Windows 8 Sour Grapes??

[Chris Trott]

Also, remember that Windows 8 was/is aimed at being more of an "all platform" OS, meaning that it's designed so that one package will work on everything from a high-end PC all the way down to a smart phone (i.e. Windows Mobile). As such, it's got a lot more emphasis on "apps" in the smartphone/tablet sense and less on the traditional structuring. This will cause problems for some PC users at first until content developers switch over, but since Windows 7 will be supported for some time to come, I suspect we'll see the hardcore guys like us staying on Win7 until such time as all the problems of Win8 are worked out or Win9 comes out and finds that happy medium again.

BTW, the "every other version" deal was kinda interrupted a few years ago when NT4 and then XP were released, both very good OS's.

[TSR2]

Your the first person I've ever heard call Win NT a "very good OS" and thats coming from the guy they call Wintel Watson

[Chris Trott]

NT4 was a good OS. Very different from NT. My last employer didn't upgrade from NT4.0 to XP until 2005 and we never had any problems with the OS itself. We then upgraded (oddly) to Vista a couple years later in 2009 only to roll out Windows 7 Enterprise last year in a rush as stuff kept breaking (surprise).

[TSR2]

NT 4 was ok in its day, mid - late '90s. I think most would argue that 2003 was the start of the very good server OS's from Microsoft, but each to their own

[Chris Trott]

That's server side. I was talking OS/user side. After NT4, there weren't any more "NT" releases since Microsoft unified the code in XP, which is what most people credit for XP being such a good OS because it took the best parts of the core code of NT4 and married it with a more "modern" GUI allowing you to get both the great looks that had been lacking on the business side up until NT4 while the home users got the stability of the enterprise codec.

And let's not get started on Windows Server anyway. I have horror stories that I still occasionally have nightmares over (no joke) from trying to keep a Compaq File Server/Workgroup Server running an early version of Windows NT working and talking with an AppleShare workgroup server that we had for the Apple Labs at my High School.