Now you know why Windows 9 is a free upgrade for all users of windows 8.

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.

Never understood all the hate for win 8 personally. Works just fine for me, so much so that I haven't even gone for the 8.1 update in case it screws something up the way "improvements" often do.
 
On the other hand, they totally ruined the email app when they forced outlook on us.

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

dmbaer
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! 

You are right about that. I have thought about that a lot, it's almost like Microsoft doubles up on it's sales by making a crappy version in between versions. In my opinion it goes something like this :
 
Windows 98 - Good
Windows 2000 - Sucks
Windows XP - Good
Windows Vista - Sucks
Windows 7 (Vista Repaired) - Good
Windows 8 - Sucks
Windows 8.1 (Windows 8 Repaired and improved) - Good.
 
I'm currently using Windows 8.1 on a new computer. I really like the 8.1, but when I got this computer it came with Windows 8 which I used all of about 10 minutes and couldn't stand it. Luckily the 8.1 update was available and I didn't have to wait to get it.
 
 

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 has been loosing it's mojo for a number of reason.
 
The list of OS's & issues I disagree with but only going to bother mentioning 2 items.
Missing out on listing ME - the worst OS ever, thrown together because Microsoft had earlier disbanded the Win9x team and when they decided Windows2000 wasn't ready for the gaming & low end consumer market they threw together a team that had never worked together before to rush something to market.
Windows2000 was great. Maybe you couldn't play some of the latest games on it but it was stable as a rock. Just took the last system down last year, not because of OS problems but because the app that the client ran as an inhouse email distribution server was no longer needed. 

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.

CakeAlexS
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.

 W2K still my favorite OS.  It was a stable bridge between legacy and new at the time.  It was an expensive OS ($299) EDU - $149.  
 
 Just curious if anyone is trying W10.   I have a M-Audio FW410, AP2496, and an AP192. W7 may be the end of the line for those units.   

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.