Windows 9

[Vince53]

Gasp! It took me three days, but I've installed the Windows 8 beta onto a virtual machine. The Metro interface looks sharp all right...for about three seconds. Then it's nothing but large icons. Yes, you can switch to a traditional desktop, but I can't figure out how to go back without shutting it down.

Internet Explorer 10 is impressive. And I realize that the beta is incomplete. But essentially, it looks like Windows 7 with a more complicated set-up.

 

[FuturDreamz]

Gasp! It took me three days, but I've installed the Windows 8 beta onto a virtual machine. The Metro interface looks sharp all right...for about three seconds. Then it's nothing but large icons. Yes, you can switch to a traditional desktop, but I can't figure out how to go back without shutting it down.

Internet Explorer 10 is impressive. And I realize that the beta is incomplete. But essentially, it looks like Windows 7 with a more complicated set-up.

hot corners. top left is previus app, bottom left is start menu, start at one of those corners and slide to middle left for last six applications..

oh, and to close an app, just grab the VERY top of the window and drag it all the way down. closing the desktop app doesn't seem to close desktop applications though.

 

[computertech19]

I'm hating the day Win 8 hits all the pc's at my work and I have to do work on them. People are going to be like what the H*ll is this? How do I use this? ug.

 

[Vince53]

I'm hating the day Win 8 hits all the pc's at my work and I have to do work on them. People are going to be like what the H*ll is this? How do I use this? ug.

It's not that bad. I'm using the 8 Preview version right now, and it is easy to switch to a classical desktop. Then it is similar to Windows 7.

 

[bigmck]

Personal, very subjective opinion, and nothing more: This thread must be the most pointless and useless thread I have ever seen on any tech forums.

Kari

I have to disagree. There are other threads just a pointless as this one.

 

[Vince53]

I'm going to make a prediction: Windows 9 will have the Metro interface. After working with it for a couple of days, I'm getting used to it. MS might have realized that there would be an unpopular learning curve, so they released the pre-beta version of 8 so people could get over their hostility to the Metro desktop. But it's really not that bad.

 

[Vince53]

I'm going to make another prediction.


I predict that Win 9 WILL have mouse capability, but it will be the last Windows OS to do so. Touchscreens are the wave of the future, and the mouse will be going the way of the floppy drive.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

I will chime in and make another prediction.
" I won't upgrade from Windows 7 to this piece of garbage."
THW

 

[computertech19]

^ I agree. I'm telling people get a pc with 7 now or you will regret it when 8 is here.

 

[bigmck]

^ I agree. I'm telling people get a pc with 7 now or you will regret it when 8 is here.

I did just the reverse around 2000. I was computer hunting and the ones I saw all had Windows ME. I just held back long enough until XP was released then I bought.

 

[Vince53]

It was announced today that MS is going to start absorbing a company called Hadoop (No, it isn't a joke) into their cloud system. Hadoop provides services for companies such as Twitter that require massive volumes of bytes for their cloud services. In other words, MS expects their cloud services to be extremely successful.

You're already using the cloud if you're using Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, or Wikipedia. You download a program to get you on, but the program itself is not on your computer. The company can update any time they want, without your permission. This gives them better security. Most cloud services are free, but MS is looking forward to selling theirs.

Windows 8 will have cloud connections. Expect Windows 9 to have a lot more.

 

[FuturDreamz]

Yeahh I've deen Microsoft's cloud. I checked out office live, and it had a scheduled one-hour shutdown in a few moments. Not bein able to access or work on your documents at all when you need them most is not going to fly.

 

[Vince53]

MS has filed a patent for a system that will boot up your computer from the cloud. No, I don't believe that Win 9 will include that. And I doubt that we'll be using computers that are 100% cloud. But I am certain that cloud computing, which is already here, will steadily grow in importance.

I can't help thinking that this would make itmore difficult for a virus to keep you from booting up your computer.

Beyond Windows 8: Patent Hints To A Future Streaming OS | ConceivablyTech

 

[FuturDreamz]

Depending on how this works, this would be great for enterprise use. The computers all boot from a central image with all neccisary software preinstalled, and local storage is only for files (if it isn't eliminated).

I can imagine systems with no hard drives, just the user's USB stick and 8-16 gb of ram.

In fact, providing lag is minimal, this would make perfect portable computers. Just go to the nearest kiosk and login, and you're on your own computer with all of your own files, programs, and custimizations.

 

[Vince53]

I can imagine systems with no hard drives, just the user's USB stick and 8-16 gb of ram.

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I taught high school computer science on the TI 99, which had no hard drive. Storage? An ordinary cassette tape player.

 

[Vince53]

It's not too funny, but here is the first official Windows 9 April Fool's joke:

Breaking News from Redmond: Windows 9 will be Unix !!
Posted by: Panopticon
[SIZE=-1] Date: April 01, 2012 10:17AM [/SIZE]Redmond, WA
Home / Technology / Breaking Stories
Windows 8 Scrapped: Microsoft "switches" to Unix
By Ritchie Thompson Kernighan * April 01, 2012, 9:00am PDT
Summary: CEO Steve Ballmer orders a complete change, Engineers will work 24/7 to transform Windows and its applications to Unix.

In a surprise move last night, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ordered an immediate halt to all work on Windows 8 and related applications. He then declared the new Windows 9 must be a Unix compliant OS and ready for release by September 31, 2012. Calls to Bill Gates have gone unanswered and senior Microsoft employees have refused to comment... © Associated Press

Press Release from Microsoft

 

[Vince53]

Here's a new one. One tech writer predicts that Windows 9 will have a 32 bit version. Although no computer manufacturer anywhere in the world is manufacturing 32-bit hardware, the writer predicts that phones and tablets using 32 bits will still be around when 9 comes out.

MS has already announced that 9 will not support 32 bit, and since Win 7 & 8 support 32 bit, I doubt that MS will go out of its way for a small number of devices owned by people who generally can't afford to upgrade.

 

[Vince53]

An intelligent post on the Windows 8 forums. A writer predicts that the goal of MS is to have us all dependent on buying their apps in order to make our computers do what we want. He predicts that the Metro interface is only the start, and that new Windows OS's will be progressively more dependent n Metro.

 

[Vince53]

This just in! Some bright person figured out that MS support for Windows XP will end before Windows 9 is released. That means that you will not be able to buy a version of 9 that has XP installed in a virtual machine. One version of Windows 7 has that.

But I wonder: since 9 will not support 32-bit programs, will they make an edition that includes a sandboxed 32 bit version of Windows 8? Or will they sell it as an app?

 

[FuturDreamz]

This just in! Some bright person figured out that MS support for Windows XP will end before Windows 9 is released. That means that you will not be able to buy a version of 9 that has XP installed in a virtual machine. One version of Windows 7 has that.

But I wonder: since 9 will not support 32-bit programs, will they make an edition that includes a sandboxed 32 bit version of Windows 8? Or will they sell it as an app?

I'd be surprised if it dropped Windows on Windows (64) support.

It probably run a sandboxed version of Windows 7, instead of 8.