Ah fair, and true. I think if it has changed the upgrade would be cheap (very cheap) making it free would be good for the surface uptake and for the windows store and strengthen the sales of windows tablets/surface. Charging to much for Windows 9 i don't think will go down so well they really want people upgrading from Windows 7 so they can sell them rubbish from the store and make a profit. Charging i feel at least for surface users would just make people think more about buying a surface over a different tablet. At least with Android and iOS upgrades would be free, that's a good selling point. It not only attracts customers but developers. Charging for Windows updates on tablets at least i think would backfire and same for the windows store. It's not even like Windows 9 brings many features to warrant it as a paid upgrade. The start menu what windows 8 and 8.1 should have had and the virtual desktops is about it.
You are correct. I would rather go with the one in Windows 9 Technical Preview build 9834 still. To get the utilities and the power button is as simple as reading ABC. Those who disagree with Windows 8 might likely do the same because of complacency. All that is needed is to right-click on the Start menu. That makes sense as long as they are still required to do that in the one you claimed to be well polished(the one that embraces the classic Windows). In comparison, I see the the Windows 9 Start menu to be more presentable - it gives people both options to either use the power button at the top of the list or right-click Start menu to make use of it among utilities on the list. Instead of having the classic icons there is metro tiles displayed on the right-hand side of it and it continues to spread as it is populated with metro tiles to give that modern UI feelings at the desktop environment. I think there is more to it than meet the eyes in that regard.
That is a good idea. I would love it to be Windows 9 themes supposedly doing that than providing a separate feature for it.
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It's the first time in a decade that we got "screenshot leaks" only even 2 weeks before the DP launch! Let's hope Windows 9 is worth waiting for
... well most of the leakers have been Russian. I'm not gonna start that whole thing again, but I will say that it's not really worth it to leak something like this. We'll get it eventually and it's not the kind of project that will work out of the box without some patching support on MS's end.