They need to merge the traditional Desktop with the Metro screen, best of both worlds (essentially glorified shortcuts) but that's what Windows 8 is anyway.

They shouldn't rush Win 9, IMVHO, as people still preferring Win 7 and refusing Win 8 could stick to 7 even longer, if 9 doesn't satisfy them significantly more than 8, and this could end up in a scenario even worse, for MS, than the XP-Vista transition, as the refusal would affect more than one version.

I doubt it.

I wouldn't be very surprised considering they tried it with the Xbox One. The PC market is different and I'm sure they know it. That said, if Windows 10 is cloud-based, I'll stick to older OS's as long as I can and when I finally can't anymore, I'll just switch to Linux. The only thing keeping me away from Linux is gaming, and if MS decides to take the cloud route, I'll have a huge reason to get away from Windows, games or not.

So they follow the same pattern, Windows 9 probably who knows will be good but then Windows 10 will suck.

Too soon?

Microsoft seem to come out with a good OS, then make a hash of the next one. Then they spend all that time fixing issues and complaints for their upcoming OS and its great again. Rinse and repeat.

Probably fake. Too zune!

I like windows 98, xp and windows 7. Operated windows 8 in my friends laptop. It was horrible.

XP and win 7 are my favourites too. Win 8 isn't too horrible on a laptop after you tame it, this is my metro screen after removing all the fluff.


Never use it. Windows key + X shortcut is my friend. And I added this shortcut "C:Windowsexplorer.exe Shell:AppsFolder" on the desktop to replace the missing functionality from the start button. Still it's missing a proper task bar, holding alt-tab while tab-tab-tabbing or mousing over to the right app with a track pad is annoying. Why do some things appear on the task bar and others don't. Hopefully 8.1 will fix the taskbar. Btw you don't want to run it on a laptop with less then 8gb ram, it has 3gb is use after startup. (compared to xp only occupying 200mb)

A cloud based OS sounds like an oxymoron. Isn't an OS supposed to manage your local hardware so you can more easily run software on it. What does the cloud have to do with that.