Windows 10: Microsoft Scraps Windows 8 Major Updates. Bets The Farm On Windows 9

People complaining about the W7 Betas (they did/do exist) didn't seem to hurt W7's market performance.

There are quite a few people complaining about W7 on this blog, a few weeks after the retail version was released:
http://hackadelic.com/is-windows-xp-better-than-windows-7-a-user’s-perspective

Here is Wikipedia's list of removed features:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...d_in_Windows_8

Most of those are a non-issue to me personally.

 

Agreed. All a non issue to me also. Most of those dropped have been replaced, by necessity, by methods more appropriate to the new interface.
I would say,imo, that the Windows 7 beta did not harm the market, as it was viewed as a welcome relief from Vista, for right or wrong. Vista was a major change in interface and use, from XP, and, as such, was a useful interlude for users to get accustomed to the almost identical Windows 7 - helped a lot in a rather distorted and unintended way.

 

Thank you, that is very useful.

I personally use/used at least a 1/3 of the items removed, if not more. But I run networks with many computers and devices attached, and help maintain a lot of peoples systems. Every little tool is helpful, so Windows 8 was not an improvement in my life, and made it more costly and difficult to maintain.

 

By everything I heard up to now, this update should not even have any name or number, it's no more than a regular monthly set of updates.

 

Thanks for that link:
Here is some more updates coming tomorrow.

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/894199

The individual KB's are not available as of yet.

Jim :win:

 

I am positive the fact that M$ have stopped fooling around with 8.1 and decided it is done and buried that they will give 8 and 8.1 users a free upgrade path to Windows 9. It may not be an upgrade install and may need work on the users part but I can see no other choice for M$ after the OS that was very much unloved. Imagine how many licence cards and DVD packs that will end up in the landfill as no one wants them.

 

"You got to know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em"
The Gambler.

 

I will gladly accept all Windows 8 or 8.1 license keys anyone doesn't want *Smile

 

Indianatone said: ?
I am positive the fact that M$ have stopped fooling around with 8.1 and decided it is done and buried that they will give 8 and 8.1 users a free upgrade path to Windows 9. It may not be an upgrade install and may need work on the users part but I can see no other choice for M$ after the OS that was very much unloved. Imagine how many licence cards and DVD packs that will end up in the landfill as no one wants them.

It sounds as if what I'm hearing that free upgrade path rumours will not materialize.
(PS - is there a reason I am unable to "quote" a previous poster?)

 

I am able to do it using the Reply option at the bottom of the post I want to quote.

Has your Reply option vanished?

 

I doubt anyone can say for certain at this point. All we have are lots of rumors and until MS actually says what their intentions are everything is just speculating.

I do think that MS will try to offer a heavily discounted price for early adapters of Win9.
Other than that.. I have no clue what they plan on doing. OH yes,, we should see IE12 in Win9.

 

I think this is the most likely scenario. Just like the did when Windows 8 first came out.

 

It would save them dumping stuff in landfills if 8.x and Nine both have the same keys? So an 8 key could be used to upgrade to Nine.

 

Where are you getting that from?? No way would MS use the same key for Win8.x and Win9.

 

I was just contemplating. That is what the forum is for, throwing ideas our there. There is no reason why they could not do that, they did it with 8.1 which at 3 GB Download was a new OS. If they decided to give 9 away to 8 users that is.If they don't a lot of 8 users will feel they have been robbed.