Forget about Windows 9. Now it's Windows 10.

[Victor Cachat]

It's not bad hair.
The guy is wearing a rug.

[shotcaller6]

I'm not impressed yet...

[Mosin1944]

You forgot Windows 2000 and NT

They were geared more towards business than home use, I left them out for that reason, including just home PC versions. I tried 2000 at home once, it didn't support my flight sim joystick, otherwise it was OK.

[rjpsb1]

New windows?

[POLICESTATE]

Just wait until Windows goes to a SaaS only model.

[bg]

I think it might work but all the same, it looks an awfully lot like
an old ISP..

[Tommy C]

Windows XP Pro was the high water mark for Microsoft, IMO.

[CGT80]

I am glad they made the apps with title bars and with the ability to be moved and closed easily. It sucks to be "stuck" in an app. I am better than average with computer stuff, but it is still a pain to get out of the apps in win 8.1. I avoid them if at all possible. My computer has classic shell on it with the two column start bar. I never ran win 7 but I did not like it at all on my parents laptops.

The charms, and tiles suck. All of the flashy crap about 8.1 is just a pain. The OS runs great though and is very stable for me, the GUI is just crap. The win 10 start bar would be better without the live tiles. They are just a gimic that looks dumb and takes up more space. After using win 8.1, I don't want to see that app/tiles/charms crap at all, or again. I didn't even bother with a microsoft account or their apps. I have a google account for my Android phone and tablet but I wouldn't let them switch me to google+. They can shove that social crap back up their butts. They have made a mess of Youtube as well.

Hopefully they will listen to the consumers, with win 10, and they will give far more options for the user to customize. That is fine if they want all their flashy crap, but let me disable it and set my computer up for an efficient work space where I don't have things popping out at me when I don't want them. People often don't like change and it takes time to learn the new changes. Why fix something that isn't broken?

XP was my last OS, and it ran good for many years. 8.1 is more stable and some of it has a nice update with the looks, but they went overboard and forgot about the desktop users that don't want to feel like they are using a tablet. XP is no longer an option and 7 was already old and not impressive to me, so I modified 8.1 and I try to live with it. DOS was my first OS, and then windows 3.0 or 3.1. 98 was pretty good too. I think ME sucked, but it is hard to remember that far back and I didn't use vista. I used 2000 and NT a bit when I was doing networking classes, but it wasn't useful for my normal computing.

[rockblaster]

I'm running the windows 10 preview package on a laptop that I may take out back and shoot. I thought Vista was Microsofts Hindenburg until 8 came along. I build about 35-40 PC.s a year for clients and would rather lose a build than put windows 8 anything on one of my systems. Windows 10 will be very intrusive and may be worse than NSA as far as gathering personal data. My builds start at $ 1500 and go up from there. I will not build a business workstation that has anything but 7 on it, period! Microsoft has become extremely invasive as far as collecting your personal data!

[POLICESTATE]

At this rate, here's where I'm going once Windows 7 isn't worth running anymore:

[bg]

I'm running the windows 10 preview package on a laptop that I may take out back and shoot. I thought Vista was Microsofts Hindenburg until 8 came along. I build about 35-40 PC.s a year for clients and would rather lose a build than put windows 8 anything on one of my systems. Windows 10 will be very intrusive and may be worse than NSA as far as gathering personal data. My builds start at $ 1500 and go up from there. I will not build a business workstation that has anything but 7 on it, period! Microsoft has become extremely invasive as far as collecting your personal data!

I didn't know about MS Spying being included on W10 and as well don't
want ANYTHING snooping on me OR my business when using a pc.
It's no one's business if and it sounds more like WHEN MS,
begins collecting massive amounts of data on users who are duped
into W1O. THAT'S NO GOOD. Everything I have is running W7 Pro
or Ultimate. I do have one of the first version's of W8 Pro, sitting
in it's envelope collecting the proverbial "dust"..It'll stay there.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm staying away. I thought it might be
a better OS due to a more friendly UI, but not if it'd now MS's
version of a NEW RAT OS !

[Cowboy T]

At this rate, here's where I'm going once Windows 7 isn't worth running anymore:

You said it. UNIX-style OS's have been putting up the performance numbers for decades, and with the more recent versions of KDE (my preference) and GNOME (not my favorite, but a good one nonetheless), these systems have become very desktop-user-friendly over the years. I've converted several former MS Windows users over to Kubuntu on their home PC's, and while they were naturally a little concerned at first, after actually using it, they haven't bothered to look back.

For this reason, I don't see any point other than certain "gamerz" to run Microsoft Windows at home anymore. That actually includes Windows 7. And it most definitely includes Windows 8/9/10/WhateverElseComesAfter.