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Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

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Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

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Post by Pxtl »

jhardcastle wrote: post #6

So are we now seeing the confirmation of the anti-Star Trek Curse[1]? Windows 9 will be OK, 10 will be terrible, 11 will be OK, and so on... Microsoft's new leadership needs to start thinking about resigning itself to being the stable operating system choice. Nothing fancy, nothing sexy, no major "rebirth" to keep up with the Jonses ever other version. They are an enterprise operating system for 95% of businesses out…

Idunno, the idea of unifying a tablet/phone UI seems to be a good idea with the massive shift to mobile devices. MS stands the risk of being completely left behind.

I think the Metro UI could've worked if they'd bolted a taskbar/start-menu onto it, as a concession to the fact that notebooks/desktops aren't tablets and have enough screen-real-estate for such things and aren't really a good fit for "hot corners".

Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

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Post by shawabawa3 »

m_st wrote: post #9
shawabawa3 wrote: post #4

> "To distance itself from the Windows 8 debacle, Microsoft is currently planning to drop the Windows 8 name and brand this next release as Windows 9." I... I don't... As opposed to what? Windows 8 2? Or Windows 8 SP2 I suppose. Still, one of the most ridiculous sentences I've read in a while (edit: didn't realise they released 8.1, thought it was SP1. I guess I partially retract how stupid I think the sentence is)

Well they could have called it Windows 8.2, no?

Technically they could have, but do they have any history of doing that? (edit: didn't realise they released 8.1, thought it was SP1. I guess I partially retract how stupid I think the sentence is)

The sentence would have made a bit of sense if they had gone back to vista style naming, and called it windows or something. But the last 2 releases have been called 7 and 8, is 9 really distancing itself from 8?

Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

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Post by nobodyshere »

johnatwork wrote: post #7

I hope with this release they resolve some edition confusions between nonsensical words, like Premium, Professional, Ultimate, etc.

I believe they should get rid of different versions and just make one. That'd also be great when ordering custom laptops where some features somehow depend on which version of windows you pick (i.e. 'Fresh start' on Sony).

Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

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Post by drcongo »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #4

> "To distance itself from the Windows 8 debacle, Microsoft is currently planning to drop the Windows 8 name and brand this next release as Windows 9." I... I don't... As opposed to what? Windows 8 2? Or Windows 8 SP2 I suppose. Still, one of the most ridiculous sentences I've read in a while (edit: didn't realise they released 8.1, thought it was SP1. I guess I partially retract how stupid I think the sentence is)

Windows 8.2 Professional™ Media™ Home™ Premium™ Edition™ Enterprise™ Ultimate™

Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

#17

Post by Systemic33 »

jhardcastle wrote: post #6

So are we now seeing the confirmation of the anti-Star Trek Curse[1]? Windows 9 will be OK, 10 will be terrible, 11 will be OK, and so on... Microsoft's new leadership needs to start thinking about resigning itself to being the stable operating system choice. Nothing fancy, nothing sexy, no major "rebirth" to keep up with the Jonses ever other version. They are an enterprise operating system for 95% of businesses out…

I can see your points, but this is EXACTLY how Nokia and RIM went down the drain. They both thought that as long as we just churn out new iterations of the same thing, it'll keep people on. Look how that went...

Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

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Post by venomsnake »

Pxtl wrote: post #11
jhardcastle wrote: post #6

So are we now seeing the confirmation of the anti-Star Trek Curse[1]? Windows 9 will be OK, 10 will be terrible, 11 will be OK, and so on... Microsoft's new leadership needs to start thinking about resigning itself to being the stable operating system choice. Nothing fancy, nothing sexy, no major "rebirth" to keep up with the Jonses ever other version. They are an enterprise operating system for 95% of businesses out…

Idunno, the idea of unifying a tablet/phone UI seems to be a good idea with the massive shift to mobile devices. MS stands the risk of being completely left behind. I think the Metro UI could've worked if they'd bolted a taskbar/start-menu onto it, as a concession to the fact that notebooks/desktops aren't tablets and have enough screen-real-estate for such things and aren't really a good fit for "hot corners".

Metro would have worked if MS hadn't tried to pull a Jobs with the windows store. And left the old start menu of course.

Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

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Post by sliverstorm »

jhardcastle wrote: post #6

So are we now seeing the confirmation of the anti-Star Trek Curse[1]? Windows 9 will be OK, 10 will be terrible, 11 will be OK, and so on... Microsoft's new leadership needs to start thinking about resigning itself to being the stable operating system choice. Nothing fancy, nothing sexy, no major "rebirth" to keep up with the Jonses ever other version. They are an enterprise operating system for 95% of businesses out…

Businesses don't want rapid change, which is why taking risks every-other release is fine- businesses aren't going to upgrade the OS every four years anyway.

Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8

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Post by daigoba66 »

johnatwork wrote: post #7

I hope with this release they resolve some edition confusions between nonsensical words, like Premium, Professional, Ultimate, etc.

Despite some of the earlier marketing, describing how much simpler the editions became, it's still a cluster-mess.

For example read about problems upgrading to 8.1 for various editions: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/why-can-t-find-.... Upgrading to a "service pack" in previous versions of Windows never seemed this complicated.

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