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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53567

The build of Windows 9 that leaked earlier today has now been shown off on video for the first time and shows several of the new features including the new Start menu that expands with new tiles.

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Kompressor · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 8:05 am Post subject:

So let me get this straight... just to get the start menu back, I'm going to have to buy a whole new operating system, Windows 9? What an awesome deal!!! (sarcasm)

Csimbi · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:00 am Post subject:

@Kompressor
You got you start menu in Windows 8.1 already. Rubbish, but you got it.

Windows 9 is not for us, little ants.
It's an attempt to convince corporations to buy into something else than Windows 7 after Windows XP; as you might know, there's just no alternative to Windows 7 right now. MS wants to milk the cow (well, a hell of a lot of cows) and move on.
A smart IT guy knows that when you move 25k people from Windows XP or Windows 7 to Windows 8 in an organization, there will be a lot of questions. If, on the other hand, you could smooth the transition somehow (like shown in this hybrid tree/tile-based start menu), people might accept the tiles over the years. There are a lot of dinosaurs in the office, and there are a lot of people with opinions, habits and preferences.

It's another thing that Windows 9 looks like shit. By that, I mean the UI - the icons, the colours. It was clearly designed for robots and not human beings. Windows XP was eye-pleasing. This one? I'd want to smash it.

Koogle · Elite Member Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 1362

looks so fucking flat and shit

metro crap

spectra9 · Contributor Joined: 29 Jul 2010 Posts: 38

Looks so flat and ugly. Why is MS sticking with this Metro crap? Heck, why did MS invent Metro in the first place? This thing looks so ugly and archaic, even Vista's widgets look way way better. MS is going backward in the UI department since Windows 8, and with Win 9, it doesn't seem they intend to make it any better

Csimbi · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 2:49 pm Post subject:

Let's just hope it's because it's an early build.

Penetreitor · Junior Member Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 167

I'm still using Windows 7, and miss Windows 2000...

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4289

I've no plans to migrate away from Windows 7. I see nothing here worth the upgrade at all. I don't like the Win9 UI either, quit push your stupid phone OS architecture on me. Hopefully Linux picks up in terms of gaming and steam. I'm hoping to leave Windows behind completely. If Mantle picks up and Nvidia and ATI lessen their lameness over it Linux could take over Windows completely. I'm sure MS is in bed with both companies with DirectX and will make it hard to offer real Mantle support. I think lame ATI has already walked away from it. Oh noooos!! we can support both, that would cost real money and require innovation and better drivers!! As it is ATI totally sucks on Linux. At least Nvidia put work into it's drivers and doesn't entirely lie about hardware acceleration on Linux.

NakedFaerie · Senior Member Joined: 26 May 2013 Posts: 289

Metro was the biggest flop since the stability of Windows Vista.
When they released Windows 8 without a start menu thats not the only thing you lost. They also killed off desktop gadgets. I use them daily as my UPS is monitored via gadgets so I cant upgrade as Windows 7 is the last OS with gadgets.

So whats needed is Start Menu, Gadgets, good looks as Windows 8/9 look so flat like IOS7 which also sucks with its lack of looks and flat plain look.

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4289

Dude gadgets were removed because they were huge security holes. Microsoft discontinued support of them even. In Win7 the recommendation everywhere was 'don't use them', use 3rd party instead. Don't think MS will venture down that path anymore. Guarantee you won't be seeing them in Win9.

Yes, Metro does suck and clearly MS doesn't listen if they are putting that junk in Win9 but is that really a surprise?

doodah · Junior Member Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 242

Geez, the amount of hate in here - it's like a grumpy cat convention!

Win9 looks fine to me. Yeah it's a little flat and transparent, but everything's going down the flat route these days; it's the "in" thing lads! Who on earth thinks XP was good looking? Luminous blue with a bright green blob? Really?!

Vista was a stable OS, it just got a bad reputation because it was lumpy when it came out. Some of it was its own fault, although a fair chunk was drivers. Go back and try it out now - seriously, it's fine.

Agreed with ATIs Linux drivers though, I wish they'd make them better Sad

amra · Junior Member Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 161

Csimbi is right. Nearly no company changes from win 7 or office 2010, until MS fixes his shit. Win 9 is a good try. But with office I'm unsure, this cloudshit really anoys me.

For the UI MS is behaving pretty logical from their standpoint. It looks modern, it is easy to render, it is the same over most of the platforms. From developer perspective the right choice. Android L goes this way too.
And I do not care that much, its looking better then XP bubble shit and easier to implement, enough for me. Colors are adjustable.

Win8 (and so 9) is technically better then 7, for me a reason to switch to 9 after SP1 (under conditions). I hate MS for not bringing out another SP2 for 7, stupid bastards. Every time you setup win 7 you have to install updates afterwards or you update every month your buildimages, what a crap.

Csimbi · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:23 am Post subject:

Mojoman · Contributing Member Joined: 14 Jan 2011 Posts: 94

MS became utterly crap. I moved to OS X and I don't see myself changing.

Recently my dad bought a laptop with Win8 installed. He barely knew how to use it. UI is a MESS with this METRO crap. I decided to install Win7 and the drivers downloaded from the official website didn't work as expected. What a crap…

So I decided to try a few Linux versions (Ubuntu, Fedore, SUSE, Elementary OS...). After using Fedora 20 I knew it was a great OS. Stable, clean install, fast enough, easy to install apps... No more terminal BS to do any simple change as my previous experiences with Linux. I'm really impressed.

I know IT departments require Windows machines for it's Office apps but would be nice if people could take the time to try Linux.

amra · Junior Member Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 161