[Justa]

What about Win 2000? But you’re right about every-other OS. What they do is upgrade the kernal, platform, code, APIs, etc. in the first release then continue development into the second release as the final version. Ergo, 95 to 98; 2000 to XP; Vista to W7; W8 to ? Just read the kernal versions between releases.

W8 actually has some really good computing features and benefits so we’ll see how they fix it. Right now it just has a horrible and poorly thought out desktop. They were trying to steal-back consumers from tablets to save the workstation. The desktop may be dead however. The computing power in tablets is just getting too strong. Who wouldn’t want to take their entire system with them wherever they go with their backup in the cloud? Irresistable and inevitable IMO.

[JCBreckenridge]

“Who wouldn’t want to take their entire system with them wherever they go with their backup in the cloud?”

This guy? I love my laptop but it functions as a smaller desktop. I would never use a phone with a touchscreen. I love MS.

[ClearCase_guy]

My dream is to have a flat touchscreen, about 2 feet by 3 feet, serving as an I/O device and also the surface of my desk. It has basically no computing power to speak of. I sit down, plug my phone into my desk, and my desk knows my passwords and my access priviledges. My content is in the cloud. I can do everything I want at my desk. When I'm done, I grab my phone and go. When I get home, I can sit at my other desk, plu my phone in, and it's just like I'm in the office: seamless. Or, I can go to the living room where I have a third such screen, this one on my wall. I plug my phone into my "TV" and watch a movie from any provider with whom I have an agreement.

I want a phone in my pocket, and I want furniture. That's it.