Confirmed: Windows Blue Will Be Free, to Be Called 8.1

If I remember correctly don't Apple only charge about £25 for each 'upgrade' anyway, which could also be used as a new install if necessary?

Microsoft users might just be willing to accept this sort of price level, rather than the £75 or so they are paying now.
 
ubersonic said:
SP1-SP2 is roughly equal to Lion-Mountain lion or Leopard-Snow leopard, so instead of having like OS/SP1/SP2 it looks like Microsoft are going back to the 3.0/3.1/3.11 method as Apple are their only real competitor and its working fine for them.
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OSX isn't a serious competitor to Windows, that segment of Apple has been doing nothing but stagnating for the past decade or so.
 
I don't mind the new start menu but the metro apps are a load of tosh on a desktop. Who wants full screen apps with nasty hidden controls all over the place?

Thankfully you can uninstall the metro apps and I haven't had to use a metro screen in ages.
 
I might just keep W7 forever :D I vept with XP until 7 came out, after trying Vista for a short while. Linux might well be the future :p
 
Totality said:
I don't mind the new start menu but the metro apps are a load of tosh on a desktop. Who wants full screen apps with nasty hidden controls all over the place?

Thankfully you can uninstall the metro apps and I haven't had to use a metro screen in ages.
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Consumption apps are far far far superior than the desktop experience. Compare adudible, Netflix or any other consumption app with desktop equivelent and the desktop stuff looks like it was designed 30years ago. That's why you want metro, it is brilliant and what's better desktop is like it always has been.
 
If you want to do one thing at a time then metro apps may be nice but I like multiple windows open, I like to move stuff around and spread things out over multiple monitors, the metro app sytem is very clumsy and backwards in that regard.
 
marc2003 said:
i generally ignore all the crap you post but this one can't be ignored. it does make you look like a troll of the highest order.
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No it doesn't at all.
Go download the audible desktop version and see what it's like.
Media consumption is far better in a modern UI and the desktop equivalents lag so far behind.

Or netflix website vs netflix app, or 99% of of other media consumption, apps win.


Minstadave said:
If you want to do one thing at a time then metro apps may be nice but I like multiple windows open, I like to move stuff around and spread things out over multiple monitors, the metro app sytem is very clumsy and backwards in that regard.
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And this is why there is both, it's not one or the other, you can use both, depending what task you are doing.
 
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i will confess to not having experience of either the metro or desktop app. i also understand that people like to exaggerate to make a point. but 30 years.... really?
 
marc2003 said:
i will confess to not having experience of either the metro or desktop app. i also understand that people like to exaggerate to make a point. but 30 years.... really?
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Exaggeration of course, but it looks like something made for early XP.
Simple fact is metro is brilliant for media consumption, design of apps is so much better. Pretty much any media consumption the app experience will win. There's always a few exceptions, but the vast majority that is true with. metro will only get better. Desktop is stagnant and there's no real improvments to make. The good thing is, if I am doing media consumption I can use metro and get the best User experience, if I want to fire up open office, I can and instantly be in desktop and again get the best user experience.
 
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theheyes said:
Apple drop support for their OSs very quickly, so I hope Microsoft don't adopt a similar policy.
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2 years. The current OS gets features, bug fixes and security updates while the previous just receives security updates.
 
The metro Spotify and VLC player are out of this world.
Oh no.

I like Media Monkey on my tablet, because there's not many other FLAC compatible players, but I on a desktop I'd much rather and do use Foobar.
 
This might make me want to upgrade due to a few quirks in Windows 7 (chief one being that Win7 forgets folder views after a while as the mru sections fill up in the registry, same on Vista).

Only if it boots right into the desktop and I don't have to see the Metro/Tile interface and lockscreen at all and only if the start menu makes a full return. Third party start menus are all well and good but I want it out of the box.
 
V F said:
2 years. The current OS gets features, bug fixes and security updates while the previous just receives security updates.
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Exactly, it's super short so if you're a Mac user you're almost on a subscription model anyway unless you want an obsolete system. The security updates are arbitrary and incomplete for older versions.
 
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