Windows 9 Preview May Arrive Later This Year

[Red_Sun]

Sigh. "People are afraid of change, etc., etc...." Change for the better. Not for the sake of change. The consumer is too used to the latter. Like your Win8? Good for you.

 

[voltagetoe]

They really should make the interface modular - hyper-customizeable. Could even load own interface settings from a cloud to whatever computer. If a person wants to add an XP-style quick lauch, why does it have to be so fricking hard. Windows 8 was a nightmare to powerusers - power is the way to go - not ape-level feature reduction. And oh boy why did they name all the regular applications as "legacy apps" - incredibly obtrusive way of pushing so called "modern" apps to the foreground.

 

[Abaddon]

Hopefully they learn from their mistakes and add Windows Media Center back into the Home Edition product. I would have kept the version of Windows 8 which came with my machine if they didn't want $100+ dollars to upgrade it to a professional edition and then pay for a Media Center licence. For a product which had been part of the home edition for years and isn't a "Professional'" tool.

 

[back_by_demand]

ClassicShell - everything else is talking rubbish

 

[ultameca]

Sounds like a step back to me

 

[lp231]

Here is a pic of what it might look like

 

[nikolajj]

Well, if you have both Win7 and 8, you might get two free Win9?

 

[MidnightDistort]

So many months later and people are still bitching about the lack of a start button, while many many others understood that Win 8 is actually better than 7 and even started getting along with the new Start screen that you get to see only once in a while... instead of crying about it or giving negatives to Win 8 and it`s users how about give it a try.

Funny thing is that at launch Win Xp was greeted with hate as well, it had higher hardware requirements, many users praised Win 98 SE back then like the holy grail... fast forward in time ... and everybody loved Xp... and contrary to popular belief even Vista ran well on the right hardware, but Win 7 had even lower system requirements thus putting Vista in the shadow as a fail OS. Same here with 8 but this time the complains are only for the Start menu/screen ...

I've been saying since W8 was first conceived that it was a bad idea (to get rid of the start menu) and yet your surprised that people are still complaining about the lack of a start menu?

There's other problems like the new way they do service packs. It was automatic before now they make you go to the store to get it. Windows 8 was a bad idea and still is, but in turn it got me on Linux.

 

[nikolajj]

So many months later and people are still bitching about the lack of a start button, while many many others understood that Win 8 is actually better than 7 and even started getting along with the new Start screen that you get to see only once in a while... instead of crying about it or giving negatives to Win 8 and it`s users how about give it a try.

Funny thing is that at launch Win Xp was greeted with hate as well, it had higher hardware requirements, many users praised Win 98 SE back then like the holy grail... fast forward in time ... and everybody loved Xp... and contrary to popular belief even Vista ran well on the right hardware, but Win 7 had even lower system requirements thus putting Vista in the shadow as a fail OS. Same here with 8 but this time the complains are only for the Start menu/screen ...

I've been saying since W8 was first conceived that it was a bad idea (to get rid of the start menu) and yet your surprised that people are still complaining about the lack of a start menu?

There's other problems like the new way they do service packs. It was automatic before now they make you go to the store to get it. Windows 8 was a bad idea and still is, but in turn it got me on Linux.

Win8.1 is more like a standalone OS, therefore in the store. Service packs is still delivered in WIndows Update.

 

[MidnightDistort]

That doesn't make any sense though if W8.1 was a standalone OS then W8 should still get support until 2023 or so. Either it is or it isn't a stand alone OS, MS seems to have it both ways here.

 

[DarkSable]

The picture of the start screen sums up everything that is wrong with W8/9/MS. All that's missing is the large fingerprints over the screen...a UI that has NO place in a desktop.

Note: the major complaint is not about the engine underneath, but about the obvious touchscreen implications that MS has been forcing users to adopt. In the future, with a perfectly functioning substructure (voice activation etc., etc.) then yes. Definitely not now.

...do you not realize that it's a stock photo that Tom's has been using for every single article about windows since the windows 8 preview?

Seriously, that's not a picture of windows 9, you have no idea what it will look like.

 

[josejones]

Will Windows 9 include DirectX 12 or not?