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Microsoft to reveal Windows 9 next month

2014-08-22

[FREEP] Might Microsoft be ready to reveal the latest version of its Windows operating system?
Sorry. No urge to look at it.
The Verge reports Microsoft is planning an event Sept. 30, where it will announce Windows 9. The report cites "sources familiar with Microsoft's plans."
Having bought a couple or three new machines in the past year or so, I regard Windows as a virus.
The event will showcase several upgrades to the user interface, says the report, and may even include Cortana, Microsoft's voice assistant.
I actually tried to get used to Windows 8.1, mainly because I couldn't figure how to install Linux on it. It was piggishly slow on a machine that has 8gb of memory and four processors. I have no idea how habitual Windows users get by with only one workspace.
The new Windows OS would be the first launch under Satya Nadella, who took over as CEO of Microsoft earlier this year. Nadella has focused on shifting Microsoft toward a strategy aimed at the mobile and cloud space.
The way they've got the BIOS... errr... UEFI locked down now, you have to go in through Windows to boot into it. Turn off CMS and disable "Safe Boot." Then you can boot from DVD, install Xubuntu, install all sorts of programs for free that you'd have to pay for under Window$, have as many workspaces as you please--I use four of them--and have your machine run as smoothly as it's capable of running.

Posted by:Fred

#12 We have MSnot Windoze as the other OS's don't 'play nice' with our accounting, reporting and project management software (larger company, so the current Linux and GNU apps won't really work for us).

Been trying to talk our software vendors into making Linux or Mac versions, but the response is always "Why? Just for you?". I guess we're large, but not large enough.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-08-22 20:21

#11 I've got one of Bunnie's laptops on order. "If you can't hack it, you don't own it."

Posted by: KBK 2014-08-22 14:02

#10 CrazyFool - look at what the Canon Hackers SDK can do with your cheap Powershot camera.

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

Posted by: 3dc 2014-08-22 12:06

#9 Seems Windows is following the Star Trek Movie model - every other version sucks wind. ME - sucks (however 2K (NT) was ok), XP - good, Vista - sucks, 7 - good, 8 - sucks, 9 - ??.

I also build my own (wish there was a way to build your own laptop)... Lets face it most users are not tech savvy. Mrs. Fool uses her laptop for Facebook, Email, and Skype and occasional shopping at Costco or Amazon - that's it. Linux would not be a good fit for her. Yeah-yeah I know Ubuntu makes it easy and all that but she needs something which 'just works' (and doesn't have to work too hard). She would have a hard time editing obscure files in /etc/sysconfig to change some even more obscure configuration parameters never mind the command line. (and besides it came with the computer). I use both fairly well but then it's my job to know both.

It's just a tool.

Kind of like cameras - you have your low end point-and-shoot, higher end Consumer and 'Prosumer' Digital SLR (with one or two lenses and perhaps a filter or two) and then you have your high-end SLR setups (along with dozens of lenses and filters, etc..). I would probably be lost and fairly crude with a high-end but a professional who knew it would be able to make it dance.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-08-22 11:35

#8 So will this be a GB a day in updates or will it be more?

Posted by: 3dc 2014-08-22 10:41

#7 At #6 and your confessed tech acumen clearly confirms my long-held suspicion. You have a TROJAN SPIRIT parked behind your garage and streaming SIPR to your man cave. Don't the neighbors bitc* about the generator noise ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-22 10:26

#6 I still build my own systems. I need Windos for gamin. I knew better than use a .0 Miscrosoft OS release, so I waited until 8.1. I ended up reformatting the MS partition, and reverting back to Win7-64.

The 9.0 release is actually what would have been 8.2. MS is just chaining the label to 9.0 to get rid of the Win8 stigma. Win8 is a failed release, just like Vista. And Just like WIn7 wasn't all that different from Vista, mainly more stable and a lot of the crap removed, so 9.0 will basically be Win 8 with even more of the deign mistakes removed ("metro" on the desktop was a huge error), and better stability and functionality. Its actually a ".2" release, so if you've been waiting to go to Win8, wait until after the first major update to Win9. That should be relatively usable and stable, at least as far as MS Windows goes.

I dual boot BSD, and have a Mac mini for most day to day junk. Win is for gaming only.

Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-22 10:16

#5 Isn't exposing yourself a crime? DarthVader

Not, if you are exposing yourself to Art or magic tricks - otherwise you are a perv.

Posted by: Javising Snore4333 2014-08-22 09:34

#4 Don't buy machines with a locked down UEFI that can't be disabled.

More details from the Free Software Foundation, which is spearheading the fight. Search their website for UEFI and become an Associate Member.

Posted by: KBK 2014-08-22 09:12

#3 They were told for over a decade to make something for users rather than the central planners and programmers. Tablets are taking that market and will evolve while the dinosaur will continue to push the one (really really big) size fits all strategy.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-08-22 08:52

#2 Bought a chromebook a few weeks back. Really good if you don't need big fat desktop apps, which 90% of people don't.

Posted by: phil_b 2014-08-22 02:49

#1 Isn't exposing yourself a crime?

Posted by: DarthVader 2014-08-22 00:42

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