What do you think?

 

It's not going to be a massive upgrade I think. It's mostly to EOL Windows 10 so they can eventually end support to it (in 2025). I'm imagining it's just a feature update on steroids. And I'd prefer it that way to be honest with you.

I did like this 11 minute slowed down piece of Windows start-up sounds though:

A piece of trivia, the original Windows 95 startup chime (and the first one in this video) was made by none other than Brian Eno, though he used a Mac to do it: "I wrote it on a Mac. I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them."

 

I think it may be time to change to win 10.
Usually Microsoft abandon a system when it's finally ready and stable.

 

Windows 1.0 - Windows 95 - Windows 98 - Windows Me - Windows XP - Windows Vista - Windows 7 - Windows 8 - Windows 10

 

Last edited: Jun 12, 2021

Nvidia to drop Windows 7 and Windows 8 driver support in October
Nvidia is going Windows 10 exclusive later this year

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/12/...s-7-windows-8-driver-support-end-october-2021

 

Anyway following the Microsoft release pattern the next window will be the worst ever.
Win 95
Win 98
Win ME
Win XP
Win Vista
Win 7
Win 8
Win 10
Win ???

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/hated-windows-versions/

 

Cowindows
Fewer users
Fewer silicon chips
Fewer videocard
Fewer analog

 

CoviDOS

 

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Missing win 2000

 

I just want a safe and stable system.

Patchday June 2021: Microsoft is missing out on Windows 10's new taskbar feature (June 9, 2021)
Microsoft released new Windows 10 updates on June patch day 2021.
These plug various security gaps in the system and bring a new function for the taskbar.

The June Patchday 2021 closes security gaps and eliminates various bugs in Windows 10, Office and other Microsoft programs. There is also a new function for the taskbar that is now being rolled out for all users. The US company Microsoft has rolled out the cumulative updates for June Patchday 2021 for Windows 10. The patches fix various bugs and fix 49 security holes, of which Microsoft classifies five as critical.

In addition, the "News and Interesting Topics" function for the taskbar will be activated for all users with the update. The weather button gives you direct access to news and topics of interest to you - such as local news, traffic or the current weather forecast for your location.Source: https://www.netzwelt.de/news/163347-patchday-fuer-juni-2021.html

 

Windows 3.11 for workgroups which was very popular goes in between 1.0 and 95. WindowsNT [for "pros"] started about the same time which they transformed into Windows 2000 and then butchered into XP and other crap.

 

Dark mode is still not implemented completely. Control Panel to Settings app migration is no where near. No tabbed file manager yet. They shouldn't name it Windows 11 because Windows 10 is f*ckin incomplete.

 

I hope, like Mac, Windows will support AVB natively (obviously with eligible hardware)

 

2 steps forward 2 backwards - so the next version is good, the next but one is bad and so on - let's hope that the software developers and the management team will do everything right this time and give us a good operating system. If there are too many instabilities, one sometimes thinks about blocking Microsoft's updates (probably works in the router). I had timeouts and then disconnected my music PC from the Internet and went online with another PC. Then they probably fixed all the errors and I tried again. Then everything worked and the world was fine again. Humans are not robots and make mistakes ...!

 

Windows 8.1 = Windows 9

 

There never was a Windows 9. (" Windows 10 makes such a big leap forward compared to the old versions that you just have to skip a version number to make the difference clear." )

Here is the correct chronicle (Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows)
Windows 1.0
Windows 2.x
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows Me
Windows NT 3.1
Windows NT 3.5
Windows NT 3.51
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP Prof. x64
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 8
Windows Phone 8
Windows RT
Windows Server 2012
Windows 10
Windows 10 Mobile
Windows Server 2016

 

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Not really, I think win 2000 was the only win server with an approach to final users, other server versions as win NT, 2003, 2008 were rock solid in comparison to final users versions, I used win 2000 and 2003 as server and desktop user, inclusive to me windows ME wasn't to bad, as it used similar tweaks and tools from 2000.

But honestly I think the release/marketing system of Microsoft had an intentional aim to create a bad user experience (usually really stupid stuff) to then fix it in the next version, I never heard of a server version with problems.

 

Take in consideration all the final versions as win 98 se, win xp sp 3, win 7 sp 1 also windows vista (never used it, just tested the longhorn version with the aero stuff that wasn't even close to the Linux GUI at those times), windows 8.1, I think win 95 also had a nice version but honestly I don't remember.

Win 8 mayor feature is the support of ARM processors and touchscreen integration, there are no changes or new improvements but a roll back from the windows UI (a new skin sort of) in win 8.1 but that is not enough to make it a different version

Just as a curiosity the GUI of Linux with Compiz, I installed it at the same time of testing aero (I don't used it I am more of a command line guy, no fancy interfaces), also to point out that a GUI can be changed just as with phones launchers.

Anyway I will never bore to use win 8 or win 8.1 myself

 

The actual "nice" version of Win 10 is this one

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch).