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[citation][nom]zorky9[/nom]Maybe it's not really an upgrade but an OS optimized for niche machines - tablets and ultraportables.[/citation]

Yes, because that's what tablets and ultraportables need: an OS that hogs system resources.

MS has had a nightmare of a time slimming down their operating systems. Suddenly aiming for that portable market seems like a hell of a longshot to me.
 
"MS has had a nightmare of a time slimming down their operating systems"

One of the things they've been working on with Win7 and now Win8 is breaking up the OS into it's main components and straitening up their spaghetti code of API calls.

Some of the biggest changes will be how the kernel scales on multi-core CPUs. Probably not a big reason to upgrade until you start getting newer hardware.

Like going to Win7 from a dual core. Not really worth it, but once you start getting to 6 and 8 cores or hyper-thread tech, then Win7 starts to show it's abilities.
 
Have to laugh at people trashing Win8 or labelling the next Me/Vista whilst it's still not even in beta. How about holding off on that until you actually see what it delivers? The full RTM release is probably not for another 18 months.

For the people saying they don't need it.... you don't even know what's in it yet! A lot of people said they didn't need 7 and decided to stick with XP. Believe me, 7 wipes the floor with XP and is a far more polished and secure OS.

However, I would like to see Microsoft offer better discounts for users of Windows 7 is upgrading to 8. The upgrade prices are still usually pretty steep. If they offered 8 for a quarter of the price of a full copy of 7 then it'd be a tempting upgrade. Otherwise, if 7 is still perfectly useable for me to skip a release then I would probably give it a miss.
 
[citation][nom]K2N hater[/nom]+1MS has been playing Apple for a while now. They want you to buy a new PC every year as your not-so-old PC isn't qualified to run their latest, fastest, most stable, most secure and most exciting OS.[/citation]

Unlike apple, Microsoft doesn't sell computers, so this doesn't make any sense at all.
 
Not me, I'm on my last Windows release, Win 7 64. Years from now it will be replaced with a big iMac. STEAM is on Mac now and more and more games are supporting Mac again. MS days are numbered.
 
go microsoft go, why win8?, you should make it win9, or win10, or even better if win20.
 
[citation][nom]_Cubase_[/nom]To all you XP purists: Go suck a 32-bit lemon, and come back when you're ready to join the big leagues.[/citation]
XP 64-bit is a perfectly good OS. Don't know why there is so much 7 hate, it will run on most machines built in the last 10 years or so.
 
[citation][nom]molo9000[/nom]Wonder what the internal version number is going to be.Vista was 6, 7 was 6.1.Is Windows 8 going to be 6.2, 7 or 8 ?[/citation]

NT 6.2 = Windows 8 6+2=8 ;-)
NT 6.3 = Windows 9
NT 7.0 = Windows X
 
for the people saying they don't need it.... you don't even know what's in it yet! A lot of people said they didn't need 7 and decided to stick with XP. Believe me, 7 wipes the floor with XP and is a far more polished and secure OS.
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Ok and for the avg consumor that does basicly stuff like search the internet and watch videos that majority of the time on their pc needs a new OS every time one comes out, why again? You obv aren't around enough typical pc users to understand that your typical pc user just doesn't buy a new OS, because it's more polished or it has some new features to it that the other OS doesn't have. So by your logic everyone should have ditched Windows XP and gone to Windows Vista because Windows Vista more polished and more secure than Windows XP, but that didn't happen. Two reaons your typical pc user was content still with Windows XP and Windows vista had a slew of issues. The typical pc user wants something that's functional, easy to use and doesn't give them problems and Windows XP did and does all of those things still. Yes obv Windows 7 has improved overall over Windows XP and it should have, it took an entire OS generation filled with mistkes from Windows Vista and years 8 years for MS to finally come up with a true succesor to Windows XP, that's how good Windows XP was and still is for your typical pc user.

 
I have no use for Windows 8. Then again, I have no use for 7 either as its just Vista with a different UI and trim support. I think I shall stay with Vista as it works perfectly fine. On the plus side, you will now have choice in UI; You can have traditional with Vista, Applesc with 7, or the ridiculous MS Office bubble with 8.......Woot for choice!
 
I don't mind new Windows every year, as long as Microsoft keeps the older user interface so I can get back to it if I don't like the new one. Maybe they should have customizable UI so we can have the feel of Windows 1.0 if we want to. Even better, let users customize the UI as far as they want to. And also MS can make money by selling UIed themes 🙂
 
[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]They will have to pull XP from my cold dead hands......[/citation]

+1. Until they make a version with an interface that's actually quick intuitive and not a jumbled mess of menus, panels, and sub pages I'll stick with XP. 'Course I'm dual booting in case I need DX11. I lol though at the people that think they're 1337 for using an OS practically spoon-fed designed for 80 year olds "OH MY WORD I NEED A HUGE ******* DIAGRAM TO TELL ME IM CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET!!!".

And Ribbons suck so hard they'd make an army of hookers look like a dust buster.
 
[citation][nom]ReggieRay[/nom]Not me, I'm on my last Windows release, Win 7 64. Years from now it will be replaced with a big iMac. STEAM is on Mac now and more and more games are supporting Mac again. MS days are numbered.[/citation]

Steam is on Mac, with a grand total of about 3 games worth buying. Assassins Creed 2, L4D2 and Civ 5. I've played Half Life 2 on my friend's Mac, the FPS rate is horrendous and it crashes lots, same with L4D2. Gaming on Mac is at a level of maturity on a par with PC gaming in the 90's, they have a long way to go before they can even think about challenging Windows for PC gaming dominance because more or less every game that comes out on Mac will be or already has been out on Windows. So no, MS days are far from numbered because Mac hasn't even gotten out of the rafters in gaming when compared to Windows.
 
[citation][nom]iamtheking123[/nom]+1. Until they make a version with an interface that's actually quick intuitive and not a jumbled mess of menus, panels, and sub pages I'll stick with XP. 'Course I'm dual booting in case I need DX11. I lol though at the people that think they're 1337 for using an OS practically spoon-fed designed for 80 year olds "OH MY WORD I NEED A HUGE ******* DIAGRAM TO TELL ME IM CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET!!!".And Ribbons suck so hard they'd make an army of hookers look like a dust buster.[/citation]

Once per year? Vista is 5 years old, 7 is 2 years old, 8 won't even be announced until later this year, then you still need to wait for it to hit beta, then another year after beta before it goes live.
 
[citation][nom]iamtheking123[/nom]+1. Until they make a version with an interface that's actually quick intuitive and not a jumbled mess of menus, panels, and sub pages I'll stick with XP. 'Course I'm dual booting in case I need DX11. I lol though at the people that think they're 1337 for using an OS practically spoon-fed designed for 80 year olds "OH MY WORD I NEED A HUGE ******* DIAGRAM TO TELL ME IM CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET!!!".And Ribbons suck so hard they'd make an army of hookers look like a dust buster.[/citation]
Agreed. Also paying extra for something that XP does very well. Lately I found out that Windows7 has removed Net Meeting with no way to get it back, and one needs internet connection to communicate via LAN with the replacement software, which is a big "No!" for me, even if I can put it in XP mode I guess.
At work I got XP and 7 side by side, connected with synergy software. I don't like the mouse distance traveled and click count to do the same actions in XP, but I got used to the interface enough not to care about it, still consider it ugly by the way, even customized down to XP and 2k similarity. Keeping it in aereo though, because it's transparent and I see less of it this way 😀
 
Sorry Microsoft but Windows 8 will be a pass me by.
It won't take link Windows 7 and I wouldn't release it anytime soon.

Most companies ( I'm a tech for a Hospital ) aren't done switching to Windows 7 yet or even close. We won't consider this OS until late 2013 or 2014 at the earliest.
 
i agree with chilling out on Win8 as 7 is wonderful. Unless 8 is meant as a complement to windows 7, such as touchscreen PCs and obviously tablets as i'm not so sure i would like the idea of Android or iOS with a mouse, unless of course this fancy input is an overlay option or you can toggle a windows7 look and feel depending on the type of device you use and what you prefer.
 
It's all fine to bring out new operating systems,but why don't microsoft take their time...Really take their time like twice to three times the length of time to bring in their new operating systems...So we all can get our monies worth out of what we have got already...I still like using XP & Vista is still O.K. by me for browsing & even better offline...I have got a retail boxed windows pro 7,but yet to go online with it...I wish they would take 10 years or more before they bring in each new operating system & just keep on bring in new fix's for the old OS's...To tell the truth I do not think microsoft will get it's act together since there is too much money involved to make for them...They make a lot money with each new product that comes out...
 
[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]They will have to pull XP from my cold dead hands......[/citation]
Won't that long then, if you are still using XP you must be close to death from old age by now
 
[citation][nom]_Cubase_[/nom]To all you XP purists: Go suck a 32-bit lemon, and come back when you're ready to join the big leagues.[/citation]
If XP is doing everything they need, why upgrade? Not everyone needs the newest OS unless there is a feature that only the new OS has. Not everyone has a comp that can comfortably run Win 7 and XP is the best choice without spending money for what will end up being no reason.
 
[citation][nom]Wish I Was Wealthy[/nom]It's all fine to bring out new operating systems,but why don't microsoft take their time...Really take their time like twice to three times the length of time to bring in their new operating systems...So we all can get our monies worth out of what we have got already...I still like using XP & Vista is still O.K. by me for browsing & even better offline...I have got a retail boxed windows pro 7,but yet to go online with it...I wish they would take 10 years or more before they bring in each new operating system & just keep on bring in new fix's for the old OS's...To tell the truth I do not think microsoft will get it's act together since there is too much money involved to make for them...They make a lot money with each new product that comes out...[/citation]
If you wait until 10 years has passed then you will have missed quite a bit of technology change. We interact quite a bit differently with our computers now then we did 10 years ago. We didn't have the internet or atleast most didn't. Patching an operating system to keep it up to date does not fix all the problems. Sometimes the issue is at the root of the kernal and you just can't fix it with patches but only with a whole rewrite.
 
Vista was MS latest Windows Millennium...both a disaster! Not sure what Windows 8's official name will be but I am sure they will "borrow" more ideas from MAC OS-X...lol.
 
[citation][nom]t3ck[/nom]Well that's cool. I just got used to Windows 7 lol. I really hope Windows 8 isn't much different.http://t3ck.com/windows-8-september-debut-rumor/[/citation]

Well Windows OS in general does not change all the much. Majority of commands that run in the background have been the same since Windows 3.1 and typically aside from security only the GUI is changed to give the appearance on a new OS. Of course a million things are changed to the NT kernel but mostly updates to allow Windows to run smoother than before and accept more devices for PNP. On a side note MS has lost its innovative edge and relies on its vast wealth to take ideas from other companies or buys them out right to stay competitive.
 
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