I’m looking forward to Win10.
Presently run a couple of Win7 machines, and one Win8.1.
Win 8 was a nightmare in that you had to configure it to work like what eventually became Win 8.1. Configure out all the touch screen stuff. Nobody wanted to pay for that kind of experience or lack of consideration from M.S..
With Win8.1 you presently have to add an extra program to get a normal startbutton and startmenu. This will be the same with Win10. Win8.1 in reality will and over time will just be viewed as a stripped down Win10-— the Chevy compared to the Buick, both made by G.M. Windows 10 just being a Win8.1 with more bells and whistles.
Also I use 3rd party software for multiple desktops which is sometimes buggy and Microsoft Win10 is supposed to add their own so this may be more stable.
Overall Win8.1 is better than Win 7, tighter faster code, more reliable, and best OS install experience I’ve ever had.
Right at the beginning of the install, it gets your wifi password and starts downloading needed drivers by itself as part of the install. All my computers are Dell, didnt even need to go to the Dell page to get my custom batch of drivers for my machine like I had to for XP/Win 7. Not needed!
Nothing wrong with 8.1 after you install you own start menu program.
I’ve got Vista/Win7-ready machines running Win7 and Win8, and Vista/Win7 ready machines should run Windows 10—no problem. Found XP-ready machines were not well accomodated to Win7. Although would work, but at a significant performance hit.
BTW, I code for a living, degreed in C.S., so my view may be different from yours.
Well, Vista was a big break from XP, then 7 improved slightly on that (internally mostly). Then 8 also did improved internals and the new layout. 10 will also be Vista based.
I don’t seeing them really changing the deep kernel of windows for another 10 years at least. Too much stuff relies on OLE and its descendants still. And the registry would need to be completely redone or eliminated at some point. At one point there was going to be a new file system to replace NTFS in 7 that would help kill the registry, but they know that’ll take as long to change as it took from going to DOS to Win3.1. Many years.