LOL ... you're just a customer - WTH would MS listen to you?
Posted on 08/21/2014 9:54:03 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Windows 9 has been leaked, and seems to show a backing away from the aggressively touch-focused Windows 8, with a mini start menu and dropping of the Charms bar, but we’ll get a better look September 30, according to the Verge. The blog reports Microsoft is planning an official unveiling of what’s next for its desktop OS for that date, with a technology preview available for early adopters following quickly after that.
The upcoming Windows 9 release is codenamed ‘Threshold,’ and expectations are that we’ll see it arrive for the general public as a stable release sometime early next year. Previously, we covered what might be happening with the new release, which suggests that the desktop might be getting a return to glory in the new version – think more Windows 7 in your Windows 8 experience. Expectations are that Modern Windows (aka Metro) will still exist in the next generation, but it’ll be more closely integrated with the desktop side, with apps running in windowed mode instead of requiring you to switch between the two environments.
As a fairly frequent Windows user, but mostly on a desktop gaming PC, I’m excited about the new (old) direction Microsoft’s OS is apparently headed in – let’s hope they don’t go in a different direction what they actually unveil in late September.
They should shorten it to Trash.
The only noticeable difference between Windows Vista and Windows 7 was the elimination of Windows Vista's constant consumption of memory / bad memory management.
It's been awhile, but IIRC they were virtually identical UI's. Windows 7 just "fixed" Vista's memory & performance issues.
For Windows 9 to be to Windows 8 what Vista was to Windows 7, that means the UI stays the same and the performance issues are "fixed."
Granted Windows 8's conflicting UI's (Metro vs. Desktop) sucks rocks, but the performance over Windows 7 is really quite good.
So I think your analogy is wrong. Windows 9 will be to Windows 8 what Windows XP was to Windows 3.11/Windows for Workgroups.
You're right: I'm just a customer. Who just so happens to have decision making power on the desktop OS of a very large international bank.
If Microsoft doesn't listen to us, we don't upgrade our OS. They don't make millions of dollars off of us. It's that simple.
If enough of us (big corporations) do it, eventually Microsoft has to listen or die.
I'm a firm believer in pure market based capitalism and voting with one's dollars.
It has been more than ten years ...
And yes, I'm using Windows (XP/Vista/7/8).
I want XP back.
Haters gonna hate.
I got one just the other day when one application clobbered another in memory on my Windows 8.1 pc.
Granted, it's a rather old app that I use as part of my amateur radio hobby so I don't blame that on Windows.
Since then I virtualized the app into a VM running Windows XP under VMWare. Since that application doesn't need internet access, I also disabled the NIC under VMWare for that Windows XP VM. problem solved.
Your common sense approach to Microsoft products is not welcome on FR, FRiend. We are an MS-hating bunch here.
/sarc
Silliness aside, you are spot on with your assessment of Win8, but I disagree that Win7 was the “prettier” OS. I think Win8 wins across many measures for aesthetics.
Win7 had the “bubble” feel to it. Win8 has gone back to the “2D” look and feel where flat and edgy wins. Full disclosure, I work in Win8.1 and Server 2012 R2 all day, every day, so I may be biased but I’m also experienced.
Not enough to matter.
I’ve had my imac less than a month and it already got stuck in “your computer had to restart due to a software issue” loop.... wouldn’t go into safe mode.
And a few other problems. My last computer was win 7 and stayed on for months at a time.
The only solutions I saw on any forums was to suggest that it was 3rd party hardware. Which there was none. But then again for other small problems, the only suggestion I’ve seen for anything is that it is 3rd party something. Never Apple. I hear the support is pretty good though.
Some things ios does in a slower and dumber way than windows though. Can’t drap and drop from memory cards to folders. pretty lame
There’s always one ...
Wow. I’ve used Imacs for nearly a decade and that has never happened. I update my software regularly. Sometimes a particular program left running will hang up an update, but that is not a big deal.
You may want to go to some iMac forum with your problem and I will be there is a quick fix to it.
When I was using Windows on a daily basis for my photography work it would need to be restarted a couple of times a day because even though the program would close a large image, the memory remained “captured.” I figured I was spending almost a full work week every year waiting for it to restart. This was never an issue with the Mac.
I'm finding my conservative, common sense approach in general is increasingly unwelcome here on FR. Guess I've been around too long. Not many of us Class of '98 left on here...
Silliness aside, you are spot on with your assessment of Win8, but I disagree that Win7 was the “prettier” OS. I think Win8 wins across many measures for aesthetics.
Aesthetics are more personal preference in nature than "fact based." It's like art. Some people love Picasso, people like me can't stand it. (Since my office window looks out on Dirksen Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago --- the murder capaital of the world --- where a huge Picasso is housed, I speak from some experience here.)
Win7 had the “bubble” feel to it. Win8 has gone back to the “2D” look and feel where flat and edgy wins. Full disclosure, I work in Win8.1 and Server 2012 R2 all day, every day, so I may be biased but I’m also experienced.
Disclaimer: I have a slight vision impairment so I cannot speak to the "bubble" effect you see. I see a more "flat" and "opaque" or "transparent" effect in Windows 7. Windows 8's flat/pastel colored tile effects aren't visually appealing to me. I frankly never understood why Microsoft introduced two completely conflicting UI paradigms in Windows 8. Especially when one of those paradigms was completely contradictory to the concept of windowed applications (the Metro UI.)
Really? I haven’t seen a BSOD since Windows 2000. There are teenagers going to college who have never seen and have no idea what BSOD even means.
Don't start me on yet another redesign of the Office UI. I'm still digging users out from the "Let's do everything with ribbons!" switcheroo. And that was a long time ago now. I still have users stubbornly clinging to WordPerfect. It's how they work, it's how they're effective. It isn't really up to the vendors to tell them how they ought to be doing their business.
Really, true. My experience aside from that example pretty much mirrors yours. Aside from a bad memory stick here or there or a really crappy driver (both of which will also cause a BSOD) I've not seen but maybe a handful or less of BSOD's in the last 10 years or so.
I went to Windows 7 after rebuilding my desktop and really like it. However, I have worked on friends laptops with Windows 8 and about lose my sanity. I always thought that Windows 8 will be another Windows Vista so it is no surprise that Microsoft is going back to a more Windows 7 platform.
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