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Windows 9 (videos of OS in action)
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Anyone interested in a sneak peak at Windows 9 can see some videos here:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/windows-9-features/
This is obviously an internal build due to warning on screen that employees may have their contracts terminated if anyhing gets out about Windows 9 (oops!)
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/windows-9-features/
This is obviously an internal build due to warning on screen that employees may have their contracts terminated if anyhing gets out about Windows 9 (oops!)
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But I guess this is moulding the desktop/UI to the inabilities of those able to use what it already offers, flexibility - tomato.
Unreleased?
It's still Windows 8 to me, I can't see this being popular unless they allow it as a free upgrade from 8.1. They're going to have such a hard time with apps unless they continue to remove stuff from the OS and put it into apps. They will have to be free as long as those with memories remember what they used to be given in Windows anyway.
They tried this with Skype and backtracked so the desktop version could be installed on 8.x.
Maybe if they give Minecraft away with every PC. Just three years too late
It's trying to solve a problem which doesn't need solving IMO but I'm happy to be corrected in the future.
As for the rest of it, notifications are long overdue, but this to me just looks like windows 8.2. Except everyone will go nuts for it despite there being hardly any difference because everyone loves to hate windows 8. From my point of view its a rather unexciting, unambitious release.
Couldn't agree more, but perhaps Microsoft need to be unambitious if Windows 8 was a revelation of their blue-sky thinking or their vision of the next paradigm.
Seems to be what MS might need at the moment - Windows 8 was very ambitious but didn't work out for them so they need to concentrate on what works this time round and reign in some of the more ambitious stuff.
Maybe
The changes MS is making for Windows 9 are boring but necessary changes, they are not going to light up the sky, however it will bring the desktop user back into the fold. They have learned from the Win 8/8.1 experience a lot, even going as far to admit that desktop users struggle to use the platform.
I am looking forward to the release....the way it looks is the best of both worlds, as the Modern UI based applications are quite useful, I find the News and Finance apps very helpful.
Me? I shall await the actual release of W9 and then, I shall comment on what I see. Windows 8 with Classic Shell installed is fine and as long as Microsoft allow similar free third party add-ons, W9 should be too.
I'm used to the Charms bar now and would probably miss it.
Plus I don't see the point of putting the Modern tiles on the Start Menu. Looks like it can be expanded to put more and more of them on, so might just end up filling the screen anyway?
As others have said, it looks like it should be called 8.2 rather than 9, as it's just a development of Windows 8, and not a new concept.
However, if it's a free upgrade, I shall almost certainly get it, and have no problem using it, but can't see me paying for it.
I've used Ubuntu (and other Linuxes) for years, and have never once used the multiple desktop feature.
Seems to me it's just as easy clicking on the taskbar to bring up the wanted window, than to click to bring up another desktop with the window on.
I suppose if you are doing loads of things at once it might help keep things organized?
But if I'm doing some business stuff, I might have another window open in the corner of the screen showing a video at the same time, but that has to be on the same desktop or you won't see it (unless you have multiple monitors).
....You won't be able to comment until you've seen and tried it, so you aren't really doing anyone any favours....
There's no reason why MS would not allow the TP apps in W9. Windows has always been customisable with them.
Glad you agree that W8 is fine.
In a way, this is actually worse than Windows 8, because now the Modern Metro tile interface interferes with the desktop, by appearing in the start menu.
Whereas before you could ignore it once in the desktop.
I won't be bothering with any of the Start menu's Metro interface.
OK so let's have a look... can't try it though so many unanswered questions remain.
That's no different from how I have Classic Shell set up though, there is a separate menu item for Apps, which I haven't clicked on for months, it's easy to ignore.
As long as it's free and I can turn off everything related to Metro, such as charms etc., I may be able to live with W9 without add-ons. Multi desktop can be ignored but I suppose I might find a use for it, who knows?
Windows 9: "what Windows 8 should have been..."
There won't be. The tiles on the new start menu are optional and can be disabled. The same leaker released an image with the tiles disabled.
http://news.softpedia.com/images/news2/New-Windows-9-Video-Leaks-Shows-a-Windows-7-like-Start-Menu-with-No-Live-Tiles-458682-2.jpg
One hopes, but I doubt, that MS will allow people to customise the look and feel of it to previous Windows version like we could always do. However, with the locked down version of Windows 8 and the dire look and feel of Office 2013 which cannot be changed, I doubt that is going to happen. Windows has gone from being very customisable so one can have it set up to get the most out of it with the way one works (and I have to use all Office programmes at work) to being a system that basicaly says: MS way or no way.