Your OneDrive storage will be as easy to access as the “C: drive,” so all of your documents, personal files, photos, etc. will go right to the cloud without having to think about it. looks like Win-7 is here to stay...
Twenty years from now will be a generation that never even heard of Microsoft. Lucky them.
Give me an update and support for XP and I’ll pay for it like it’s a new program and immediately “upgrade” out of 8.1.
I normally use Mac OS X, however I have VM running Win 7 for the time I need it. I have tried Win 8 and can’t stand it
As a tablet OS Win 8 would have worked, as a desktop/laptop OS it was bound to fail.
Windows Vista was hilarious. I remember the first person I know who got one. I was the big computer savvy guy who was going to show them how to use it. It literally took about 15 minutes to boot up. Then it just got stuck all over the place. People were taking them back. What a train wreck.
But the beauty of Microsoft is that the foundation was built so well by such a ruthless competitor that none of that mattered. It was new technology that everyone wanted and the way it broke was exactly the way it was supposed to work.
If you Argued against microsoft products it was like telling everyone that you were stupid and you just didn’t know how to use it.
Brilliant.
Win 8 was the final straw for me (Windows user since 2.11)...been a happy full-time OSX user for little over a year now. I keep a Windows 7 box around for a few non-OSX games I have.
Exactly. Win 8 is horrible and cost me many work hours.
Recognition that the Windows team at Microsoft is composed of autistic idiot savants who have no connection the normal human race. It is like General Motors saying "We're sorry the car is impossible to drive, but look at the neat torque curve on this scope here."
Your OneDrive storage will be as easy to access as the “C: drive,” so all of your documents, personal files, photos, etc. will go right to the cloud without having to think about it. looks like Win-7 is here to stay...
You'd think that Microshaft would have heard the very clear message after Windows VISTA!
So, I haven't had a chance to run Win 8, will Win9 be free to people who bought a Win8 machine?
Will you stop with the Linus crap. The overwhelming majority of computer users lack basic skills to use a Linus operating system.
Small consolation when a new owner can't even figure out how to start the stupid thing; all the rest doesn't matter.
Old apps will run on Win 9 huh?
Really?
OK... where's the nearest computer geek school?
I don’t want that much out of life, I just want to be able to play PS2 games on a PS3 . . . really, is that axing too much?
I have no interest whatsoever in using a cloud to store personal documents and data.
Buying a computer with Windows 7 this week, and its an expensive one, so Windows 9 will probably be the first time I pay to just upgrade Windows.
The reason I am optimistic about 9 is that there is a pattern.
2000 - crap
XP - good
Vista - crap
7 - good
8 - crap
9 - ...
I hope they have learned their lesson from the steaming pile that 8 was. Ugh. If I wanted a damn tablet, I’ll buy a tablet. Stop trying to turn my laptop into a tablet! I don’t want to swipe window panes, I just want a functioning Start menu damn it!
No wonder MS is laying off 18,000 employees.
Looks like 9 is starting to smell *Big Time* already.
Didn’t hurt OS X either.
I think the Start Button was around before Windows 95 wasn’t it?
It’s already being reported that Windows 9 will require a login account on THE STORE in order to activate its license.
Having to use THE STORE for any purpose whatsoever is all the reason I need to keep myself and all of my business and consumer clients on W7 indefinitely. No doubt the enterprise and SMB will stay away from W9 in droves for the same reason if they’re forced to use THE STORE for any purpose whatsoever.
You’d think Microsoft would have learned many lessons from Windows 8, but my gut says no, that Microsoft will commit an equal number of serious blunders with W9 as they did with W8. If so, W7 may be the last Windows OS that has any clout anywhere, and Microsoft’s OS monopoly will disintegrate.
Once the enterprise, SMB, and savvy consumer customers convert to Windows 7, they’re gonna sit tight until their hardware fries. Windows 8 has taught us that Microsoft no longer cares what we think, and no longer cares to make products that are of benefit to anyone except themselves.
We’re all going to be looking at Windows 9 with an incredibly jaded eye, and quite frankly I suspect that Microsoft has yet to learn their lesson with Windows 8, and will be deliberately making a whole new set of really bad decisions resulting in a number of serious blunders equal to what they did with the Windows 8 ecosystem.
Microsoft is no longer interested in making our lives simpler or even making products that benefit our lives and our businesses. The sole focus of that corporation is to now make products that benefit only Microsoft.
Microsoft is in the process of shifting their OS from a PC OS to nothing more than a set of deeply integrated clients that exclusively marry one’s hardware to a set of Microsoft servers. Microsoft’s vision of the future is not a vision of the Personal Computer anymore, but a vision of client terminals tightly and solely tied to Microsoft servers of various sorts. Any vestigial local functionality will be merely window dressing to make people think they are still buying hardware and software that make up a personal computer.
Windows 9 will simply be the next step in the not-a-personal-computer-any-longer evolution started by the execrable Windows 8.x. Rather than being the Phoenix rising from the smoking pile of Windows 8 ashes, Windows 9
is likely just going to be another pile of ashes heaped upon the old Windows 8 ones.
PC’s do not have “apps” they have programs.