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I don't know what the hurry is. Vista PCs seemed to hang on the shelves forever at Best Buy. I kept putting off buying waiting for the SP1 preload. Finally I giae up and bought one. Like a month later SP1 comes out and won't go on the thing. I buy a 64 bit Vista SP1 PC. Windows 7 comes out. Fine. I like the Taskbar progressbar thingy, jump lists etc. So before even an SP2 they dump it for W8. Same deal again. One service pack and out.
It seems like a lot of churning, except for the fact the looks and features decline instead of improve. The technical improvement I see is GPT. Seems like they could have stuck that onto W7 SP2 if they wanted. But then no up front cash from current users.
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What would be really great is if they put back Aero Glass and 80% of what they took out of 7 and 8..
Al'a ... List of features removed in Windows 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and List of features removed in Windows 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
oh, and did I mention Aero glass?
Sadly though, M$ doesn't generally suffer from "coming to their senses"...
They need to release two versions.
Windows 9 Desktop and Windows 9 Touch
Until this happens, anything else will be crap.