Microsoft about to dump "appalling" Windows 8

[Cwbguy]

I don't know if this is old news to techies here but I just saw this

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/busine...cle3974439.ece

[pin]

Yeah, been floating around for a few days.

They have some developer conference coming up soon where it is rumoured they will introduce Windows 9.

[bibbju]

Thank God! Just spent an hour on Skype with my Dad trying to walk him through Windows 8 on his new laptop. Useless bloody OS!

[shri]

Windows 8 made me switch to Mac OS. Of the last 5 comps I've bought, 3 have been Apple and 2 have been HPs running Win 7.

[Trance Omega]

Remember Windows ME?

[kimwy66]

Remember Windows ME?

I do. I renamed it Windows Fuck ME it's crashed again

[jgl]

Windows 8 caused me to not use our shiny new i5 laptop and just upgrade my old Win7 desktop. It is amazing irritating to use.

Hmm... come to think of it I should probably just downgrade the Win8 machine.

I know you can autoboot Win8.1 to the Desktop, but it also seems to need a bloody Microsoft account for you to log in. At least if you're connecting to a Server 2012 home environment.

[drumbrake]

I think most (or all?) who get Windows 8, upgrade to 8.1 which is seems to work fine.

[greenmark]

Are Microsoft doing a similar thing as the Star Trek films, in that they are alternatively good and bad?

[100LL]

I am still on Windows 7 and I will probably stick with it for the next few years - until they force something else on me that I don't need.