Microsoft Windows 9 was already being rumored and now a new leaked build seems to confirm the whispers. While the leaked screenshots show a Windows 8.1 Pro watermark, from past experiences we can safely assume that to be the case with very early alpha builds. The new "Hybrid Start Menu" appears to be a mix of the legacy start menu with Metro portion integrated into-it as tiles. Also, it is to be noted that this build 9788 having Windows NT kernel version 6.4 (which is the next kernel version hence Windows 9 not Windows 8.2), which was compiled on July 4 has got no ISO's available/leaked on file-sharing and torrent websites for download so the origin of the leak should be inside Microsoft.

Whispers of an upcoming major update to Microsoft Windows operating-system have already started, according to industry watcher's Microsoft will be discussing the next version of Windows at coming April,2014 BUILD conference. Codenamed 'Threshold', the next version of Windows is expected to be called Microsoft Windows 9 and should be targeted with an speculated release date of April, 2015. While not much is public now, it is expected that a more mature and fixed "Metro 2" design language will be used taking the failure of Windows 8 into consideration.