Forget about Windows 9... MS has announced Windows 10

So, are they skipping Win9 altogether and going directly to 10 or will Win9 still be released as freebie (sort of a Beta Win10)??

Downloading now. I have a computer I can test it on. But I am itching to install it on my main computer. hehe

Man, I think they're messin' with The Force, if that's the plan they've got in mind.  Everybody knows that alternate releases of Windows respectively rock/suck.  Is skipping Windows 9 going to give us a suck/suck progression?  I don't like this one bit! 

Version number 9 is being skipped to distance the new release, conceptually, from Windows 8x. Microsoft screwed the pooch when they changed the start menu, start screen, and made touch-screen apps live in, essentially, a different shell than the desktop.
 
Business and industry won't touch it with a 10-foot pole - they're all sticking with 'good 'ol' Windows 7 for now - and you can't blame them. This is what happens when you try to 'wag the dog' on your user base - attempting to increase uptake of the touch interface by adding artificial restrictions to desktop usage. The user base revolts - you're not selling them what they need.

Windows 10 will bring back the desktop, and let 'Apps' live along side them.


I think the lesson is, don't cannibalize an existing market just to go after a new one, unless you're in the 'bling' business.

(This is why Apple can get 10 million apple-bot suckers to up for a new iPhone with a feature set we droid users have had for years. Bling is hard though, you've got to hit it out of the park every time or the luster wears off and people leave.)

Magic Russ
One of the explanations being passed around is that a lot of installers for old products contained lazy code that instead of checking for windows version = "Windows 95" or "Windows 98" would just check to see if the version contained "Windows 9".  

That's a possibility I hadn't thought of. I think it's a stretch though - It's unlikely that anyone would bother to install anything from that era (15-20 yrs old) on a modern machine.
 
Yes People, if you remember using Windows 95 at work, you are officially OLD. If you remember Windows 3.0/3.1...  

SuperG

Magic Russ
One of the explanations being passed around is that a lot of installers for old products contained lazy code that instead of checking for windows version = "Windows 95" or "Windows 98" would just check to see if the version contained "Windows 9".  

That's a possibility I hadn't thought of. I think it's a stretch though - It's unlikely that anyone would bother to install anything from that era (15-20 yrs old) on a modern machine.
 
Yes People, if you remember using Windows 95 at work, you are officially OLD. If you remember Windows 3.0/3.1...  

uh I have a Microsoft Window 1.0  5" floppy disk set. what does that make me?  what are you trying to say?
 
BTW I don't like change  LOL.
 
OH and um I just ordered my iPhone 6 Plus 128gb, it's not about bling, it's about easy of use and convenience - I had a android and my experience with that phone was horrible, though the phone was rated very high.
 
I have win7 pro, I will not EVER put win8 on any of my machines, I might put on win 10 IF they address everything and it works for me.

Dang, I'm just getting a DAW with W8. I'm optimistic though. Maybe I'll upgrade to 10 after a while if everything is well. I do still have my W-95, 98 and ME disks just in case. At least we don't have to use floppy disks anymore. I'm surprised those things worked at all. They really were floppy, until they made them smaller. Then they weren't floppy anymore but they still called them floppy. You'd think someone is marketing would have moved Heaven and Earth to remove the name "floppy" from any product.
BTW, I am reading my way through the comments on the link. Good... no BAD. Bad... no GOOD!
I like the Windows Nein, LOL.
 
J

Missed out Windows NT. I think NT 3.5.1, NT 4, and Windows 2000 were excellent for it's time but nowhere near as good as what we have now. I certainly didn't regard any as sucky products.

When 2000 came out it was a leap ahead, and then another huge leap was XP.

Vista and 8.0 were questionionable products bottom line (I liked 8.0 myself but 8.1 was better) but somewhat of an inevitable transition. Now Apple has the bug.

Microsoft Bob.
 
while not technically an official MS OS a lot of BOB features and functionality still live on on many of MS's OS releases.

I wouldn't put much stock into an early tech preview release - especially in terms of drivers. I don't see MS changing the NT driver system all that much, nor moving around the audio system as they did (for DRM reasons) in Vista. I would expect there'd be some new features, but the whole purpose of W10, as I see it, is to marry the desktop and touch interfaces as *equal* partners in of UI priorities. No more having to run around to the back door if you want to speak desktop instead of touch UI.

gustabo

that was funny, but you forgot Windows Millennium or as it is better known Windows ME. Which was an even bigger bloated version of Windows 98e. It goes between 2000 and XP. When we count to 10 we can't have any missing numbers....