Windows 9 Expected To Push Consumers Off Windows XP

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i am the first in write rubbish!! what windows 9? what for? people still is using XP and seven.. okey more to complain about...
 
They will have to pry XP from my cold, dead, hands...And they will have to do the same with 7 too...Better have a sturdy crow bar handy... None of that chinese crap either...
 
We can also throw in 2000 for my older machines too. The ones with proprietary hardware that microsoft seems to never want to give even second hand support....>_>
 
"Is Windows 8 really that horrible? Definitely not."

I agree Windows 8 isn't horrible. It functions on the PCs with which it ships, making it better than ME or Vista. It is relatively secure, making it better than Pre-SP1 98 or post-April XP. It just has one minor issue that belies all positives: No one likes it! The charms, the tiles, the hot corners--these are all functions that lowers usability and enjoyment. Considering that an OS only serves to operate the PC to its intended purpose, not be the machine's usage itself, failure to provide ease and enjoyment of interactivity is crippling.

Hopefully Windows 9 resolves this, I do not want to be stuck with 7 forever and ever.
 
MS just needs to understand that Desktop UI cannot be like Smartphone UI.Bring back the start MENU and get rid of the start SCREEN. Desktops got a big screen, they don't need a dedicated screen for start menu...
 

Humm, no.

Last I heard, Win9 will be 64bits-only so if your hardware does not have 64bits drivers, it is as good as dead and buried for Win9 - you can still run 32bits programs with WoW32 but not kernel-space drivers. Also, Microsoft changed a bunch of things in their driver model between XP and Win7 to improve things such as security, reliability, performance and DRM so going back is not really an option.

If your hardware is too old to have 64bits Win7 drivers, it most likely won't be able to handle Win9 too well even if it could run it.
 
Unless Win 9 includes an option for a classic desktop and is able to run on older hardware. people will stick with XP or move to Linux.Dell and others are just talking up Windows to keep MS happy.
 
What? The "cool factor" of the Modern UI will eventually win everyone over? Is this some kind of joke? For one and a half years the majority of users, and specially enterprise users, kept telling Microsoft: get rid of Modern UI, or at least give as a Classic Desktop mode so we NEVER see any trace of the tablet UI on a desktop. Instead of addressing the root problem, Dell hopes that the "cool factor" will win customers over. Is Michael Dell being delusional?
 

Off-the-shelf PCs from the XP days only had 512-1024MB RAM. Today's bloaty Linux distributions require 512MB just to install and are only barely usable with that little RAM: load Firefox or Chrome with 3-4 tabs and between the browser, Gnome and Xorg, over 1GB of RAM is already gone - my Fedora 18 PC has 3.5GB in use with little more than that loaded excluding the 2GB used by the disk cache. (5.5GB total in use out of 8GB installed.)

People keep bashing Windows for being a resource hog but some Linux distros can be a fair bit worse. I'm sticking to Fedora simply because it is the distro I have personally consistently had the fewest grievous experiences with.
 
Well as much as Bill Gates is now returning after that "Other Guy" had left, I think it is about time we focus on Returning the OS to it's Glory Days of where Windows 2000 and XP were king, and right now it is much to the reason that we need to focus on keeping the OS More Classic than "High Tech" as replicating to Apple and Android which has Touch Screen Only Desktops like what Windows 8 is doing, that OS is too confusing and Too much, please make Windows 9 the Return of the Classic Skins.
 
why this crazy need to lunch new os, if this would be a windows 8 lunch date sure but windows 9 is way to early at least drop 2 big updates to w7 and then 2 big updates for w8. its all a rush. i like a os to last for about 4 years in the spot light.
 

I'm pretty much certain vandalizing people's PCs and equipment would be illegal and Microsoft would likely be found directly liable for all losses attributable to it. Depending on exactly who still uses XP for what, those liabilities could be quite steep.

All this talk about old OSes and software that does not run on newer OSes reminds me I still have a PC running Win98SE because FF7PC does not run properly on anything newer.
 
What? The "cool factor" of the Modern UI will eventually win everyone over? Is this some kind of joke? For one and a half years the majority of users, and specially enterprise users, kept telling Microsoft: get rid of Modern UI, or at least give as a Classic Desktop mode so we NEVER see any trace of the tablet UI on a desktop. Instead of addressing the root problem, Dell hopes that the "cool factor" will win customers over. Is Michael Dell being delusional?
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This is just the weekly "dump XP" article by Tom's in-house Microsoft public relations representative, Mr. Kevin Parrish. He used to be just annoying, now he's becoming disgusting.
 
I look at XP from the hardware angle of "640K ought to be enough for anybody." perspective 😉 Naturally it uses more than that, but consumes much less resources than Microsoft's newer alternatives. I objectively care about system resource minimalism and usability overall and XP excels at both tasks quite nicely. The only real thing that's kept me from switching over to Linux is the supported software side of things which is drastically less of a concern today than it was 5-10 years ago.
 
As long as it's not a rehash of more W8. I don't want to see a re-branding of W8. That includes 8.1, 8.2 and any other versions of W8 they have hiding in Balmer's bedroom closet, the one he stashes all of his XL oatmeal creme pies in....Hell, I'll be lenient, they want to sell me W8 so badly, give me something sans Metro, Can they at least give me that much? I'm not against faster computing, but I am against looking at colorful blocks staring at me, waiting to push them on my screen, even though I have a mouse and keyboard. Even more so, to hell with the easy use for social media sites like Face Book. I game online, can they make it easier for gamers to game online, as in support online gaming, and gaming in general? No more false promises. Basically, there's a lot of improvements that can be made to Windows, than what was had in the last package.
 


DDR2 RAM is cheap toss a couple of sticks in and you are good to go. Mint 13 with 3 tabs open in fire fox runs fine on 2 GB and that's about the most and average user has open.
 
Oh, so they aren't going to chunk the abhorrent "Modern UI"? Well, I guess I'll be skipping that version of windows as well.At this rate, the only way they'll convince me to leave Windows 7 is to make it incompatible with things down the road. Then I will leave Windows 7... for Linux or OSX.For all the complaints I have about Apple, at least they understand how to integrate iOS features into OSX. Not by turning the ENTIRE operating system into a giant iPhone (that's apparently their idea of the perfect tablet), but rather adding in features that take up about as much space as your phone would if you held it up to the monitor.
 
Metro stuff aside, is it so much to ask for more aesthetically pleasing window borders? I'm not sure why there was a decision to drop aero and go for plain solid and large title bars, but it's like a flashback to 3.11 - that's my problem, it's just flat out ugly.Linux let's you have all kinds of options to customise your UI, so why is it Microsoft are making it more and more basic as if we're 5 year olds who just like big flat coloured blocky things.
 
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