Do you think Windows 8 (or whatever they call it) will be a bust?

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Windows versions (for home computers) seem to be like Star Trek films, we get a good one then a bad one in order starting from 3.

Windows 3 was pretty poor.
Windows 3.11 was better and considered a good version (I consider 3.11 a different version)
Windows 95 although a significant upgrade was a poor and buggy OS
Windows 98 was great (i consider SE to be the same version)
Windows ME was a complete disaster
Windows XP was brilliant
Windows Vista was the worst OS ever made, just dreadful, epic fail, etc...
Windows 7 seems to be fine.

Going on this trend, I would expect Windows 8 to be buggy and grim and should give it a miss until Windows 9. Do you agree?

GibsonEssGee · Accepted Answer

Come back OS/2 2.11 all is forgiven. Well actually there was nothing to forgive, it was magic. The Windows 3.1 emulator was at least twice as fast as the real thing and OS/2's networking capability was so much better too. IBM kinda blew it with a poor GUI on OS/2 Warp 3 and 4.

Anonymous · Answer

personally i found win 95 a good os 
probably as this was my first and had no internet so no updates

i found win 98 to be not as good 
loved win me hated win 2000
xp was ok 
vista wasn't much better 
win 7 is a great improvement ,,mainly due to a better system and 64 bit

win 8  looks more like an ipad ,,touch screen to me is a waste
when using large screens 28" and 32"
will probably use a friends as they are looking to buy 
a new system with win 8 installed
my next upgrade will probably be win 9 and service pack 1 or 2
around 2014

Rafael · Answer

haha windows vista was the worst??? are you kidding me?? if you look from the design of XP and then look at vista there is a **** load of difference... it is the biggest difference of the windows comparison, 
anyways win 8 will be released 7 Jan 2013 if everything goes like planned, but why would it be a bust? if you already have win 7 on your computer i wouldn't upgrade, it pprobablyisn't that much better, but win 8 will be included in every win computer you buy :) so you don't need to pay for it if you are going to buy a new computer :)

i can't find anything bad about win 7 so i don't think they have pprovedthat much in it..
i mean new is always better :)

Ben Schorr · Answer

I think each version of Windows is an independent event so in this case past performance isn't a reliable indicator of how good (or bad) Windows 8 is likely to be. When it ships we'll evaluate it and if it's lousy we'll give it a pass.

Prandman1 · Answer

We can only wait and see.  It's also a matter of opinion,  Personally I hated XP and liked Vista much better.

Ian Nelson · Answer

First off, I think the trend doesn't particularly matter.

However, looking at the previews of it, I'd say it looks pretty awful! I certainly won't upgrade.

Anonymous · Answer

It will still be a Microsoft product.
I have purchased my last ever Windows OS.
Linux baby.

Anonymous · Answer

It will still be a Microsoft product and apart from from two good products_XP and Win7- they haven't got a real good track record, have they?.

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