Could Windows 9 Come This Year?

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As someone who works in an industry (television/film/cinema/etc.) that runs almost entirely on Macs, I'd have to agree with everything you said. I use my Macs for everything work-related, and used it for everything school-related back in college.
Only reason why I have a Windows machine is for games, and because I have an unhealthy obsession building computers--ensuring my wallet stays empty for as long as I live.

Anyway, I hope they hold off on Windows 9 and just do a Windows 8.2. But considering everyone continued to ignore Windows Vista after it became a half-way decent operating system post-SP1.... they'll probably have to release a major version to get everyone's attention back.
 
I like MS because they keep me employed or supporting their under engineered, poorly designed infrastructure. It's also nice that developer take short-cut after short-cut and watching companies drop million dollar contracts with MS because of the direction they have gone. I did the Apple thing and boy oh boy will I never do that again. You think MS is bad at trying to get you to integrate with their parent company, that is NOTHING compared to Apple. They fooled me once....that's all their are getting.What do I use now? Linux (Debian because it's stable as hell, even more so than Windows). Yeah yeah I already know "nobody makes apps for it" and for now, that is true, but I think it's changing. Our company only buys apps that support Linux and Windows (which usually means Apple too). Linux has the right idea...keep the software to maintain it's own dependencies, let security be as simple as you can make it and most of all, MAKE IT BE CONSISTENT, something MS just keeps screwing up. What was once their flag ship (Group Policy / Active Directory) has turned into "better hope it works, cause half the time it doesn't for no reason. Their Exchange mail server is some OVERLY complicated and poorly designed. Their development package (VStudio) has become a hodge podge of languages MS is trying to push to prevent the need to write a great compiler into ASM / Machine Code. Instead they want you to be reliant on MS's higher level (stupid). But luckily (sarcasm) Microsoft has come out (within 2 years) and said they are a CONSUMER products company. That means NOT BUSINESS. They have screwed the pooch on their most loyal customer base (the one that keeps them afloat). Now they have complicated licensing, complicated (and not for the better) network infrastructures and they are still dependent on their work invention yet...the Windows Registry. This isn't 2000 anymore. Time for it all to go away and it's happening slowly, the only people that don't want to see it are the un-informed or people so dependent on MS holding their hand (.net IDE people!...with the mind set of "lets hit . + spacebar and guess what object I need)...the future is changing and MS was too slow to see it. Chrome OS (which i loathe) is out there. Firefox OS is out there. Linux Debian (Ubuntu is based off Debian). Linux RHEL (red hat) and other MAJOR (who cares about the other 32,000 Linux spin offs) releases all with open source developers who honestly care about consistency more than "patching to make it work here and now" that is the MS mindset.
 
Its all about MS forcing a touch based interface onto desktop users in order to sell tablets to those same users that are thinking about buying tablets because they're already familiar with the OS that makes a Speak N Say look cutting edge.
*thumbs up*

Really though, The faster MS can get away from Windows 8 the better, 8.1 should have been the step between 7 and 8, but so many people are afraid to try it because 8 anything is carrying a stigma with it.
Same with Vista, it was stable and usable towards the end, but no one wanted to make the jump after stigma caused by a launch with a slew of problems, mostly caused by the underpowered hardware it came on.
And Win8 isn't bad on a touch screen, it actually runs nice and is a pretty good tablet OS, but there's the problem, it was a tablet OS forced onto desktop and laptop users without the hardware to take full advantage of it.
But I HATE it as a desktop/ laptop OS with a passion. I was ready to throw my new laptop out the window with 8 after 3 hours of using it, so off went 8, on went Ubuntu, and I've been happy with it since.
 
MS cannot get rid of tiles and some aspects of the Metro design. That would be a huge mistake. While many of us will continue to use keyboards and mice, the growing majority of people will be using touch, voice, gesture, and other inputs as the primary interface for their machines. Metro is a much better (granted immature 1st gen) design and interface for these new types of input and feedback. Abandoning it would be the death of MS' OS division because it cannot live on professional sales alone. They are far more ahead of the curve on this than people give them credit for.Still, there are compromises that could, and should be made. In a primarily desktop environment the Start Menu should come back in form factor, but with a WP tall-bar style interface with live tiles instead of the traditional useless win95-7 list-style start menu. Also, in a desktop environment metro apps should launch windowed instead of full screen, and they should not be so quick to hibernate like a phone app so that they can actually be useful when doing work and multitasking.But the biggest single thing that I would like to see MS change, is the ability to put traditional desktop applications in the store! While I would not be a huge fan of this personally, it would be great for all of my computer illiterate friends who I tell to go get such-and-such a program, and instead they manage to download a bunch of viruses, tool-bars, and bloatware. Having a centralized 'safe' place for people to get applications that are not bundled with a bunch of crap would be a huge help to many people who are now sadly accustomed to closed garden app stores.
 


They can`t do what Apple does, MS doesn`t sell their own PC at overprice to make up for the cheap OS. Though i would love to see at least a 50$ Win release. This way less and less people will pirate their OS.

As for windows looks, i personally like thew new Start menu (hate the metro tablet like apps ) but they should make you choose how your OS should look, with the old start menu or the new style, this way you please all your customers.

Win 8 and 8.1 are pretty fast under the hood, i know many gamers for instance that hated 8 and were using Win7, but when they tried 8 or 8.1 they saw the improvements in their gaming rigs and liked it.
 
Release of an operating system also depends upon how well the beta testing will go. Personally I'd like to see Windows 9 beta added added to Microsoft connect customers as early as possible so that they can draw feedback into ascertaining whether the O/S is better than Windows 8 or needs further work.
 


Microsoft! Give this person a job!
 
I'll be happy if I can just get clear font rendering back, like in Windows 7. IE11 and Office 2013 are unusable on a desktop. The appalling forced graycsale font anti-aliasing embedded in them even belligerently overrides the operating system's font settings as chosen by the user. How the f... did the developers of IE11 and Office 2013 get away with that? The management and board of Microsoft must be asleep at the wheel.
 
Microsoft HIRE me, I can fix up ALL of your BS in about 10 days. Seriously.
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You know, if they made the front-end look like Windows 7 and from what I understand, some of the backend of Windows 8, I'd be happy. I don't have Windows 8 and I don't even want it. It literally was the first OS I was not excited to upgrade to since getting into the whole Start Menu at Windows 95. Oh, I skipped out on Windows ME, as well. From what I hear, I didn't miss much.Microsoft really needs to also focus on how it can capitalize on Schools, Internet Cafes and Libraries, where it is clearly losing the battle to Apple. What they should do, is what they did with the Windows 8 start screen, except make it actually look aesthetically pleasing. The idea of the Start UI works in some environments, but only if it looks good, one thing Apple has an advantage over.I work at a public library, and a👎 (asian) child came up to me and asked me why we have slow computers and why we can't get faster computers like MACs. Doesn't help that the Windows machines are 10-12 years old and the MACs we do have were purchased last year. What they don't know, is we have iPads that connect to big screens which run on Windows 7 machines. HA! Booyah!
 
just bring back WinXP interface and accessibility and keep 8.1 as it's, I miss the time when I was pinning all my shortcuts to the toolbar, I don't why they removed that option 🙁
 
If Microsoft combines it's Windows Phone with regular x86 Windows I could see it taking a large share of the market.. Android is neat and all, but it is missing the functionality of Windows.
 
Microsoft has lost its focus. Crappy Office products and now a Crappy OS. Windows 7/Office 2010/Server2008r2/Exchange 2010 was Microsoft's high water mark. Its been all down hill from there.
 
excellent. this will be it. this wll show whether microsoft is up to the task. theyre fucking up bigtime, and steam OS is going to become a bigger threat than they suspect if they keep holding direct x to new releases only. im kind of hoping they slip up, ill start dual booting so fast, it wont even be funny.
 
"I miss the time when I was pinning all my shortcuts to the toolbar, I don't why they removed that option"
you can still do that. i do it all the time.

"You know, if they made the front-end look like Windows 7 and from what I understand, some of the backend of Windows 8, I'd be happy. I don't have Windows 8 and I don't even want it."
once you get passed the start screen... that's pretty much exactly how it is. with 8.1, i see the regular old windows 7 like interface 99% of the time. with 8.0, it was like 90% of the time. but i don't hate the start screen at all, it's actually incredibly useful and makes the desktop super clean and organized.

"If Windows 9 gives users the option to operate in a Windows 7-like environment or Windows 8-like environment, then bring it on."
you can already do this... load into the desktop, BAM windows 7-like environment. hit the windows key or start button, BAM windows-8 like environment.

"I do not like 8.1 for the simple reason you always have to sign in to a Microsoft account. "
as already pointed out, you can make a local account. it's very easy to do.

i will never understand people bashing windows 8/8.1 when they readily admit they've barely used it or not used it at all, or have complaints about "problems" with it that are so easily addressed or non existent. seriously, i've had way more problems with windows 7 than i've had with 8. ::shrug::
 
this is just a romer no way ms will bring a new OS this year but if this windows 9 still have metro i'm sure as hell i'm sticking to windows 7
 
is this going to be a free upgrade? if their gonna expect everyone to pay for the upgrade then i dont think that would be a smart move. microsoft has been doing very well in the last 5 years so they dont need to money.
 
"If you want to play Angry Birds and check your f-ing email at Starbucks then buy a Mac..." That is pure crap. I do a ton of work from my Mac. I just do it without involving Microsoft. Open Office, Drop Box, Evernote and Firefox is all I need to conduct most of my daily tasks. And by the way, Windows 8 looks nothing like MacOS, nor does it behave like it.
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I'm guessing you are an independent website developer, graphic designer or a student? No company with any sense utilizes any "alternative" to Office - there is no guarantee of support or that tomorrow it will even continue to function.Macs are cute little machines with limited functionality that certainly serve a purpose. Universities need their kickbacks and casual users need their entirely overpriced tin cans (that show how cool/unique/hip they are). But the vast majority of real work is done in a windows environment.
 


if password protect is having a password on your account, yes. when you set up windows 8.1, click the text that says i dont have a Microsoft account, then click on create local account, and proceed to set up an account just like in windows 7 or 8. my account does not have a password, since it doesnt leave the house, and 8.1 works the same way. I dont know if you can delete a microsoft account off of windows 8.1 after creating a local account, though.
 


why is everyone so stuck up on the interface? when xp came out, the common complaint was "the LUNA theme sucks! just give me the win 98/2000 theme!" and when vista came out, people said "the AERO theme sucks, give me back the LUNA theme!" and when 8 came out, the argument, once again, was "METRO sucks, give me back AERO!"

if you want the xp theme, install classic start, and adjust it to look like xp by turning off all of the graphical effects in the performance menu.

and shortcuts? ive got shortcuts on my toolbar, with windows 8.1 and adding them is as simple as drag and drop. i dont think they removed that..
 
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