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
#2Blogspam, a lot more content in the original: http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/threshold-be-called-window...
Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8
#3Sigh. More new stuff to learn when I need to help people with their Windows boxes.
How long can these guys go on releasing new operating systems? And how long will people keep buying them?
Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8
#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)
Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8
#5> "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)
As opposed to Windows 2015.
Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8
#6So 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 there, and businesses don't want rapid change. They will continue to buy Windows in huge numbers as long as they can rely upon it. It's too expensive to switch to anything else. If MS wants to keep turning over the apple cart to try and stay in the consumer market, they're going to upset their true core audience (IMHO).
[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StarTrekMovieCurs...
Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8
#7I hope with this release they resolve some edition confusions between nonsensical words, like Premium, Professional, Ultimate, etc.
Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8
#8Sigh. More new stuff to learn when I need to help people with their Windows boxes. How long can these guys go on releasing new operating systems? And how long will people keep buying them?
The constant churn is frustrating. Since Vista almost every release has had vast sweeping UI changes, and it just feels so pointless.
To me, the perfect example is the MS office icons - in 7, MS dropped the text-labels off the taskbar entries. This would make sense if they had any kind of consistency, but MS office has had a complete makeover with every release, not even sporting a consistent color-scheme.
Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8
#9> "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?
Re: Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8
#10Sigh. More new stuff to learn when I need to help people with their Windows boxes. How long can these guys go on releasing new operating systems? And how long will people keep buying them?
As long as OEMs pre-install Windows, and ISVs make binaries for Windows, people will "buy"* and use Windows. But times are changing. Consumers don't upgrade PCs as often as they used to, or they switch most home use to tablets. And most software used by consumers these days are web applications.
Anecdote: I'm a software engineer who develops using Windows. But at home I rarely turn on a computer. I do most everything from my iPad. Though to be fair I often do most of my digital errands from work on my PC.
* Most consumers never directly pay for a Windows, or any OS really. They get whatever the hardware vendor installs.