Windows 9 Preview May Arrive Later This Year
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exfileme
June 30, 2014 5:21:10 PM
Windows "Threshold" may not be called Windows 9.
Windows 9 Preview May Arrive Later This Year : Read more
Windows 9 Preview May Arrive Later This Year : Read more
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SteelCity1981
June 30, 2014 6:54:03 PM
TechyInAZ
June 30, 2014 7:06:50 PM
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tomfreak
June 30, 2014 7:14:53 PM
kawininjazx
June 30, 2014 7:28:03 PM
24oz
June 30, 2014 7:38:18 PM
Johnny_C13
June 30, 2014 7:48:19 PM
" Sources claim that Windows Threshold will be a free upgrade for Windows 8.1 customers and possibly even Windows 7 Service Pack 1 customers."
Tom's was wise to finish with this sentence, cause if it didn't, it's where I would of stopped reading. I find it very unlikely that MS would give either an updated Windows 8 or possibly a new OS 9 for free to W7 users (not that my Windows 7 desktop would be complaining!).
Tom's was wise to finish with this sentence, cause if it didn't, it's where I would of stopped reading. I find it very unlikely that MS would give either an updated Windows 8 or possibly a new OS 9 for free to W7 users (not that my Windows 7 desktop would be complaining!).
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falchard
June 30, 2014 8:06:00 PM
velocityg4
June 30, 2014 8:49:15 PM
Jay Stew
June 30, 2014 8:55:31 PM
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I will rage if they give win7 free upgrade. win8 user pays their OS not to be treated the same level as win7.Just what makes you think those of us on Windows 7 will run out and buy windows 9 without real value adds anyway? After the debacle that is Windows 8 on a notebook or desktop without all the features and clean run of Windows 7 I'm simply not convinced I "need" or "want" Windows 9.
I am certainly convinced that I do not "need" and sure as hell don't "want" windows 8. A substantial number of us still on Windows 7 were sold on it because it is largely the successor to XP which was a great OS and also got burned by Vista which was not an improved experience over XP.
Show me some stuff about Windows 9 that will get me excited Microsoft. Metro aint it. Flipping between desktop and table OS isn't' it either.
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canadianvice
June 30, 2014 9:22:36 PM
I have said this from the very start! All they need is to detect touchscreen vs. non-touch and allow the user the option of interface based on it. They had the code, they took it out, but this would be such a simple fix to a huge problem of adoption that they've had.
I really, really hope Windows 9 is the release to push me off 7, because I hate being a laggard.
I really, really hope Windows 9 is the release to push me off 7, because I hate being a laggard.
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ohim
June 30, 2014 10:47:59 PM
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I will rage if they give win7 free upgrade. win8 user pays their OS not to be treated the same level as win7.Just what makes you think those of us on Windows 7 will run out and buy windows 9 without real value adds anyway? After the debacle that is Windows 8 on a notebook or desktop without all the features and clean run of Windows 7 I'm simply not convinced I "need" or "want" Windows 9.
I am certainly convinced that I do not "need" and sure as hell don't "want" windows 8. A substantial number of us still on Windows 7 were sold on it because it is largely the successor to XP which was a great OS and also got burned by Vista which was not an improved experience over XP.
Show me some stuff about Windows 9 that will get me excited Microsoft. Metro aint it. Flipping between desktop and table OS isn't' it either.
So many months later and people are still bitching about the lack of a start button, while many many others understood that Win 8 is actually better than 7 and even started getting along with the new Start screen that you get to see only once in a while... instead of crying about it or giving negatives to Win 8 and it`s users how about give it a try.
Funny thing is that at launch Win Xp was greeted with hate as well, it had higher hardware requirements, many users praised Win 98 SE back then like the holy grail... fast forward in time ... and everybody loved Xp... and contrary to popular belief even Vista ran well on the right hardware, but Win 7 had even lower system requirements thus putting Vista in the shadow as a fail OS. Same here with 8 but this time the complains are only for the Start menu/screen ...
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trencher10
June 30, 2014 10:59:54 PM
Osmin
June 30, 2014 11:42:18 PM
Jim90
July 1, 2014 12:28:38 AM
The picture of the start screen sums up everything that is wrong with W8/9/MS. All that's missing is the large fingerprints over the screen...a UI that has NO place in a desktop.
Note: the major complaint is not about the engine underneath, but about the obvious touchscreen implications that MS has been forcing users to adopt. In the future, with a perfectly functioning substructure (voice activation etc., etc.) then yes. Definitely not now.
Note: the major complaint is not about the engine underneath, but about the obvious touchscreen implications that MS has been forcing users to adopt. In the future, with a perfectly functioning substructure (voice activation etc., etc.) then yes. Definitely not now.
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EdgeT
July 1, 2014 4:19:35 AM
My biggest problem with the Metro interface isn't even on Windows 8/8.1. It's on Windows 2012. In a SERVER OS! Also, in W8 ENTERPRISE. I mean, Really? Client-wise, ok, cool, have your toy-ish interface. But to have that on a professional level? That's corporate suicide. People in a work environment don't have time to fiddle around with what amounts to no more than a toy. On a tablet it would work great, but keep that shit off my servers. As a network technician, that pisses the hell out of me. Not to mention that some servers have a text-only interface, so what exactly is the point of it in a server environment?
As an OS, W2012 has awesome improvements over W2008, but the interface puts me and many of my co-workers off. We want to configure our server as efficiently as possible, not spend hours trying to figure out how to do things we used to do in a few clicks. Even the text-only servers are more intuitive and less time-consuming that this POS.
As an OS, W2012 has awesome improvements over W2008, but the interface puts me and many of my co-workers off. We want to configure our server as efficiently as possible, not spend hours trying to figure out how to do things we used to do in a few clicks. Even the text-only servers are more intuitive and less time-consuming that this POS.
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Matthew Busse
July 1, 2014 4:57:42 AM
rokit
July 1, 2014 5:06:08 AM
maxiim
July 1, 2014 5:45:10 AM
thundervore
July 1, 2014 5:59:43 AM
mahdiameri
July 1, 2014 6:04:02 AM
eklipz330
July 1, 2014 7:26:41 AM
windows 8 is not bad. i realized that people who are stuck on windows 7 and are unwilling to move to windows 8 have not given it enough time. it's been extremely stable and the problems i had when i first installed it have been ironed out.
metro isn't all that great, i barely use it. but if you need to find something, you just open metro and start typing. it'll automatically find whatever you are looking for. it's not that bad.
metro isn't all that great, i barely use it. but if you need to find something, you just open metro and start typing. it'll automatically find whatever you are looking for. it's not that bad.
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Duckhunt
July 1, 2014 8:31:37 AM
iogbrideau
July 1, 2014 10:04:50 AM
The truth is people are afraid of change. I adopted Windows 8 early on and never had any trouble, set it right away to go direct to desktop and I don't use the interface much, but still, it had, and still has in 8.1 update 1 all the stuff that Windows 7 has, and more. Even the menus, such as an alternate start menu just a rightclick away if you're on the desktop.
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iogbrideau
July 1, 2014 10:12:34 AM
EdgeT said:
My biggest problem with the Metro interface isn't even on Windows 8/8.1. It's on Windows 2012. In a SERVER OS! Also, in W8 ENTERPRISE. I mean, Really? Client-wise, ok, cool, have your toy-ish interface. But to have that on a professional level? That's corporate suicide. People in a work environment don't have time to fiddle around with what amounts to no more than a toy. On a tablet it would work great, but keep that shit off my servers. As a network technician, that pisses the hell out of me. Not to mention that some servers have a text-only interface, so what exactly is the point of it in a server environment? As an OS, W2012 has awesome improvements over W2008, but the interface puts me and many of my co-workers off. We want to configure our server as efficiently as possible, not spend hours trying to figure out how to do things we used to do in a few clicks. Even the text-only servers are more intuitive and less time-consuming that this POS.
If you don't know about Win+X you shouldn't be working on servers. I have worked on Server 2012 and it's pretty much the same as Server 2008R2 intefacewise, you just don't have the start menu, all the other stuff are at the same places they used to be, thus making it the same speed to set things up as they were on Server 2008R2.
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Red_Sun
July 1, 2014 11:13:31 AM
voltagetoe
July 1, 2014 12:20:30 PM
They really should make the interface modular - hyper-customizeable. Could even load own interface settings from a cloud to whatever computer. If a person wants to add an XP-style quick lauch, why does it have to be so fricking hard. Windows 8 was a nightmare to powerusers - power is the way to go - not ape-level feature reduction. And oh boy why did they name all the regular applications as "legacy apps" - incredibly obtrusive way of pushing so called "modern" apps to the foreground.
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Abaddon
July 1, 2014 11:43:33 PM
Hopefully they learn from their mistakes and add Windows Media Center back into the Home Edition product. I would have kept the version of Windows 8 which came with my machine if they didn't want $100+ dollars to upgrade it to a professional edition and then pay for a Media Center licence. For a product which had been part of the home edition for years and isn't a "Professional'" tool.
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back_by_demand
July 2, 2014 5:33:22 AM
ultameca
July 2, 2014 8:05:27 AM
lp231
July 2, 2014 10:32:10 AM
nikolajj
July 2, 2014 10:53:51 AM
MidnightDistort
July 3, 2014 7:18:58 AM
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So many months later and people are still bitching about the lack of a start button, while many many others understood that Win 8 is actually better than 7 and even started getting along with the new Start screen that you get to see only once in a while... instead of crying about it or giving negatives to Win 8 and it`s users how about give it a try. Funny thing is that at launch Win Xp was greeted with hate as well, it had higher hardware requirements, many users praised Win 98 SE back then like the holy grail... fast forward in time ... and everybody loved Xp... and contrary to popular belief even Vista ran well on the right hardware, but Win 7 had even lower system requirements thus putting Vista in the shadow as a fail OS. Same here with 8 but this time the complains are only for the Start menu/screen ...
I've been saying since W8 was first conceived that it was a bad idea (to get rid of the start menu) and yet your surprised that people are still complaining about the lack of a start menu?
There's other problems like the new way they do service packs. It was automatic before now they make you go to the store to get it. Windows 8 was a bad idea and still is, but in turn it got me on Linux.
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nikolajj
July 4, 2014 1:43:47 AM
MidnightDistort said:
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So many months later and people are still bitching about the lack of a start button, while many many others understood that Win 8 is actually better than 7 and even started getting along with the new Start screen that you get to see only once in a while... instead of crying about it or giving negatives to Win 8 and it`s users how about give it a try. Funny thing is that at launch Win Xp was greeted with hate as well, it had higher hardware requirements, many users praised Win 98 SE back then like the holy grail... fast forward in time ... and everybody loved Xp... and contrary to popular belief even Vista ran well on the right hardware, but Win 7 had even lower system requirements thus putting Vista in the shadow as a fail OS. Same here with 8 but this time the complains are only for the Start menu/screen ...
I've been saying since W8 was first conceived that it was a bad idea (to get rid of the start menu) and yet your surprised that people are still complaining about the lack of a start menu?
There's other problems like the new way they do service packs. It was automatic before now they make you go to the store to get it. Windows 8 was a bad idea and still is, but in turn it got me on Linux.
Win8.1 is more like a standalone OS, therefore in the store. Service packs is still delivered in WIndows Update.
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MidnightDistort
July 5, 2014 12:29:48 PM
DarkSable
July 6, 2014 11:14:49 AM
Jim90 said:
The picture of the start screen sums up everything that is wrong with W8/9/MS. All that's missing is the large fingerprints over the screen...a UI that has NO place in a desktop.Note: the major complaint is not about the engine underneath, but about the obvious touchscreen implications that MS has been forcing users to adopt. In the future, with a perfectly functioning substructure (voice activation etc., etc.) then yes. Definitely not now.
...do you not realize that it's a stock photo that Tom's has been using for every single article about windows since the windows 8 preview?
Seriously, that's not a picture of windows 9, you have no idea what it will look like.
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josejones
July 21, 2014 4:23:41 PM
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