A little off topic but I hope M$ learned their lesson and does not do a WMC upgrade crap like they did with windows 8. Nothing but chaos for everyone.
Now I've a funny question. Wy are thes "tools" compilled in another .Net-Version than 4.5? Answer: Because Windows 8 ships naturaly with 4.5 and therefor it has to be evil. Answer2: Because it wouldn't be locical to use a .Net version which naturaly ships with Windows 8 for a "tool" which can only be usefull with Windows 8 or up. Answer3: Because you can not trust an application, which doesn't require you to install an aditional dependency, which originaly doesn't ship with Windows 8 allthought you only can use it with Windows 8 and up. Why do I think now, that for some strangely unknown reason the reasonmaking process of these tools by there makers are somehow severly flawed?
That's a very good point, but unfortunately installing dotnet 3.5 does not cause these programs to work. MS have deliberately removed the remaining legacy Start Menu code so that programs that rely upon it do not work. The only Start Menu alternative that works is Classic Shell 3.5.0, no other newer version works.
Exactly how the hell did you come to think this? A few more options in the Metro control panel is enough to make you think this is Windows 9? I guess some people are very easy to please. Windows Blue, or whatever the hell it's going to be called, is nothing more than Windows 8 SP1. Or more accurately, Windows 8 Finished Edition.
winblue has a upgraded kernel 6.3, so MS wanted to make it something special, other than just a SP. win9 is expected to have ReFS for client builds(take it as a rumor); among other things. (Edit: the RefS thing was said by Sinofsky in Build)
Windows 8 also had an updated Kernel, what exactly did that bring us that was groundbreaking, compared to Windows 7? Why do you all think this is "something special"? I don't get it...
Not much seems to be working in 9364 yet. Did some playing with it last night. It is a little slow. Not as fast or smooth as Windows 8 x86. Even on its own performance test in system it comes up lower then in Windows 8 x86 with WMC. Lets see if a x64 bit ver. leaks out. I though they where working on a 128bit ver. of blue or Windows 9. That would be nice to see.
Why not just download the Windows Blue beta and use it? Hell, Windows 8 is pretty much an alpha operating system anyways so you would be going from alpha (Windows 8) to Beta (Windows Blue)