Windows... 10?!?

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While the upgrade from 8 to 8.1 didn't brick my laptop, it did make my paid programs forget that I had paid for and activated them, and ruined my LAME codec for VirtualDub, and while I've been trying on and off for months trying to reinstall that, it would seem there are no instructions at all on the web for how to install it on anything newer than Windows 7.

Regardless, I've got some serious issues with 8.1 (and wish my laptop came with 7 instead) but I'll endure. I feel that if I ever update my OS on this computer again I'll definitely have a lot of program problems again.
 
MatskiMonk
Windows 3.11 will forever hold a place in my heart. (I went 3.11, 98 + ME upgrade, XP, 7.. and I'm aiming to be on 7 for a good while yet)
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I had 3.1 (which came even before 3.11) and I have such fond memories of it. First used it on a monochrome screen and I remember it had some weird recipe book thing showing you how you could use a computer to make notes.
 
Robin.
I had 3.1 (which came even before 3.11) and I have such fond memories of it. First used it on a monochrome screen and I remember it had some weird recipe book thing showing you how you could use a computer to make notes.
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Nice.

Our first was a Packard Bell 'Executive' DX2/66mHz, came with DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11 WFWG, and Packard Bell Navigator (which never caught on!) In the days when an operating system came on countless floppies and was supplied with a 2" thick manual.
 
Chameleon9000
This made me laugh so hard for some reason.
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Every error had to have some sort of funfair to it.

What is more sad is I remember the location for that sound clip back in the days of DOS.

I dont like the one in Windows 7(C:\Windows\Media\Tada.wav)

Sounds too electric keyboardish.
 
I bought a pair of Dell 25 MHz 386's a while back, which came with DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0. Never used Win3.0/Win3.10/WfW3.11 much. Somewhere along the line I installed Win95, still didn't use it much; was still using mostly DOS 6.2x and starting to dabble with something called linux. Today I have a Win7 machine, which I bought to replace my WinXP box when it seemed new machines would no longer be available with Win7; I wanted no parts of Win8. From the looks of things so far, Win9 appears to be offering more headaches than features I'd actually want. Meanwhile I do 90% of my stuff on my linux boxen.
 
We still know nothing about Win9.

It is still rumor and speculation.

I will download VMware Player and test windows 9, as i have been testing Windows based betas since early windows longhorn.
 
MatskiMonk
Nice.

Our first was a Packard Bell 'Executive' DX2/66mHz, came with DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11 WFWG, and Packard Bell Navigator (which never caught on!) In the days when an operating system came on countless floppies and was supplied with a 2" thick manual.
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My families first machine was actually an AST laptop in the late 80's, then we got a desktop which used a 5 inch floppy drive. Just MS Word for 3.1 came on like 14 disks!
 
Grayfox
Well so far MS has managed to keep up with their expected good bad cycle.

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I always found this funny. One look at the "apps" and metro was all I needed to not give 8 a second glance. I figure windows 9 will the be the "good one" again, simply because they must know why so many people picked 7 even with 8 being out. I hope they stop trying to be Apple, go back to focusing on making it better for people that work ( earn a living ) on and with them.
 
Lion-Face
I have no issue with Windows 8, I upgraded my desktop and laptop to windows 8 shortly after it came out. Very easy to use, and neither device has a touch screen. I don't do a lot of work with my computers, and the programs I run run in desktop mode, so it works in such a similar fashion to the older windows, except with the windows key acting as a quick shortcut between programs. I find it fast and fluid.

Windows 9 will be interesting to see how it unfolds. There is mention of the charms bar being removed, which I hope there isn't, or if it is, there is a logical replacement for it. I'm not really looking forward to the return of the start menu of old, but I'm open to seeing how windows 9 changes things and judging it then. Can't say I've had any issue with any of the Windows OS's in a big way.
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The problem with Windows 8 is they changed and/or removed stuff that long term Windows user basically considered part of their primal instict.

No start button, hidden buttons on the right side, desktop vs. metro huge mess, saving a file in a particular folder is unecessarly more time consuming, things like that...
 
HKS racer
The problem with Windows 8 is they changed and/or removed stuff that long term Windows user basically considered part of their primal instict.

No start button, hidden buttons on the right side, desktop vs. metro huge mess, saving a file in a particular folder is unecessarly more time consuming, things like that...
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When they released XP they removed some useful icons from the desktop

My Computer
My Documents
Network

But this didn't really matter since the start menu was there you could access them in little time.

But when they removed the start menu they didn't bother to add these icons back by default which is stupid.
 
A video supposedly showing Windows 9's start menu in action has been leaked by a German tech site.

 
Considering pretty much the sole use of my desktop PC running Windows 8.1 is opening up Assetto Corsa (and Project Cars later on) then I don't see and reason to update to Windows 9 as I find the current start screen more than capable, in fact, I quite like it :)
 
Grayfox
They are still obsessed with the stupid "apps" I see.
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The Windows App Store is a train wreck, it's like they have abandoned it. Apart from the pre-installed apps which are great third party apps are 90% fake or imitations of real companies. Those which are genuine are mostly never updated beyond the initial creation and bugs are not fixed. They need to merge the Windows Phone store ASAP.

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Not one of those is real :ouch:

Punknoodle
I find the current start screen more than capable, in fact, I quite like it :)
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I like it to, they just need to make more app's like the stock ones... the news one is excellent.
 
My problem with Windows 8/8.1 WP 8 etc.. is that those live tiles take up soooo much real estate. Even for touch screens many of those boxes are very excessive. I hated my Nokia Lumia before upgrading to WP 8.1 with the introduction of smaller icons - it's practically the only reason I kept myself from trashing it, and I'm glad I didn't.

Before:

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After update:

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@terminator363 That looks massively confusing and not user-friendly at all even with the smaller icons. I consider myself a bit of an MS fanboy but I'm glad to have an iPhone instead.
 
Xilor
@terminator363 That looks massively confusing and not user-friendly at all even with the smaller icons. I consider myself a bit of an MS fanboy but I'm glad to have an iPhone instead.
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Well it's also about how you arrange your tiles. Personally mine are arranged in a weird way because I know where to find them as I arranged them to my liking but you can have an extremely simple layout too. What I was trying to show with those pictures is that small tile size equates to icons on android/iOS. There is no need for massive banner-like tiles.

Edit: the "before" pic was not a good example, what I meant to show was this:

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The phone tile? Really?
 
The new start menu is... not what I expected? But at the same time, I kinda like it. After all, a start menu is better than no start menu. :P

I'm interested to see what else MS is bringing to the table with Windows 9. I am expecting a Windows 7-esque release - it just being a bug fixed Windows 8 which I would happily buy. If MS lay down more innovations that benefit the end user then that would be awesome too. But honestly I'm expecting the former.
 
My local Microsoft exec. says that the Windows 9 will has the same install procedure as the Windows 8.1. Free via MS Store but for Windows 8/8.1 only.

Older than that and you must buy the W9 fully.
 
I'd heard rumors that it would also be available free or heavily discounted to XP users in a final effort to get users off that system. Guess not.
 
What disappoints me about Windows 8, 8.1 and probably 9 is the desktop icons. Many of the normal system icons you see in folders, control panel in menu's etc were carried over from 7 and some even from XP. As a result you have a mish mash of icons some of which are metro inspired and some which look really dated.

It just screams lazy to me, it makes the whole look of the system disjointed and half done. Yes they can keep the locations and functions of these icons the same, I just which the art department came up with a whole new icons set for each new version of windows.

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I don't want to see these for another 10 years! They should all be redone. Much like how Apple changed all their iOS icons.
 
Well, might as well rename the thread now. Also, it seems to have been a pattern that every other version of Windows was bad/good. So now they skipped straight over the good one and went to another bad one.
 

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