Microsoft: Windows 8 sucks; Windows 9 has been scrapped; Hail Windows 10

Fretwired

Microsoft had decided to scrap Windows 9 ... confused? It was never launched as it was pants. All hail Windows 10. Anyone got Apple's telephone number .... :-)



Windows 12 is out in January .. :-)

TheMarlin

I have no problem with Windows 8.1.  Don't see what the fuss is all about.

Marlin

mudslide73

8.1 is brill. There I said it - I was moaning about it but now I love it. Now RSAT works I'm sold.

guitargeek62

I have no problem with Windows 8 or 8.1; I used 8 for one day, got bored, and went back to my Mac.

digitalscream

Well, the tradition from Microsoft is good-version -> bad-version -> good-version -> bad-version -> etc. I guess they decided it was too much effort to put out a good version this time, so they just skipped it and went to the next half-baked OS attempt.

VimFuego

I don't care what the name of the captive demon is, just so long as the eldritch device works.

Phil_aka_Pip

Linux

sweepy

guitargeek62 said:

I have no problem with Windows 8 or 8.1; I used 8 for one day, got bored, and went back to my Mac.

Damn right, although I imagine I'll have to suffer it on my Son's machines

Hertz32

vista, 8 and 8.1 converted me to Chromebooks, Linux and MacOS.
Hopefully 9 will be optimised to run on slightly lesser hardware, so I can finally scrape vista off the bottom of my old desktop's shoe and make it usable once more. I'm signing up for the prerelease Win9 so I can report back to yall That, and I am a cheapskate who won't want to fork out for a copy when it becomes available. 

Fretwired

Hertz32 said:

vista, 8 and 8.1 converted me to Chromebooks, Linux and MacOS.
Hopefully 9 will be optimised to run on slightly lesser hardware, so I can finally scrape vista off the bottom of my old desktop's shoe and make it usable once more. I'm signing up for the prerelease Win9 so I can report back to yall That, and I am a cheapskate who won't want to fork out for a copy when it becomes available. 

@Hertz32 .. bad news .. Windows 9 was still born ... I bet the developers have been watching Game of thrones ...

Hertz32

Win10 I mean! I'm losing track of all these OS names/numbers 

holnrew

Hertz32;366535" said:

Win10 I mean! I'm losing track of all these OS names/numbers 

How many cats have apple used now?

mudslide73

We're up to Snow Moggy now I think.

thermionic

Apple are done with the cats, we're on to beaches and national parks now. Get with it!

DulcetJones

I've been considering upgrading my Commodore 64

Fretwired

DulcetJones said:

I've been considering upgrading my Commodore 64

Try an Admiral128 ..

mudslide73

thermionic said:

Apple are done with the cats, we're on to beaches and national parks now. Get with it!

You're right - we're on Yosemite now - better than Kit Kat I suppose.

xmrchi

Still Mavericks at the mo innit??when does Yosemite come out?

theres always bloomin person who has to pipe up and say Linux !!  

No No NO I dont want to have to dev my own drivers to make my hardware work, ...want to game on a Linux machine??? no chance 

) )

Karlos

digitalscream

mrchi said:

Still Mavericks at the mo innit??when does Yosemite come out?

theres always bloomin person who has to pipe up and say Linux !!  

No No NO I dont want to have to dev my own drivers to make my hardware work, ...want to game on a Linux machine??? no chance 

) )

Eh? In the last 6 years, I've not once had to write my own drivers to make any hardware work. In fact, I haven't even had to install a driver; it's all been taken care of for me. Unlike, for example, Windows.

Also...gaming is perfectly do-able on Linux. Can you say "Steam"?

xmrchi

@digitalscream, now now don't get so touchy, surely you can see the jest in the post??