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.
This is THE nuclear strength problem:
“It’s already being reported that Windows 9 will require a login account on THE STORE in order to activate its license.”
I recently bought a new (no touch screen) laptop with win-8 pre-installed. Took about 20 hours to set up correctly to use the mouse and mimic win-7 as closely as possible.
In the middle of that, I don’t know exactly when I pressed the wrong button, but when I re-booted I WAS LOCKED OUT OF MY MACHINE! It replaced my local user with an old Microsoft Account ID that I hadn’t used for years. After recovering from my virtual heart attack, I did eventually remember the old password and reinstalled me as a local user.
I then cancelled the MS Account and discovered that you cannot use the STORE (or any cloud features), even to download free apps, without your MS Account.
If Win 9 requires a cloud based (hackable) MS Account to use your PC, my suggest is run away as fast as possible. This is nuclear strength thuggery.