Windows 9 and 8.1 Update 2 Teased in Leaked Image

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Status
Not open for further replies.
"but a mixture of live tiles and classic elements to make the menu come alive."

I think microsoft needs to outsource it's "making things come alive" endeavours, they aren't particularly good at it, 3rd party consumer creators would be most ideal. Windows 8's metro display looks about as alive as a brick wall. Just with bigger more coloured blocks, and a few stamps.
 
"Thanks to leaked image"

And where might that image be Tom's? You certainly didn't embed it in the article.
 
Any Windows 7 SP1 users who skipped Windows 8 around October 2012 can now post comments about Windows 9 (Not Windows 8.1 update 2). The reason why you are saying bad things and trashing Microsoft down was because Microsoft was fixing Windows 8 which is a wrong decision. Are you still on Windows 7? Are you excited about Windows 9 upgrade? I know you are going to love this new Cortina technology and you will love the new idea of live tiles. Saying bad things about live tiles only happened because it was on Windows 8? If you are one of the few people who want Microsoft to bring back legacy Windows O.S's like Windows 7 or XP, do not post anything there.

How do you like faster start up on Windows 9?

Are you waiting for Windows 9 if you are on Windows 7?

You called Windows 8 bunch of squares and you said you don't need weather information to pop up on your computer in the start screen because you want to keep your brain away from Windows 8, I know you will get excited about not having to turn on the TV to check weather forecast with Windows 9 Live tiles for weather just like you hated Vista design and you loved vista design on Windows 7. Will you like to see weather on your computer without having to turn on your TV on Windows 9

Windows 7 SP1 users, are you just too excited to move to Windows 9 as quickly as possible by the time it comes out around summer 2015? Did you travel to soo many places in 2013 and even 2014-2015 when you were keeping your mind away from Windows 8?

How did keeping yourself away from Windows 8 improved your overall health?
 
Haters ruined it for all of us who actually like windows 8 the way it was, I don't wan't the start menu back, it's old, clunky and you can't fit near as much stuff on it the same way you can with the start screen. With the start screen you can have icons for everything, I don't need to scroll through a list of text and pick from that like it's 1995. The start screen never bogs down like the old start menu either, always fast and snappy.
 
A subscription-based OS is just the worst, worst idea. Subscription-based programs work fine, like Photoshop. The people who need Photoshop use it to generate income. So that's fine. Because people who don't need Photoshop don't need to buy it, and it isn't necessary to keep the computer you already paid money for up and running. Even the Office Suite, fine. A reasonable subscription fee for Office is acceptable because there are free alternatives. But why should any consumer have to spend money on a computer, and then spend additional money to an OS regularly just to keep the perfectly operational machine working? It's enough just paying for an ISP. It's a tragic idea and I think borderline abusive and immoral to consumers who paid money for a computer.
 
Microsoft is finally listening to their customers but merging the Windows 8 start menu with the Windows 7 start menu. Can't we have a choice and just separate the two? You could even use two start buttons or split a single start button to activate both. After using windows 8 for years, I now would like to keep both versions of the start menu to separate the Windows 8 apps from normal apps or customize all apps the way I want. I also would like to see multiple desktops and the scrolling of non active windows without making them active first. I really want my widgets back to see the Windows 7 calendar and Weather widgets that I found useful on the desktop. A customer has spoken.
 
A subscription-based OS is just the worst, worst idea. Subscription-based programs work fine, like Photoshop. The people who need Photoshop use it to generate income. So that's fine. Because people who don't need Photoshop don't need to buy it, and it isn't necessary to keep the computer you already paid money for up and running. Even the Office Suite, fine. A reasonable subscription fee for Office is acceptable because there are free alternatives. But why should any consumer have to spend money on a computer, and then spend additional money to an OS regularly just to keep the perfectly operational machine working? It's enough just paying for an ISP. It's a tragic idea and I think borderline abusive and immoral to consumers who paid money for a computer.
Click to expand...
I could not agree more! Things like Office 365 is great if you are getting a 4 year $80 student copy, or if you are running a home based business and are not quite ready to jump on the big Office 365 for Business packages yet... but for home users it is a raw deal, and I wish we could get our $120 3 license Home and Student version back.

Windows 9 and beyond should simply be free of charge. Windows is transitioning to an app ecosystem now, and that is where the real money is. Anything that gets in the way of Store app adoption needs to be killed off as quickly as possible. Make Windows itself free. Fix the store so it is usable. Make windows flexible enough to run at least at a basic level on 15+ year old XP machines. Give options for the Start Screen OR a Start Menu (I love the screen is great for home use, and the menu is great for business/productivity use, there is a need for both). Allow for floating Metro apps on desktop for true multi-tasking. Continue unifying the stores across all flavors of Windows (Phone/RT, Home/Pro, Server, Embedded, etc). Obviously easier said than done, but if MS can succeed at this then they will win the market share back from Android/iOS/Chrome/OSX which have taken a chunk of the share away.
The big exception to all of this: Disassociate professional features from the core OS. If you want to charge a yearly subscription for businesses to run domain services, or other business/corporate features, then make an added expansion package for the base OS to get your money that way. MS still needs to make money, but the idea that they can continue to charge more than $40 for a copy of windows this day an age is kind of ridiculous.
 
They seem to think 9 will get people to upgrade from XP.
I hope someone in Redmond realizes that most XP users still won't be using a touchscreen.
 
If windows 365 turned out to be the full featured OS and windows 9 is more of the basic, then the rise of Steam OS is near. lol

Windows platform only popular because of PC Gaming anyway (not the sole reason, but game plays a huge role). For productivity we can either use MacOS or Linux along with all the free-alternative-apps like office, etc. For gaming? Steam OS! No more limited library of Mac and Linux now. Truly visionary I must say there, Gabe, for its to be a coincidence.
 
I recently bought a Asus Laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed and it's not so bad that I can't find my way around. I upgraded to 8.1 since it was free and I can't see what all the fuss is about. I probably won't be upgrading my desktops to Windows 8 or 8.1 but for my mobile devices it alright.
 
They better give us back a start MENU instead of WINDOW for desktop UI.
I've got 24" screen , menu is ideal for a user like myself ! Switching whole screen is so annoying (it's the only reason I didn't install windows 8 even though i get it for free from my developer MSDN subscription)
 
Windows 365. Pay us annually or we will disable your OS. Ya. I can see it already.
Click to expand...
Not really, at present you pay once every 3 years or so to get the newest OS, and older OSs don't get the newest features and security updates. So if they drop the fee to a third its current and you pay annually instead of 3 years, then the same will apply. You can keep using your OS as long as you want but if you don't keep up your subscription you will be ineligible for updates and security patches.

No different than now.
 
Who on earth buys a new OS every 3 years? Unless the old one stinks, why would you bother? I have absolutely zero reason to move away from Windows 7.

A subscription model will see myself and many others simply drop the copy of Windows we maintain and use Linux or another alternative. The only reason I keep Windows is for games, but there is no way I'm paying a subscription on the OS so I can play F2P titles.
 
Windows 9 and beyond should simply be free of charge. Windows is transitioning to an app ecosystem now, and that is where the real money is. Anything that gets in the way of Store app adoption needs to be killed off as quickly as possible. Make Windows itself free. Fix the store so it is usable. Make windows flexible enough to run at least at a basic level on 15+ year old XP machines.... MS still needs to make money, but the idea that they can continue to charge more than $40 for a copy of windows this day an age is kind of ridiculous.
Click to expand...

The razor and blade business model has done very well for software in recent years, Microsoft could do well for itself to find a way to make it work.
 


Then you don't have to use it. You don't like being forced to go back to the way things were because Windows users wanted it that way yet tried to force people to use the new way of doing things. It wasn't just the haters, people didn't want to use W8 because the UI was confusing and irritating. And you don't have to scroll through a list of text on the start menu, there's a search bar on W7 that works just fine and it's not slow at all. Maybe there will be a 3rd party download for those who liked the original W8 format but MS is restoring the start menu because people don't want to use W8. Now if only they could fix the bugs and problems that W8 has and makes the updating easier W8 might be as good as W7.

But all thanks to Windows 8 and MS's business practice i have decided to move to Linux, not only because it'll save money on upgrading but because i don't want to be hunkered down to just one OS. If Windows becomes 100% cloud i want Linux to fall back on because some people want to change some things that doesn't need changing. The start menu didn't need changing and i have no reason to need a full screen start menu (the start screen) and i don't really see the necessity to go from W7 to W8. If i was on XP i'd be on Linux already before XP's support was dropped. I understand why people don't like W8 and i don't really care whether people like W8 or not, but i don't understand why people act like W8 is the future of doing things or that everyone should adapt or be left behind when some people out there don't know how to tweak their PC or do much of anything besides clicking facebook, a dvd player or using Microsoft Word.

And to say these people should not be using a PC if they can't learn how to use it, then there wouldn't be PC techs making money on fixing people's PCs.
 
Does Windows 8 have a desktop version? I have Windows 7. Why would I upgrade to windows 8 when it might force me to lift my arm and touch the screen? Why would i want to learn a completely different operating system when Windows 7 works fine?
 
I just purchased the WS Z97, I had a problems with this board until I flashed the Bios. You would think that a company like Asus would get the bios correct (mostly) before they sell the damn thing. This cost me a lot of wasted time. I now love the board, but I almost returned it.
 
What "Modern UI?" I hope not Metro that thing sucks, and where is this image you speak of? This article takes up space without telling us anything useful. Aside from the fact that Microsoft is still not listening to its customers and continuing to make the UI more unfriendly to desktop users.
 
The main thing is that Win8 UI is just plain ugly, inconvenient and mainly designed for tablets. Microsoft removes functions most people use everyday and then calls that in 'improvement' it is not. I thought Ribbons was bad in 7 and taking away the tool bar docking feature for WMP was stupid. But Win 8 took messing with users customize-ability and familiarity to a whole new level. Microsoft just does not listen to its customers very well. They force on them what they think we should have, rather than what we want.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom