More like and/or if you get my drift.

Hopefully they fix the problems that Windows 7 has with the Search tool.

Thank you Jafo I think you're right, just be that Windows 9 will be loved by the public

Absolutely, that is about the only thing I don't like about Windows 7.

To stay on topic, somewhat, I am running Win8.1 and loving it.... Only because of Start8!! Well, and Fences as well, but without Start8 I'd have gone back to Windows 7.

"at least that's some advance towards normalcy"

You mean retreat backwards towards normalcy

I wonder if they'll bring back Aero. The lack of glass effects is a bummer.

I agree with Jafo............. I love my win 7

That windows 9 start menu looks like half windows 7 and some misplaced chunks of photography.

I do not care,  I love 7 and will not be switching any time soon it appears.

 Good info though, thank you.

Looks like another mess to me.. get away from the ugly ASS flat colored 'idiot' squares.. PLEASE.

Okay look, you know what I would like instead of photo squares on the right there?  A 'suggested programs/documents' list, without actually calling it that.  Every time you, for example, play GalCiv 2, it will get populated with other games in your collection in the same genre, or games that you typically play afterwards.

Or, for example, if I were to use Word for writing a book, it will show files with the same tag as the file that I'm working on, meaning that I could use Start to launch pretty much all the files I need to work with or refer to, without drilling with Windows Explorer.  Of course, I don't use Word for that at all, but someone else probably would.

That seems to me a much better use of space.

Frogboy

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So basically Windows 8 + Object Desktop.

Precisely...as if you didn't know. 

vStyler

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Looks like another mess to me.. get away from the ugly ASS flat colored 'idiot' squares.. PLEASE.

 

Not likely, John...and more's the pity. 

If folks aren't griping about W9 that much, and Brad gushes about the under-the-hood stuff like they did with W8, and there aren't a ton of compatbility issues with some of my older stuff, I'll be happy with W9.

W7 has some compatibility issues with older stuff- a friend of mine who does dev work has to use XP to work on some older projects.

Yeah, I've been using win8 for a while on my tablet/laptop and besides the cognitive dissonance between having apps load as apps and software load as software* I think there are a couple of nice updates to the OS. If they build on that for win9 I could definitely see myself using that for my next format. Might even get a huge touch-screen if they come in gamer-format.

*Yeah, I still can't even describe it right - but you can have an IE window open as a normal program and you can have it open as an app and that's two different things that you access differently for no purpose at all.

I'm waitin' on 9. If its a freebie upgrade from Win7SP1 I'm all over it........maybe......if it works......

I bought the full install of Win8 last year, and did not care for the need to hunt around for everything I use. Next is the fact that most of my apps would have to be upgraded and as I'm on disability, I can't afford to upgrade any time soon. I'll stick with Win7 until I have to be pulled kicking and screaming to a version of Windows I think I might like and there's no more support for 7(yes I know it will be sooner than later).