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Windows "Next" hate is nothing new
- backwardsx 14y agoI never understood people's love for Windows XP. It maybe started to get good after a few service packs but I found it to be unstable and prone to slowing down after a short while of use even into SP2. Whatever initial criticisms of XP that had come out were probably justified (It definitely was and still is an ugly operating system). I don't agree with the author's point that people automatically hate whatever windows version come next. It just seems that way because we haven't had a good windows since 98. The only reason why windows 7 actually turned out to be a decent operating system is because it needed to be, the competition(OSX, linux) was gaining ground under XP primarily because of how bad it was. Sure I imagine that the age of XP had something to do with it but I remember installing linux back in 2004/2005 after one to many blue screens with XP and not looking back until windows 7.
- SlipperySlope 14y agoEssentially ... "Does this mean that everyone is going to drop Windows 7 in favor of 8? Probably not; chances are that a ton of businesses and consumers will still be running it when Windows 9 (or even 10) comes out. But that’s not necessarily because they hate it, it’s just the way people adopt new OSes – with new hardware." ... So will companies and consumers upgrade to laptops with touch screens?