http://www.winbeta.org/news/rumor-mill-windows-9-hit-beta-may-year-release-candidate-close-september Windows 8 just come out a little over a year ago, and now Microsoft is gearing up for a 9 release this year. I guess they're just going to keep pumping these rushed OS's out and eventually force everyone to upgrade to their newest OS if we want access to certain drivers or features that should already exist on older versions. After 9, they have mentioned making 10 a Cloud based OS. Essentially, your entire OS will be run on a server farm somewhere hundreds of miles away and will be streamed to you over the internet. I bet tons of people will ignore the privacy concerns and will willingly let Microsoft do whatever they want with their data. As for me, though, I'll be sticking with 7 on my desktop and laptop. I'm good at making devices last, so hopefully I won't have to experience these atrocities from Microsoft.
Yeah.. Shoot, 7 should be supported by games and other apps for a long time to come, so I see no real reason to buy into Microsoft's latest offerings. I wish I could keep up with Mac OS, but the Mac Pro I picked up is one of the earliest models, and so features a 32-bit EFI. I had to make a modified install disc just to get Win 7 to install on it; OS X is more stubborn even than that.
I use linux on all my personal computers. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why people continue on the MS merry-go-round of continually degrading performance and forward incompatability. Especially in light of the inherant security problems that MS refuses to fix.
I am using Windows 7. I packed this computer away and bought Windows 8 but hated it with a passion, so I dug out Windows 7 again. If 9 is anything like 8, I won't buy it and may just put Windows 7 in this new computer.
Well if history holds, Windows 9 might not be bad... Seems like Microsoft gets it right about every other OS. 95- a reach that had issues 98- good NT - a reach that had issues XP - Good Vista - a reach that had issues 7 - Good 8 - A reach that had issues 9- ?
i am running windows 8.1 it rocks a super fast bootup 4 times as fast as windows 7 and i change the start tab to the classic 7 windows using classicshell http://www.classicshell.net/
If Window 9 is as horrible as Window 8, I will never get to it! I bought a brand new HP laptop last year, and hated the Window 8 system so bad, that I left my new laptop sitting on my desk and purchased an apple! Very happy with the switch too! When my husband HP which is still running on Window 7 gives up (and it's probably about time it did!), I'm not sure what he will do!
windows 8/ 8.1 can run great just needs to be tuned up by removing the interface and add a start menu everyone hates go to time 3:50 video here [video=youtube;ppzxvu4ZRwA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppzxvu4ZRwA[/video]
Windows 7 is a decent OS. Win 8 is crap until you put something like Classic Shell on it. 8.1 is to be avoided until they get the wifi drivers working. Win 8 is a failure, pure and simple, you cannot treat all systems as tablets or phones. I want 3 or 4 applications (not apps) running on screen (preferably with 2 or 3 monitors) at all times, you don't do that with tablets or phones. If Win 9 is going to meet with market acceptance it will need to bring back the desktop as a default option on desktop computers and it will need to have a fully functional start button.
I love Windows 8 !!! I think it's so cool! The only thing I hate is that they started adding complicated details back into Windows in the 8.1 update. Making things slower and buggy. It says that Windows 9 is going backwards even a bit more to please the geeks. I'm not sure I want this direction... But, in any case, I won't be getting Windows 9 anytime soon. I just got my new Windows 8 PC earlier this year. I'm good for the next 5 years until my computer dies again... Maybe I'll get Windows 9 like a few months before Microsoft releases Windows 10... That'll show them!
The only problem I've had with Windows 8, other than upgrading from the 8.1 beta to 8.1, is that they attempt to force the metro interface (whatever they're calling it now). I hear Windows 9 won't do that, which is great. I will say though that with a touchscreen the Metro interface is good. I bought a touchscreen laptop because initially I was excited to try combined apps that would work on win8 desktop and phone (then realized the phone was more locked down than an iPhone and went back to android), but I will say that as a touch screen interface it's very nice. The problem is that you still end up using a mouse and keyboard for anything other than media because touchscreens blow for anything other than media. If they divorce the two OS's (Win8 and Metro), which I hear they may be doing (Win8 apps can be launched on the desktop, presumably as a normal application), then it will be a good deal for anyone with a touchscreen. As for Linux I've tried but I'm not a fan. Fact is the vast majority of software is developed for Windows, and without a Windows system you get screwed. I'm hoping that the Steam box may be the kick Linux needs. If it takes off in the console market and people start using it as a PC as well as a gaming box then there could be a real change. Lets face it the reason most people use Windows is because that's what you have at work and that is what you are comfortable with. If you are using Linux, and software on Linux is able to move over to business (replace MS Office), then you could see a real change, especially since a lot of the software is free. Then again you may just end up with more crap like an Apple office which always leaves me asking "why are paying more money to use a system that is not the system used by the business community at large?"
98 was probably my favorite version of windows even though it apparently was full of security holes. To me XP was probably the only one of them that had a true evolutionary step (though I know very little of NT) because it was so incredibly stable. XP wasn't really good for people who like to alter things because it was designed to be virtually dummy proof. 7, unfortunately, brought the blue screen of death back. I stay on 7 even though I do have one unit with 8. I really don't have anything to gain from the new features 8, so I mostly stick with my 7 computers as it is the devil I know.
I will change to windows 8 and I guess the 9 this year. Good news, I hope it will be better. I quit win7.
I bought a brand new Dell laptop last month. There wasn't anything wrong with my Sony Vaio, besides being about three years old and a bit on the slow side. I took back the Dell three days later. Windows 8 was a truly monstrous nightmare. There is no rhyme or reason behind it. It's just out right ridiculous.
My experience was quite different. 7 was the first Windows OS that never gave me the blue screen of death!
I think that 7 is still the best for desktops and laptops. 8 is the best for tablets. I have 8 on one of my desktop and it's not bad but searching is really slow even with indexing off. I had to add the Start button with a little app called Start Menu 8. On the plus side, 8 is stable and hasn't crashed on me yet. I may upgrade to 8.1 because it's supposedly up to 15% smaller.
Interesting. I don't really recall ever getting it on XP, but I get it somewhat regularly--like maybe once every month or two--on 7. That really never bothers me that much though. I miss the little things like it seems when you are copying a bunch of files there is no longer a skip option for the ones that have the same name as the ones in your source destination, which leaves me with an ungodly number of new folders and multiple copies of the same files.
Huh ? Are you mad you can't run the latest software on Win95 ? Windows has NEVER "forced" anyone to upgrade to the latest OS.... but you're quite naive to the infrastructure of an OS if you expect to use one forever.
NT isn't part of the that list. It was a separate version, for networks, and was constantly updated along side vanilla windows.. and later became Windows 2000. But WinME is missing from your list (I'll bet MS wishes ME was missing from it's history).
