Windows 9 set for release next year

I won't touch Win 8. I have win 3.11 working fine...

:D

And yes, I did finally upgrade to Win 8.1 recently although I was perfectly happy on 7.
 
I won't be installing Windows 8/8.x for as long as I can avoid the need to do so. I have no desire to use that steaming pile of cess.

These Windows releases are becoming far too frequent. They are treating it like something you just reinstall and upgrade on a daily basis. The simple fact is, most people and businesses like a stable OS they can rely on and not have to upgrade it every couple of seconds.
 
Microsoft really need to look at every other piece of software and how it handles updating. An OS update shouldn't need you to reinstall anything, and it definitely shouldn't require you to mess around changing boot device and doing a clean install.

My laptop started life on Mac OS X 10.6 and is now on 10.9, costing me about £50 in total for both paid upgrades with no loss of apps or settings each time, and no weird bugs.
 
darael said:
I won't be installing Windows 8/8.x for as long as I can avoid the need to do so. I have no desire to use that steaming pile of cess.

These Windows releases are becoming far too frequent. They are treating it like something you just reinstall and upgrade on a daily basis. The simple fact is, most people and businesses like a stable OS they can rely on and not have to upgrade it every couple of seconds.
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Is this apparent hatred actually atrributable to anything in the OS or just some bad press it got when released?

I was no huge fan of it to start with, was an early adopter to but 8 is actually a very good OS and I prefer it to 7 these days. 8.1 was an incremental improvement too in many ways.
 
Caged said:
Microsoft really need to look at every other piece of software and how it handles updating. An OS update shouldn't need you to reinstall anything, and it definitely shouldn't require you to mess around changing boot device and doing a clean install.

My laptop started life on Mac OS X 10.6 and is now on 10.9, costing me about £50 in total for both paid upgrades with no loss of apps or settings each time, and no weird bugs.
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There are vastly more publishers for applications for Windows than Mac OS, whilst that's no excuse it's generally legacy support for older apps which actually causes the problem or publishers themselves not updating applications to support Windows 7, 8 etc.

I remember before Mac OS X, it was not as clean and simple as you'd think to upgrade a Mac, but I agree they've nailed it but mostly by having an insane amount of control over the OS/Hardware. I'd rather Microsoft didn't go down that route.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I won't touch Win 8. I have win 3.11 working fine...

:D

And yes, I did finally upgrade to Win 8.1 recently although I was perfectly happy on 7.
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Apparently the average user agrees with your jest - over christmas they (wasn't involved with it myself) tested upgrading some of the terminals in one department at work from Windows XP embedded to Windows 8 machines and left some on XP with around 60 christmas temps from school leaving age to retirement age using them and after the first 2 weeks the Windows 8 machines dropped to <20% (heard 12% but I don't know the exact figures for sure) useage with most people going to the XP machines when given a choice.

So they've left all the systems on XP embedded for now company wide.
 
Halfmad said:
There are vastly more publishers for applications for Windows than Mac OS, whilst that's no excuse it's generally legacy support for older apps which actually causes the problem or publishers themselves not updating applications to support Windows 7, 8 etc.

I remember before Mac OS X, it was not as clean and simple as you'd think to upgrade a Mac, but I agree they've nailed it but mostly by having an insane amount of control over the OS/Hardware. I'd rather Microsoft didn't go down that route.
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How do you explain the issues they've had with Surface firmware ;)
 
Granted it didn't sell well but it was a very good way of testing out the theory that Microsoft could handle software upgrades better when they also controlled the hardware it ran on.
 
Hopefully they add the option to disable the modern interface or as i call it the blocks from hell, otherwise im sticking with windows 7 and with amd bringing out mantle to replace directx there may not be any reason to ever upgrade. Well not for a while.
 
Caged said:
Granted it didn't sell well but it was a very good way of testing out the theory that Microsoft could handle software upgrades better when they also controlled the hardware it ran on.
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Not really, Apple didn't exactly handle all of their hardware flawlessly either so I'm not sure where you're coming from here. Manufacturers/publishers make mistakes, all of them.
 
anything I don't mind said:
Hopefully they add the option to disable the modern interface or as i call it the blocks from hell, otherwise im sticking with windows 7 and with amd bringing out mantle to replace directx there may not be any reason to ever upgrade. Well not for a while.
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Does not matter what they do,you'll always get people moaning about something,same will happen with Win9,10,11 etc..

Frankly I can't remember the last OS where some people did not moan about something with Windows and yes I remember the moaning about XP,Win7 etc...


Regardless I find it easy to adapt and move on,I'm ready for Win9,10 etc...
 
Halfmad said:
Not really, Apple didn't exactly handle all of their hardware flawlessly either so I'm not sure where you're coming from here. Manufacturers/publishers make mistakes, all of them.
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They're doing something right though because when a new OS is released people upgrade to it, which encourages developers to use the new features.

I think a part of this is the price (£30/£20 until it was free recently) but also because the upgrades work, they don't dump everything in a folder and start you off with a clean slate. If Microsoft can get the upgrade experience right then people might start using it.
 
Caged said:
Microsoft really need to look at every other piece of software and how it handles updating. An OS update shouldn't need you to reinstall anything, and it definitely shouldn't require you to mess around changing boot device and doing a clean install.
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Have you upgraded Windows recently? I went from Vista to 7 and from 7 to 8 and it was just as painless as OSX. No clean install and programs left in place.
 
Yeah I did. 7 Pro to 8 Pro wouldn't carry my user profile across, 8 Pro to 8.1 Pro didn't carry over any installed programs.

This wasn't pre-release or Beta versions of anything either.
 
I'm still on Windows 7. I pre-ordered it for £44.99:D I always kept the newest version of Windows and never saw the problem with Vista myself although I already had a dual-core CPU and 2GB RAM when I first installed it. Windows 8 just hasn't interested me for some reason. Maybe it's the tiles but I'm a keen Ipad user. Maybe Windows 7 is just good enough. Not sure really.
 
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