Posted on 09/26/2014 1:20:14 PM PDT by Red Badger
Microsoft is about to introduce Windows 9 next week at an event, ahead of its widespread release in 2015. The project for the next Windows operating system has been given the internal code name as Threshold.
Microsoft watchers have noted that the next OS could indeed be a needed threshold move to win back business users who were put off by Windows 8 because of its tiles-based interface instead of the start menu they had relied on in Windows 7 and older Windows versions. The frustration was palpable last year, and one example was a posting in Micro Doctor, a technology solutions company, headlined "Windows 8.1 is a huge disappointment." Mark Richmond, CEO, said, "If Microsoft does not bring back the Start Menu, I predict Windows 8 will become the second biggest Operating System blunder since Microsoft Vista. Every PC we sell today has Windows 7 Pro installed or downgraded from Windows 8. Perhaps they need to Spin off Windows 8 Touch and Bring out a Windows 9 Corporate Edition with the start menu again."
There are hopes and expectations for a revamped treatment of a Start Menu that looks more familiar to Windows users before the onset of tiles. In addition have been discussions about what Windows 9 will be called—if not Windows 9. Reports indicate Microsoft might unveil a new name for the software. If so, the name change would be "symbolic of a new direction for Microsoft moving away from an aggressive focus on Windows and PCs," said a report in The Guardian by Samuel Gibbs and agencies. The report quoted Daniel Ives, an analyst at investment bank FBR Capital Markets, who said Windows 9 was a potentially game-changing product release for Microsoft.
Microsoft had sent out invitations to journalists to "hear about what's next for Windows and the Enterprise" on Tuesday in San Francisco, reported InfoWorld. Woody Leonhard, senior contributing editor, said in InfoWorld that next week's event, however, should not be expected to provide finer details, but instead to provide a preview to "show off the plumbing and the broad strokes of Windows' future."
Reflecting on possible release dates for Windows 9, Redmond Magazine reasoned in August that a release in spring next year would reflect timing with the next Build event for developers. "Microsoft has previously used its Build events as a main venue to show off its next Windows releases." Another date for the release being eyed is the week of May 4, 2015, which coincides with an event titled "Unified Microsoft Commercial Technology Event," thought to serve as a replacement for TechEd, SharePoint Conference, Lync Conference, Exchange Conference and Project Conference events.
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Not bad at all. I see it as a bonus. Especially if Microsoft does software efficiency stress test on modifications. Without all the overhead bloat, Windows would probably fly like it had wings.
W-8 should have never been released by MS as a desktop/laptop OS. MS also changed a lot of terminology on W-8 which added more to the confusion. Having never used a computer before just WEB-TV I was using W/98SE in a matter of a few hours to where most of my time wasn't spent trying to locate program functions or files. W/ME I bought the upgrade disk on my 98/2 was a pathetic joke. I could not even in safe mode stop the OS from writing to the HD so Disk Scan and Defrag could be accomplished. I uninstalled W/ME.
W/XP took me an hour or two and was stable. Three computers running XP and only one reformat in ten years between the three combined IMO is an outstanding stable OS. I didn't buy W/7/ because W/XP met my needs.
W/8 made me cuss fuss and took literally weeks to get set up & used too because they played hide and seek with programs, files, and other functions. Windows also went to an APPS set up on W/8. Functions that came with XP were no longer there such as a decent Mail Client. But MS would rent you one though. I would have been forced to fork over about $100 to MS just to regain access to many of my text documents had it not been for LibreOffice Program which is free and not MS.
W/8 was like going onto a car lot with money to buy a mid size car as you had done in years past and the dealer saying here's your Yugo and they stripped out everything you need including windshield wipers you could rent. But I want a mid size sedan that's equipped? You'll take the Yugo, buy options we offer you, and you'll like it. Our corporate office says so. If I seem anti MS {remember I bought four previous machines with successful stable releases and had no complaints} my complaints are only about proven bad OS designs that MS purposely released for the sake of a release. The designers of W/8 and the QA department who vetted it should have been fired. MS should have pulled it using W/7 as replacement and started over.
You spent more time b*tching about spending time on a miniscule fix.
Here’s a video for Windows 8.0 and 8.1 to get classic start back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMEx7Yr57Po
And people can b*tch about Google too because they do the same thing especially with their Maps program or their Chat interfaces. People get used to using those apps and all of a sudden Google downloads an update and many things are changed.
And Mac? In my experience Mac can be really clunky or slow or too many clicks to do a simple task.
There’s plenty of gripes to go around.
But I came here to learn something about Windows 9 ideas/plans. Instead too many people are griping about things that are so easy to fix.
See the link in #63. It’s so simple it’s not arguing about.
And if you read the thread you would see that people already covered that Win 8 doesn’t have by itself a reset feature for the classic start menu but Win 8.1 does. It’s already been covered!
But the more important point is this is not supposed to be a b*tch session about Windows 8. This is supposed to be a discussion about what Windows 9 might look like. People are more interested in wasting time b*tching than in discussing Windows 9.
The question is what lessons did MS learn if any? Will they listen or are they still simply going to push more of the same meaning a Game System/X-BOX/tablet OS off onto Laptop/Desktops user which many persons including businesses and medical fields still use? Did MS learn their lesson or are they continuing their arrogance that W/8 was not a mistake?
I'll definitely have to see a significant change for the better before I even consider trying it much less putting down money to upgrade. More in this same direction IMO is not a change for the better. If MS Corp thinks all is forgiven this time they are sadly mistaken. It's pathetic when a private release browser works better on a MS OS than their own browser and is more stable. It's pathetic when Third Parties have to FIX MS major blunders for them.
The idea is to hardwire up as many brains as possible Stepford Fahrenheit 451 style. And if not successful, force it through the government Extortion-Care style.
Windows 7 is actually Vista
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I don’t know about Vista “home” ,, but Vista Business is win7.
Why so angry?
I wasn’t simply griping. I was informing you that your single-user, parochial viewpoint is woefully limited in its scope. Similarly, you just came back and essentially told me that my analysis was garbage because it didn’t fit your happy-go-lucky acceptance of wasted time and effort to undo something that shouldn’t have been done.
I’m glad you enjoy Windows 8 and/or 8.1. I find neither acceptable for a host of reasons. And I spent some of my valuable time to try and educate you on some of those reasons. Sorry I wasted my time, as you are obviously irrationally exuberant about the tile interface.
Have a great evening, FRiend. I won’t waste any more of my time trying to help you broaden your horizons.
This site has a few more photos of Windows 9
http://winsupersite.com
They should call it Windows 8.2 because it looks and acts pretty much the same according to the writer at that site
That article someone linked said that there will still be a charms thing but it won’t do anything in desktops, only for touch screens.
Weird. One of the most annoying things possible is having icons and stuff on your desktop that don’t do anything.
I don’t use Windows 8 or 8.1. If you had read the thread you would read that I use Windows 7. As I posted previously I am not a big Windows fan but Windows 7 works for me and I have no reason to change.
I came here to read about Windows 9 and instead see a bunch of crybabies b*tch about the classic start menu lacking and then I find it’s fixable in less than a minute for free.
Your long diatribe about how fixing the start menu on Windows 8 or 8.1 took so much time and energy was blatant rubbish in the face of reality of a simple free fix that takes less than a minute. It added nothing to the discussion about Windows 9 which was supposed to have been the subject of this thread.
I see a small cabal of idiotic anti-Microsoft posters on blogs and forums throughout the internet. They are either paid to slander Microsoft or they are idiots. They never bad mouth Google which has plenty of crap changes nor do they ever bad mouth Apple. Here’s a link to a description of one of Apple’s foul ups:
http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-mops-up-ios-mess-with-new-update/
Did you post long rants about Apple? No! You took so so much time to crybaby us about how oh so much time and energy and expense it took oh the horror for you to deal with Windows start menu and then I showed it takes less than a minute for free to fix. Poor Crybaby!
Now if you have any worthwhile comments about what Windows 9 might bring to the future, I am willing to read them.
Thank you. Just what I was looking for.
http://winsupersite.com/windows/first-look-windows-technical-preview
“Microsoft is bringing back the Start menu in the new Windows.”
And I read there’s a lot of other highly functional added features that enhance user experience especially as to customization and integrating mobile apps.
Importantly there’s a user feedback opportunity:
“Microsoft has created a new Windows Insider Preview Program so that users can get more frequent preview builds and provide feedback to the company.”
So there should be no excuse for users to gripe that Microsoft turned their world upside down.
> “There has to be discussion about W/9 because of the major W/8 screwed up rushed released caused the speed up release of W/9. You can’t reasonably discuss one without discussing the other.”
Bullsh*t! Read post #73 and the link in it and stop your b*tchin.
Those complaining must not have any grandkids to ask to fix the problem.
Yes, it was easy to go back to the screen, but not if you are over 45...
I am well over 45.
And I have no grandkids near me to fix the woes of my computer experience.
What I do have is an ability to use a search engine like Google, Bing, Ask, Yahoo or so many others.
And almost every time my searches take me to YouTube videos in which young people have taken the time to explain how to fix problems simply and for free.
There is no excuse today.
Those who clutter up a news thread with woe is me comments should learn how to fix their problems without acting like crybabies.
When you have customers saying to MS corporation that they would pay the W/8 price to keep functional and reliable XP so as not to have to use their Botched product W/8 such a corporation has issues.
Now for W/9 discussion. Just what have they done in W/9 to return to a quality user friendly product? It's it's more of the same X-Box Squares hide and seek programs and files they can keep it. People do not buy desktops and laptops for a Tablets, Games, and cell phone, type OS. I refuse to be ripped off again.
BTW I noticed the Washington State Flag on your homepage. A MS company employee perhaps?
And Apple gets praised for this while Microsoft products are called "buggy".
What does that tell you?
That windows 8 is so fragile, it can be screwed up by someone in minutes, even if it's just a demo model? That the "techs" at the place had no idea how to actually lock the things down so they couldn't be screwed with?
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