that windows 9 thing..it's not

[SoM]

it's windows 10

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[scared?]

It looks like windows 7 again... ROFL?...

[PhoeniX]

The new start menu with tiles is exactly what they should have done in Windows 8.. or 8.1.

[seremtan]

Windows X

gotta be

[Whiskey 7]

it's windows 10

live blog in progress

I know I have been away on holidays but did I miss Windows 9 somehow

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[Don Carlos]

The new start menu with tiles is exactly what they should have done in Windows 8.. or 8.1.

Yarp

[Pext]

According to folk lore, every second version of windows is good.

So... Windows XP was good; Windows Vista was bad; Windows 7 was good; Windows 8 was bad.

Let's skip Windows 9.

[Captain]

There is no Windows 9, genius.

[plained]

According to folk lore, every second version of windows is good.

So... Windows XP was good; Windows Vista was bad; Windows 7 was good; Windows 8 was bad.

Let's skip Windows 9.

haha yea ey

so it will have a start menu?

[ALMighty]

They should have made it go to 11.

[Transient]

There is no Windows 9, genius.

That's his point. He was saying it sarcastically.

They should have stuck with 9 because it was the "good" version, but now they're going right to another shitty version of Windows.

[Transient]

They should have made it go to 11.

Microsoft has been playing catch up for so long now, I don't think they'd even know where to start with Windows 11.

[MKJ]

They should have made it go to 11.

Microsoft has been playing catch up for so long now, I don't think they'd even know where to start with Windows 11.

Pretty sure he was referring to Spinal Tap.

[LawL]

Not sure though.

[Transient]

Pretty sure you're right.

[Pext]

There is no Windows 9, genius.

[seremtan]

They should have made it go to 11.

codename: Marshall amp

[Lieutenant Dan]

I dunno, I never really had a hard time adjusting to Windows 8, and I have it installed on two desktops without touchscreen support

[Eraser]

I was forced to use Win8.1 on my work laptop. I'm glad it's 8.1 because I can boot directly to desktop, but I got used to everything pretty quickly.

That's not to say the Metro interface is a huge design flaw for desktop systems. I don't use any Metro apps and I only use the start screen to type in (part of) the name of an app and hit enter to start it. I never click any tile on the start screen.

So yeah, it's workanle, not even all that annoying, but it's clear MS invested a lot of time in developing an interface that's completely superfluous.

[Eraser]

I just hope MS finally got some sense in their head about that awful environment variables dialog, which has been too small and unresizable ever since win95 or so.

[scared?]

Does anyone(whose not a moron)even use win 8 without start 8?...

[SoM]

only morons use start8

real men use classic shell

[seremtan]

real men don't get the latest thing just because everyone else is, and are still using 7

[Transient]

Windows 7 works just fine for me, no need to upgrade to a buggy POS. In fact, I think 7 has been my best experience with a Windows OS so far. I can actually get my printer to work on the network!

[scared?]

real men don't get the latest thing just because everyone else is, and are still using 7

Real men get the latest thing for free becuz they are so well connected and non poor...