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Details of Microsoft’s next major Windows release are rumoured to be unveiled at the firm’s annual Build conference in April this year.

According to Microsoft blogger, Paul Thurrot, Windows 9 (codenamed ‘Threshold’) will see a full return of the Start menu and is planned for release in April 2015.

The new operating system will also allow users to run Metro apps in desktop mode.

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