"10 Days With Windows 10: Is It Worth Installing The Beta?"

[kane_magus]

Yeah, no, I'm still perfectly fine with Windows 7 and haven't even upgraded and won't upgrade to Windows 8, so I definitely have no reason or desire to upgrade to Windows 10. Yes, they're apparently skipping Windows 9 for some reason.

(EDIT) From one of the comments under that article:

"I've read that it's Windows 10 instead of 9 not because of marketing, but because there is tons of software out there that checks that it isn't running on Windows 95 or 98 by checking that the OS name doesn't begin with 'Windows 9'. As a software developer, I find this explanation entirely plausible."

Don't know if that's true or not, but I could easily believe it. (/EDIT)

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Actually I think there is going to be a Windows 9 next year, offered as a free upgrade to anyone who actually purchased Windows 8. (Not the free Windows 8 versions mind you that ship with a new computer. Only if you actually paid the 300-500 dollars for the OS.)

If that's true, and I got this from slashdot comments so I dunno, then it looks like Windows 9 is just to be Windows 8 SP2, and the change in the number is just to avoid having all Windows 8 users expect a free upgrade to it.

If I were to get a new computer I'd probably prefer to have Windows 7 on it these days myself mainly because it still has a start menu.

Still, it's starting to look like Microsoft is seriously trying to rope Windows users into paying for their OS every year - plausible theory given Gates has been on record as saying he'd want Windows to be a yearly subscription deal in the past.

The problem is, the OS isn't going to change significantly from year to year, certainly not to justify a yearly 200-500 dollar price tag. "Oh that's potentially less than 20 dollars a month! That isn't too bad!" "Yeah, but that's a 20 dollar a month fee to use the computer I purchased."

Plus, if the OS DOES change that much from year to year, it means software is likely going to be breaking every year. This means increased development costs for everybody, including businesses that are just using the software and not developing it.