as "still emerging" when he talks to Box's enterprise customers.
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Frank Gillet, an analyst at Forrester, described Windows 8 as an "original and impressive response to new technologies and competition" and said it was the most radical overhaul since the original Windows replaced DOS in 1995.
Ms. Reller described Windows Blue several times as an "update" to Windows 8, though she wouldn't say whether the software would be available free to people who have already bought Windows 8 computers.
At Microsoft's event at a mountaintop hotel here, Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows division, described Windows 8 as a "generational change" in how the company views its suite of products because of the way it creates a "unified OS experience across devices".
This is how Microsoft originally described Windows.
The analyst described Windows Phone as "the only viable third ecosystem" — noting the complete collapse of BlackBerry's OSes, and adding that low-cost Firefox OS remains a potential challenger but has yet to make any significant dent.
"At first it was light, but it lasted a long time and got stronger," said Maria Jaramillo, 36, a resident of Guayaquil, describing windows breaking and roofs disintegrating and falling to the street below.
