Well if Windows 9 doesn't have a proper Start Menu and Windowed Apps.. Windows 7 will be the last Windows version that i will ever use. I still don't get it that Microsft can't understand that we don't want fullscreen apps on a 27" or higher screen. It's like downgrading back to Windows 1.. And it's not "modern" at all.. I really don't want to hate. I understand that universal apps is something that everyone wants.. But simulate a Touch-Based app on a Desktop-PC that we traditionally use with a keyboard and mouse.. It just doesn't work.. The only company who didn't failed with this concept is Apple.. Well okay.. I still have hopes for Windows 9..
@Faikee Microsoft release Windows 8.1 Update 2 or Windows 8.2 before Windows Update on MSDN ? No new features added on Windows 8.1 Update 2 or Windows 8.2 ?
We all do. After it is released and we have used it for a while we can praise it or b!tch and moan all we want. There will be people doing both. In the meantime, sit back, relax, have some beer, pizza, and enjoy the wait..... ETA - there is nothing on new MSDN
If you are talking about the Metro Start-up, I think there is good use of those apps for desktop users as you are trying to deny here. Instead of downloading and installing applications to your desktop you can as well do that from the Metro store standpoint. It adds this feeling of modern user's interface that the old desktop environment we are familiar with doesn't have. The English man would say, 'too much familiarity breeds contempt'. The need for having the Start-up in the traditional desktop is nothing wrong at all. The modern world is inching close to touch-based systems and applications than ever before. Just like the way it revolutionized the mobile sector.
Lol, Microsoft thinks desktops & laptops are dead (will be replaced by tablets with or w/o docking stations in the future). That's why they're going Modern-UI-crazy now. They don't want to be left behind when tablets become powerful enough that people stop buying desktops/laptops. Already starting to happen with Broadwell CPUs appearing in tablets...
I guess it's too early to think about these things, MS may still put Start Menu & Windowed-apps in win9 even if there is win8.2, there are all kinds of possibilities, and MS might not have made any solid decisions yet(that's what BrandonLive had said). Win8 was started on 7650, win9 on 9622, it's easy to compare, if you had tried 7850(compare to 98xx), you would remember how different it was to WDP(8102), let alone win8RTM(9200). AFAIK there is a feature pack, my friend said there is a "nice pleasant surprise"(it's not metro folder tile, not interactive live tile), no idea what the feature pack contains. I don't know about release days.
@FaiKee; Integration of Cortana would be on top of my wishlist. - Wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft decides to...... Nah, scratch that. Wishful thinking.
True, i also like the Windows-Store. Some of the apps are really usefull. I just don't like it to have them all in fullscreen. That's like having iOS on a Desktop-PC.. And yeah, that's kinda odd. Yep, Microsoft is too far ahead. Just like with Vista.. It had some many features that most PCs couldn't handle at all. Haha, yeah i remember it very well.. The Developer Preview was the first build of Windows 8 that disappointed me. Build 7850 is still my fav build.
I expect an Update 2, but there's absolutely no time for 8.2 without it getting the Millennium Edition treatment. Equally silly that 9 is more defined than a nebulous project like Threshold, unless they are the same thing...
I think Windows 9 should provide metro app templates for WinForms. I hope Windows 9 uses dynamic icon like metro tiles instead of old icon like desktop icon in Windows 8. I think metro app should be formed and can install without Windows store. I think the default inputs method should be English in Chinese Versions. I hate Windows 7 because it changes less than Windows Vista.I think every major version should have great changes like Windows 8.Have less changes like Windows 7 should be a Service Pack or Update. I have not used Windows Vista in my computer but Vista is my favourite Operating System.
The 9x/XP-era icons and styling need to die. I'd gladly welcome a Metro-style desktop if it means the end of visually jarring installers.
In my opinion they should stop with pumping out Windows versions each year, makes no sense really, windows 7 worked just fine (after the Vista fiasco), then they released win8 which was another fiasco, partially fixed by 8.1....and now after so little time has passed, theyre announcing win9? wtf...
Because it is good or because you hate it? Ontopic - Start Menu tiles have gradient backgrounds. No one is forcing you to update if you don't want to. When Win9 will arrive it will be 3 years from launching Windows 8, same as between Win Vista and Win 7 and from Win7 -> Win8. That's actually too slow when comparing to other OS-es.