Windows 9?
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shakenbake
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Marketing ploy to have skipped Windows 9. Supposedly, Windows 10 is that revolutionary, according to Micro$oft.
I'm still using XP on one computer, Windows 7 on another computer and Linux on my laptop. I'll wait and see before spending money on Windows 10.
My office computer is Windows 8, I have a laptop that I carry around that is Windows 7. I have a Vista machine at home that never gave me one bit of trouble. My theory is that it was the highest capacity computer at the time of purchase and did not lack power, where as Vista did not work as with lower power computers. I do not find an amazing difference among the three systems I have now. I doubt that Windows 10 will have anything that much different.
The only suggestion I have for people is that if you do not need to sync up your computer with your phone then buy your computer just as Windows 10 arrives and you will get lower price on your computer. When Windows 8 arrived, I was able to help several people by suggesting they buy the Windows 7 - i3 chipped computers at $280. The electronic stores wanted to move them out before the new windows 8 computers arrived.
The only suggestion I have for people is that if you do not need to sync up your computer with your phone then buy your computer just as Windows 10 arrives and you will get lower price on your computer. When Windows 8 arrived, I was able to help several people by suggesting they buy the Windows 7 - i3 chipped computers at $280. The electronic stores wanted to move them out before the new windows 8 computers arrived.
I actually used a P3 with Windows 2000 until about a couple years ago. It was unable to play any video higher than 640x480 so it became technologically obsolete.
Microsoft wants to get people to move up from older versions of Windows. Think of all the millions of PC's out there that are vulnerable to threats still running Windows XP and earlier.
shakenbake
Senior Turgid Member
I hate Windows 8.1, and am still on 7, as well. It seems that many 'improvements' result in the removal of worthwhile features from previous versions.
When I was using my P3 with Windows 2000, I never connected it to the Internet. My XP is occasionally connected to the Internet and I got 3 (from memory) "updates" since April 2014. Is Microsoft still providing updates for XP? If yes, is it because I have the professional and not the home version?
All those stable-as-all-hell computers with functional user interfaces that make sense and are easy to use, and can actually be used to do shit even when they are not online. I'm quite sure the thought keeps Microsoft's legion of developers waking up in cold sweats at night! Something must be done!
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. You are upset about these minor changes as a "customer", or what I like to call, a "human being that uses their product". But as far as Microsoft is concerned, the inconsequential and minor change of ENTIRELY REWRITING THE WAY YOU LOOK AT AND USE YOUR FUCKING COMPUTER is worth it because it enables the earth shattering improvements ofconstantly trying to hook you up with quicker and easier ways to buy shit, making it harder to bypass their attempts to sell you shit, sending your data to apps stores all the time, and trying real, real hard to look even more like an Apple interface. Who cares if you have to relearn something as simple as opening a browser or even using your desktop. Those are merely decades-long habits that can be discarded. There's commerce to be had, motherfuckers!
Fuck Win 8-point-anything. Fuck it right in the fucking face.
The key merit of windows 10 is that it is the first MS OS that is unified, this means that you can run the same apps/games on your laptop/desktop/phone/xbox, though legacy apps/games will probably still only work on laptops/desktops. If MS is going to upgrade win 7 to win 10 for free and also upgrade win8 to win10 for free, then it seems very odd that you can not get a free upgrade from win7 to win8 while you wait for win10. In anycase a free upgrade is a free upgrade, I have several win 7 licenses ready for a win10 upgrade.
One of the main reasons for offering the upgrade is so that the older OS support can be dropped more quickly. Not much point for Microsoft to offer an upgrade to something they want to become a legacy system sooner rather than later.
...that, and they're assholes.
Microsoft isn't making updates for XP anymore. If you never contect your pc to the internet then it's not a problem.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/end-support-help
