Windows 10 - On the Way: Right. No Windows 9. Just Windows 10. You have to wonder why a company that began by making an operating system still can't get it right. Win8 was apparently...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Right. No Windows 9. Just Windows 10. You have to wonder why a company that began by making an operating system still can't get it right. Win8 was apparently so bad that they are ready to skip Win9 and go directly to version 10. I wonder what problems that will have - and how much it will cost to upgrade.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/30/windows-10-is-microsofts-big-fat-apology-for-windows-8/

Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

A Fantasy surmise: Windows 9 was a follow-on to the mess they'd started in 8. Microsoft fired every one of those young developers, then went out and rehired the guys they'd laid off from Windows XP/Windows 7, and brought them back. These "old" guys didn't want to waste anytime dismantling 9 so they started a new project of their own, and don't have to worry about lawsuits from the disgruntled 8/9 guys for using "any" of their code.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Bob Yankle wrote:

A Fantasy surmise: Windows 9 was a follow-on to the mess they'd started in 8. Microsoft fired every one of those young developers, then went out and rehired the guys they'd laid off from Windows XP/Windows 7, and brought them back. These "old" guys didn't want to waste anytime dismantling 9 so they started a new project of their own, and don't have to worry about lawsuits from the disgruntled 8/9 guys for using "any" of their code.

Interesting. Let's see how this develops.

handgunner Loc: Windsor Locks, Connecticut

I wish they quit while they were ahead with Windows 7. There is no place or need for a touch screen on a PC. After a couple of days your screen will look like you wiped it down with a pork chop. I wonder if Windows 10 will come with a fried chicken leg for a stylus?

Windows 7 Forever ...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

handgunner wrote:

I wish they quit while they were ahead with Windows 7. There is no place or need for a touch screen on a PC. After a couple of days your screen will look like you wiped it down with a pork chop. I wonder if Windows 10 will come with a fried chicken leg for a stylus?

Windows 7 Forever ...

And then the Touch will stop working.

DaveMM Loc: Port Elizabeth, South Africa

jerryc41 wrote:

Right. No Windows 9. Just Windows 10. ... Win8 was apparently so bad that they are ready to skip Win9 and go directly to version 10.

I hope not. Every even version of Windows has been a dog (ME aka 2000, Vista aka 6 and Win 8 in recent history) and the odd ones between have been the good ones (97, XP aka 5, Win 7). If they miss 9, then 10 MUST be a dog!!!! :mrgreen:

handgunner Loc: Windsor Locks, Connecticut

DaveMM wrote:

I hope not. Every even version of Windows has been a dog (ME aka 2000, Vista aka 6 and Win 8 in recent history) and the odd ones between have been the good ones (97, XP aka 5, Win 7). If they miss 9, then 10 MUST be a dog!!!! :mrgreen:

http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/30/windows-10-is-microsofts-big-fat-apology-for-windows-8/

IMHO It's going to be a dog. Is this the best spokesperson they can come up with in the video? The kid needs a haircut and should stop plucking his eyebrows.

Oknoder Loc: Western North Dakota

I can't complain too much at least we are not still having to execute everything in DOS, let alone MSDOS, and Windows ME was by far the worst release I have ever seen. It was only released for something like 6 months, and yet I have fixed over a thousand machines that had that crap installed on it. I would like something like a x64 version of Win98, nice slim and efficient.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

From the blurb I saw, seems as if they are doing away with the touch screen entirely. Just wish they would restore the backward compatibility. Yea, 7's virtual computer facility is but that denies everything not loaded into it.

TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

I miss my Amiga. :cry:

Wellhiem Loc: Sunny England.

As a general rule of thumb, I find that every other version of Windows works. The original Windows worked, Windows V2 was crap, Windows V3 worked, Windows 95 was crap, Windows 98 worked, Windows 2,000 was crap, Windows XP worked, Windows Vista was crap, Windows 7 which I'm using now, worked, I have Windows 8 on a lap top and it's crap. I think it's about time Microsoft sorted out their product before they start to sell it. Skiping from Windows 8 to Windows 10, could give you the idea that they know this.

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

Maybe they'll call it Windows X might as well. .. its what they are chasing. ;)

bookman Loc: Southeast Michigan

Dontcha know, we're all just MS OS beta testers. They let the consumer figure out what they did wrong or at least what they didn't do right, then they try to take care of it in the next major release. :thumbdown:

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

bookman wrote:

...then they try to take care of it in the next major release. :thumbdown:

But they don't quite get it right.

diensthunds

Bob Yankle wrote:

A Fantasy surmise: Windows 9 was a follow-on to the mess they'd started in 8. Microsoft fired every one of those young developers, then went out and rehired the guys they'd laid off from Windows XP/Windows 7, and brought them back. These "old" guys didn't want to waste anytime dismantling 9 so they started a new project of their own, and don't have to worry about lawsuits from the disgruntled 8/9 guys for using "any" of their code.

Except you forget about the NDA that all the developers have to sign before they work with redmond. The company owns all the patent rights to all the code written there, and when that's not enough for them they try to say that developers of other operating systems stole code from them.