Read about it here...

http://www.pcworld.com/ar...-windows-8-owners.html

Yup end of month...
In other words they are renaming Windows 8.2 to Windows 9 in a rebranding exercise.

Hey I'm just grateful I don't have to pay another "upgrade fee"...those are getting
VERY OLD (and so am I) LOL

The journalist is a genius (not):

" A free upgrade for all would make sense, though, in that it would make it easier for Microsoft to entice as many of its users as possible to upgrade to the latest and greatest."

Stupid circular logic every way you look at it.

The only way I would see it being for pre Win 8 machines is if MS took a view they would be making money out of their metro app store and they feel they won't be making money out of OEM hardware any more. Unlikely but you never know...

Will windoze 9 be two better'n windoze 7?
 
Seben werks fur me.

There is not a whole lot wrong with 8.1. I will probably sit this out for a while as I have my most stable computer ever.

Glyn Barnes
There is not a whole lot wrong with 8.1. I will probably sit this out for a while as I have my most stable computer ever.

A hearty +1!!

I, too, have to say that everything has worked well with 8.1
and I'm quite content...

I had major issues with the 8.1 update (crashed my system due to the graphics driver issues with th 8.1 automatic update), but Win 8 has been very stable for me.
 
I'll (possibly) only upgrade to Win 9 after all the "gotta have it now" peeps test it out and give a positive review. I'm i no hurry to jump on aboard.  

I think I have used every version of windows since version 1.0 back in the day.
 
I bought a new PC that had windows 8 on it and it's the first time I actually cried in frustration using a computer.  I was so distraught the next day I returned everything and bought a different machine that had win 7 Pro on it.
 
GEWD I hated Win 8.  I won't use it, no way no how.  Windows 9?!  haha yeah, um gunna be hard pressed to bring me back into the fold.
 
I'll go Mac before I go to win 8 or 9.