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France President Alain Crozier accidentally revealed that Windows 9 will be launched next week. The software giant is now trying to cover that up a bit by clarifying that Crozier was referencing to next week's event that will show the future of Windows and that there is no such thing as Windows 9, of course.
lain Crozier, the President of Microsoft France, today became the first executive in the company to use the term "Windows 9" publicly to describe the next version of Windows.
Crozier made the statement as part of a company press event today that was live-streamed and is now available to watch on the Microsoft France website. During his presentation, he said, "Last year we had Windows 8. In the next few minutes, the next few days, we'll be releasing Windows 9." Crozier is likely referring to the press event scheduled to be held September 30, a week from today, in San Francisco, where the company is supposed to offer the first details on the next version of Windows and how it will help its enterprise customers.
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#4923024 Posted on: 09/26/2014 12:56 PM
While people are entitled to their opinion, windows 8.1 is nothing more than a far more efficient version of Windows 7. Simple as that.
Anyone else who says otherwise, they're just hopping on the bandwagon of No start button, windows 8 = fail.
There is no forcing of using a touch screen.
You never have to see the Start Menu.
Apps can be removed and silenced completely.
The new start menu is far superior to the old start menu. Instead of having to snake through like in the old start menu, all your programs are right there in open and can accessed in just one tap of the windows key and then click on required program. Two steps is all it takes, no more snaking, opening sub folder after sub-folder, just to get to the control panel or programs.
The start menu can be arranged by category, most used, recently installed etc with one click of the mouse. If a program doesn't make itself shown for some rare reason, just start typing, say 'Programs and Features' and before you've gotten to 'Progr' it'll be right there, just hit enter. Its pretty much just an extension of win+r. This new search function can be accessed from anywhere just by hitting win+s for program searches or win+f for personal file.
The overall experience is far smoother than that of 7, so much so, that I really don't feel the need to go back and to the point that 8.1 is far better than 7 was to Vista (another perfectly fine OS that dumb people couldn't figure out)
Internet Explorer 11 is actually worth using, so much so, that i dont bother with firefox or any other bloatware about. Everything about IE is smoother and snappy just like the OS.
I've yet to come across any program compatibility issues.
People need to stop being so petty and stupid about change. The old Start menu is obsolete. I hadn't bothered with in windows 7 for quite sometime as it was quicker to have desktop icons or pinned to taskbar.
I really hope MS havent allowed the simple minded folk to revert the great changes made in 8.1, just to please a pack of whining muppets who cant adapt to change, change being almost non existent in win 8 as its simply 7 but more efficient in every way.
I have no issues with the UI. I was referring to fundamental technical issues with the OS that have caused issues at home and at work but I'm sure a fanboy like yourself could overlook them too.
While people are entitled to their opinion, windows 8.1 is nothing more than a far more efficient version of Windows 7. Simple as that.
Anyone else who says otherwise, they're just hopping on the bandwagon of No start button, windows 8 = fail.
There is no forcing of using a touch screen.
You never have to see the Start Menu.
Apps can be removed and silenced completely.
The new start menu is far superior to the old start menu. Instead of having to snake through like in the old start menu, all your programs are right there in open and can accessed in just one tap of the windows key and then click on required program. Two steps is all it takes, no more snaking, opening sub folder after sub-folder, just to get to the control panel or programs.
The start menu can be arranged by category, most used, recently installed etc with one click of the mouse. If a program doesn't make itself shown for some rare reason, just start typing, say 'Programs and Features' and before you've gotten to 'Progr' it'll be right there, just hit enter. Its pretty much just an extension of win+r. This new search function can be accessed from anywhere just by hitting win+s for program searches or win+f for personal file.
The overall experience is far smoother than that of 7, so much so, that I really don't feel the need to go back and to the point that 8.1 is far better than 7 was to Vista (another perfectly fine OS that dumb people couldn't figure out)
Internet Explorer 11 is actually worth using, so much so, that i dont bother with firefox or any other bloatware about. Everything about IE is smoother and snappy just like the OS.
I've yet to come across any program compatibility issues.
People need to stop being so petty and stupid about change. The old Start menu is obsolete. I hadn't bothered with in windows 7 for quite sometime as it was quicker to have desktop icons or pinned to taskbar.
I really hope MS havent allowed the simple minded folk to revert the great changes made in 8.1, just to please a pack of whining muppets who cant adapt to change, change being almost non existent in win 8 as its simply 7 but more efficient in every way.
I have no issues with the UI. I was referring to fundamental technical issues with the OS that have caused issues at home and at work but I'm sure a fanboy like yourself could overlook them too.
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#4923027 Posted on: 09/26/2014 12:58 PM
Care to go into any specifics? I've literally ran 8 across hundreds of machines between work and home and haven't had any technical issues aside from the removal of F8.
I have no issues with the UI. I was referring to fundamental technical issues with the OS that have caused issues at home and at work but I'm sure a fanboy like yourself could overlook them too.
Care to go into any specifics? I've literally ran 8 across hundreds of machines between work and home and haven't had any technical issues aside from the removal of F8.
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#4923028 Posted on: 09/26/2014 12:59 PM
Laptop came with 8.1, classicshell actually fixed it for me. I might reformat and finally move on from 7.
Laptop came with 8.1, classicshell actually fixed it for me. I might reformat and finally move on from 7.
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#4923035 Posted on: 09/26/2014 01:02 PM
classicshell? Thats literally a step back. Learn (as in, open just the once, the rest is simple) and you find that the 8.1 start menu is far better and same goes for the rest of windows explorer.
classicshell? Thats literally a step back. Learn (as in, open just the once, the rest is simple) and you find that the 8.1 start menu is far better and same goes for the rest of windows explorer.
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While people are entitled to their opinion, windows 8.1 is nothing more than a far more efficient version of Windows 7. Simple as that.
Anyone else who says otherwise, they're just hopping on the bandwagon of No start button, windows 8 = fail.
There is no forcing of using a touch screen.
You never have to see the Start Menu.
Apps can be removed and silenced completely.
The new start menu is far superior to the old start menu. Instead of having to snake through like in the old start menu, all your programs are right there in open and can accessed in just one tap of the windows key and then click on required program. Two steps is all it takes, no more snaking, opening sub folder after sub-folder, just to get to the control panel or programs.
The start menu can be arranged by category, most used, recently installed etc with one click of the mouse. If a program doesn't make itself shown for some rare reason, just start typing, say 'Programs and Features' and before you've gotten to 'Progr' it'll be right there, just hit enter. Its pretty much just an extension of win+r. This new search function can be accessed from anywhere just by hitting win+s for program searches or win+f for personal file.
The overall experience is far smoother than that of 7, so much so, that I really don't feel the need to go back and to the point that 8.1 is far better than 7 was to Vista (another perfectly fine OS that dumb people couldn't figure out)
Internet Explorer 11 is actually worth using, so much so, that i dont bother with firefox or any other bloatware about. Everything about IE is smoother and snappy just like the OS.
I've yet to come across any program compatibility issues.
People need to stop being so petty and stupid about change. The old Start menu is obsolete. I hadn't bothered with in windows 7 for quite sometime as it was quicker to have desktop icons or pinned to taskbar.
There is literally no point in arguing anymore. People just repeat the same ****. Every time there is a Windows 8 news post at least one person comes in and goes "change for change sake" or some variant. 90% of the people here don't care about computing outside of what personally effects them. Although this doesn't surprise me because it's not just limited to computing but humanity as a whole.
Anyway I'm assuming they'll announce release date of the preview and talk about what they've been up too. One of the things I liked about Sinofsky is how open he was on the buildingwindows blogs. Hopefully Julie Larson will be willing to do the same.