No Win 9, straight to Win 10.

MrBill · 2014/09/30

Microsoft on Tuesday gave its first detailed look at the next major update to Windows, which it has decided to call Windows 10.

http://preview.msn.com/en-us/money/...ows-9-heads-straight-to-windows-10/ar-BB6CjGe

ThomasJK · 2014/09/30

Strange, MS is abandoning that consistent practice of numbering it's OS's. Does number 8 give so much bad vibes, that they had to skip the next number, and name the new one 10? How about 11 then, wouldn't that be even better?
Or MS could have done the same thing, as after Win 3.11 -> Win 95, and call the next OS Windows 2015.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29431412
Version 10 should be released before the end of 2015, and it has the Start-menu again.

retiredlearner · 2014/09/30

Have a read here: History of Microsoft Windows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows
They miss the addition of W8.1 but it covers the main history. I believe Windows 95 was supposed to be released in 1995 but didn't make the year. After 2000 and ME there does not appear to be any set series year/OS build. Neil.
MrBill, this will be of interest:
How much will Windows 10 Cost?

According to Indonesian news site Detik.com, which was first spotted by BGR, Andreas Diantoro, the president of Microsoft Indonesia, has announced that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for all Windows 8 users.

READ: Microsoft might make Windows 10 upgrade free

Russian collective/leakers WZOR also claimed earlier this year that Microsoft is considering not charging for Windows 10.

ZDNet however, which often reports accurate Microsoft rumours, has heard the opposite: different SKUs of Windows will be offered at different prices to OEMs and consumers, and that the desktop version of Windows 10 will definitely cost something.

If that's the case then, there has been no word yet on pricing specifics.

rsinfo · 2014/10/01

Hope the rumors to offer Win 9 or 10 or Threshold or whatever free to Win 8 suckers is true.

retiredlearner · 2014/10/01

What's wrong with W8.1? I've got a Notebook and 2 Tower units running W8.1 very successfully. Very fast and very secure.
Start8 gives me the Start Menu and it's sweet as. Neil.

Across desktop PCs as a whole, only 13.4% currently run Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, according to research firm NetMarketshare.

By contrast, it says 51.2% are powered by Windows 7 and 23.9% by Windows XP, a version that is no longer supported by Microsoft.

Mr Johnson said the reintroduction of the Start Menu should help Windows 10 fare better.

MrBill · 2014/10/01

Got to agree with you. I liked 8 and now 8.1. No problems with it what so ever.

rsinfo · 2014/10/01

I think almost nothing except Start Menu.

retiredlearner · 2014/10/01

If you need a Start Menu - there are plenty of options available - both Free and Purchase type. I use Start8 which costs $4.95.
I don't see a problem installing either Classic Shell (Free) or Start8 as this makes it look like W7 start menu. Neil.

ThomasJK · 2014/10/01

retiredlearner wrote:
"Have a read here: History of Microsoft Windows, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows... "

MS has changed the way of naming it's OS's several times. First they had consecutive numbers, Win 1, 2.xx, 3.xx. Windows 95 was also expected to be called Win 4. Its release was delayed several times. It was released in August of 1995. Then there were several year/OS build, (98, 2000, Me). Then they decided to have those fancy names, (xp, Vista). Then back to the consecutive numbers-method (7, 8.xx). Feels just funny, that now they will call the next one 10. As if they want to emphasise, that it will be so much better/different, than the previous one, which has been critized so much.

SpywareDr · 2014/10/02

"retiredlearner said: ↑

What's wrong with W8.1?
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Cuz it's a flop?

News.Investors.com > Windows 8 usage falls to lowest level in five months

Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 8 took an embarrassing tumble in terms of usage in September, falling to its lowest level in five months.

The nearly 2-year-old PC operating system fell to 12.3% market share last month, from 13.4% in August, based on a study of PCs accessing the Internet by Net Applications. It was the second time this year that Windows 8 usage has dropped on a month-to-month basis, not a good sign for adoption of the oft-criticized operating system.

Windows 8 is a distant third in usage behind the 4-year-old Windows 7 and 12-year-old Windows XP, which have 52.7% and 23.9% of the market, respectively. Windows 8 was released in October 2012.

Microsoft still controls 92% of the PC market, Net Applications reported Wednesday. Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) Mac OS X holds 6.4% of the market, while Linux PCs have the remaining 1.6%.
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SpywareDr · 2014/10/02

ExtremeTech > Windows 10: Familiarity breeds contempt

Windows 10 is a completely unabashed and deeply apologetic love letter to Windows 7 — and to everyone who used and loved Windows 7, too. Windows 10 — at least what we’ve seen so far — is what the people have been asking for since it became clear that Microsoft really was doubling down on the Frankenstinan trainwreck of Windows 8.

Windows 10, despite the utterly weird version number (more on that later), is essentially an upgraded version of Windows 7. It’ll be the best version of Windows 7 there ever was. There are even some tweaks on the enterprise side of things, too, to sweeten the deal for IT admin types. It’s everything Windows 8 should’ve been, and more! I mean, seriously, one of the major features that Microsoft showed off during the unveil of Windows 10 was an updated version of Command Prompt.

Unless Microsoft does something weird (which is quite possible), I’m sure Windows 10 will make a fine upgrade from Windows 7 and will go on to rule the slowly dwindling Desktop Empire until it finally evaporates under the red-hot advance of smartphones, tablets, and the cloud. The bean counters at Microsoft, who get their billions of beans from sales of Windows, Office, and server tools, will be happy. Enterprise customers, who prefer things to slowly change over a number of years rather than boom, here’s a new Metro interface, will like Windows 10's return to the status quo. Consumers, who have been using Windows with a mouse and keyboard for up to 25 years, will like how Windows 10 looks kinda new but is ultimately very familiar.
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With what we’ve seen of Windows 10 so far, Microsoft is admitting that it went too far in completely alienating some 1.5 billion existing mouse-and-keyboard Windows users — and Windows 10 will go a long way to fixing all that.
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If Windows 10 can actually pull it it off — if Microsoft can transition billions of phones, PCs, game consoles, and software developers over to Windows 10 — then the next few years would be a renaissance indeed. That’s a big if, though, and it relies on those 1.5 billion mouse-and-keyboard users actually embracing the new live tile portion of the Start menu and using windowed Metro apps on the Desktop.

For now, Microsoft has really only shown us that Windows 10 will be a decent upgrade over Windows 7. The next bit — proving that Microsoft and Windows 10 can be entrusted with running everything from our smartphones to our televisions to our PCs to our servers — will be a lot harder. Good luck, Microsoft.
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rsinfo · 2014/10/03

Windows 8.x Marketshare Fell During September, Windows 7 Still King

IvanH · 2014/10/04

Microsoft really wants to kill Windows 7, which is not contributing new revenue.

Windows 8s are certified dead.

Windows 9 will not be a better baby than 7 or 8. Abortion was approved.

Windows 10 gives a clean message to Apple Mac users. It resembles Mac OS X very much. But Windows 10 can't be Windows X.

Windows 10 gives a look-alike of OS X but can run on much cheaper notebooks than MacBook Air. Hopefully, it may stop refugees migrating from Windows to Mac. However, many friends have determined and set their budget aside for 2015 for a Mac, not thinking backward for another Windows based machine. (Unless a free-of-charge Windows 10 Virtual Machine and a free hypervisor are bundled on a MacBook Air.)

SpywareDr · 2014/10/05

Windows will run on $99 tablets ... and that price includes Windows.

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