I want to address a point that many here have replied to: > Given the disaster that has been Windows over the last few years Just because Windows has become s

I want to address a point that many here have replied to: > Given the disaster that has been Windows over the last few years Just because Windows has become stable and somewhat secure doesn't mean it hasn't been a disaster. Windows 8 upset everything with a pointless new interface requiring user retraining on even the most basic things like how to log on or log off. How to print. Etc. There are now dual built in apps (preferences) for multiple things, in both the new UI, and the conventional UI. Microsoft even tried to force the new interface onto server desktops. Developers had to write apps a new way. And then there was the store for the new apps. The legacy apps were to become just that -- legacy. Then Microsoft went back to having a start menu and a desktop again. Later, even as the primary interface -- but keeping some of the visual appearance of the "new" interface. And the Windows store. And Windows S. And the market confusion of Windows RT for ARM processors that cannot run legacy applications. But anyone could have (and I did) foresee that consumers would not understand this. Why won't my legacy x86 app run on Windows RT? The entire value proposition of Windows is that it runs legacy apps -- take that away and Windows has little value. Without the apps, it has less software than Linux or Mac. Developers were not going to port their apps to ARM for free. So if you bought Windows RT, be prepared to re-buy your apps. Consumers returned them in droves. For better or worse, Windows is deeply tied to Intel architecture. Much of this upset was changes just to prop up the failing (and now definitely failed) Windows 7, then Windows 8 phone. (Both of which caused the previous efforts of developers to be obsolete and abandoned.) And then redesigning the desktop UI yet again, for no good reason. I think one could be fair in calling this a disaster. Just sayin'