[JoeProBono]

I’m going to ride Windows 7 till one of us croaks.

[Fido969]

Oh, gosh. Windows, where Bill Gates made 100 billion dollars selling the world vaporware.

Have you noticed that when windows “tries to fix the problem,” it NEVER does. It’s just a big confidence game.

[mountainlion]

I think I need several second opinions and do not trust CNN. Here as I type I get screens flashing every way and stupid useless software popups covering the edge of the screens. What a useless bunchy of garbage you are windows. You pop up a screen that says update to windows 8.1 free and when I click on it you give me a message that “can not find store” MS Dos worked better than windows 8.

[loungitude]

I just ordered a new laptop. With Windows 7.

[dayglored]

Looks like a candidate for a Windows Ping List ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[dayglored]

Hi SeekAndFind,

Feel free to ping me on threads of potential interest to Windows folks. Thanks!

-- dayglored

[oh8eleven]

Microsoft Listened to you
What a concept - who knew? Always reminds of when I was a kid, my mom would take me shopping with her to the A&P.
Above the manager's office was a sign that read:

RULES
1. The customer is always right.
2. See rule number one.

[bigbob]

Time will tell, WIn 8.1 is fine once you install Classic Shell and banish the Metro garbage.

I just hate sites like this CNN crapsite where after a minute or so, some garbage video finally gets done loading and starts blasting audio.

[Billthedrill]

Windows 8 was a difficult out-of-the-box adjustment to consumers...

Taking away the entire desktop and replacing it with something off a cell phone was a little - well, not "difficult", it was arrogant, high-handed, and infuriating, an idea that Marketing could only have passed through the chain by avoiding focus groups and any other actual user interaction. I recall sitting in an introduction meeting watching the screen of Server 2012 coming up and asking how we were supposed to navigate the thing, and the marketeer they sent said cheerily, "just touch the screen and the charms will appear." The what? And just how many servers in the entire world have touchscreens, anyway? Bad, bad, bad idea, made worse by the initial unbending response. This won't be that - I've already seen enough betas to know that. Can't wait for the release to market.

[aquila48]

Are operating systems that relevant anymore - at least for your average PC or mac user? Don’t most of us now spend most of our time on a browser?

[RayChuang88]

The best thing about Windows 10: on desktop and "conventional" laptop computers, Windows 10 has a look and feel very akin to Windows 7, Vista and XP. That right there means people upgrading to Windows 10 won't face the ridiculous learning curve that Windows 8 users had to endure with that Modern tiled interface.

[zeebee]

Lipstick on a pig.

[Da Coyote]

As a Microsoft loather, I must admit that Windows 7 was good, and I gladly used it at work. It is fast and reliable.

As for Apple, their new leader(?) appears to want to switch quality places with Microsoft. Safari sux, and things are getting pretty thin when Apple’s big new product is a friggin’ watch.

A watch that has to be recharged daily.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Microsoft, don’t pee down my leg and tell me it’s raining.

[CarmichaelPatriot]

They’ll do the exact opposite for Window 11 or 10.1 or whatever the call the version after 10 and it’ll be another Vista/8 fiasco.

History repeats itself.

On a side note, I’m looking forward to OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which Apple is assuring everyone will work on all Apple machines manufactured since 2008. I wonder how many PC’s of that age will be able to load up and run Windows 10?

[MayflowerMadam]

If MS were really smart, they’d resurrect XP and package it as 10.

I hated my Vista until we bought a PC with Windows 8. It was returned to Best Buy the next day and now I have a loving relationship with Vista.

[umgud]

I have Win 7 at work and Win 8.1 at home. I often get email attachments in Winmail format, which I can’t open. It’s not consistent from file type or sender.

I sure wonder and hope Win 10 fixes this.

[MEG33]

My computer helper has the beta version and loves 10.
I told him I was waiting until they get it just right.

[ansel12]

I went from XP to 8.1 and like 8.1. Windows 10 will probably be pretty good.

[chris37]

I am definitely interested in Direct X 12, so I’ll be switching over when it comes out and drivers are ready to employ that.