and they are just skipping over 9 because....?
Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves after Win 8. Win 8 should have been packaged as a video game entitled “Bug Hunt”
Free XPP.
Did computer programs get renamed for some special reason?
I know hard drive directories got renamed "folders" to make the technically illiterate feel more comfortable.
I use Windows 8.1. I skipped 7. So my experience is with Vista.
So ...
I don’t get this issue with the old start menu. I like the tile based start menu. I really like it. Can somebody explain to me why we want to go back to the old start menu. I just don’t get it.
So will it be cheaper to buy a discounted windows 8 now and get the free upgrade or just buy windows 10 then, or will they price windows 10 at the same level as windows 8?
It will probably be an improvement. At least it isn’t over Steve Ballmer’s ample, dead body. Leadership change at MSFT was long overdue.
bump
Rumor had it that it will only be free to retail Win 8/8.1 licenses (people who paid the $40. Win 7/XP upgrade fee or bought the full retail “box”), not Win 8 OEM licenses. We’ll see I guess.