I am very pleased with Windows 7. Great OS IMO.
However I have no interest in Win 8 at this time, because it’s design does not suit my uses or tastes.
However I don’t want to see Microsoft fail, I use their products, so if in the future they modify 8 so that it is a product that suits my uses and tastes, then I will certainly consider buying it.
Mainly, it has to be -the same- as what I’m used to. I don’t give a damn about change, I like what I like, and if you want my dough, you will have to give me what I like and not what you like.
That’s how it is, Microsoft.
RE: I don’t want to see Microsoft fail
Merciful heavens — FAIL? NO, no no.
I have staked all of my Software Engineering and Programming career on their Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Database, Servers and Development Environment and am getting too old to start anew if they were to fail...
Yep. I’ve got one each now of Windows 7 and Windows 8. Anything Windows 8-ish about Windows 8 is useless slop you want to work around (except some of the touch screen is okay), and my all-in-one printer doesn’t have a drive for Windows 8.
Windows 7 is quite good, however.