I did as it is Windows 10, not 9.
That.....lawsuit makes no sense. I doubt the average person is going to confuse a cloud storage service with a television broadcaster. Of course, I could be overestimating the average person.
The best news so far? They're actually making some improvements to the command line.
The naming does seem odd, but the if (os.name.startsWith("Windows 9")) explanation may be the reason. Not too different from why Windows 8.1 is actually Windows 6.3 internally (and Windows 10 will probably be Windows 6.4).
I did have to check to see whether I would've fallen victim to a "Windows 9", though. Fortunately not - my only special case code deals with Vista, and that's handled by evaluating the response to the function I call and taking the necessary extra steps if it's Vista+'s response, not by version string checking. I can certainly see how it would be an issue, though.
Hopefully there is a way to disable Metro with one click in the settings.
Also the cloud stuff should stay optional.
Requiring the use of cloud storage would be basically [..] DRM[...]
The Windows 10 desktop isn't all that different from Windows 8.1's, but it's more important for the OS to replace Windows 8's damaged brand.
Microsoft highlighted the problem in a circa-2008 series of ads called the "Mojave Experiment." Microsoft's point in these ads was that when people actually used Vista instead of just hearing about it, their opinion of the operating system improved. The point that the company inadvertently made was that Vista's negative first impression had stuck, regardless of how much the operating system had improved since launch.
The best thing about Windows 10 is the return of the start menu and I see what looks like an Aero glass taskbar, that is awesome.
They should just get rid of cmd in favour of PowerShell
After my previous post, realized that version checking probably isn't the actual reason, there's no reasonable ability for programs to check os.name.startsWith("Windows 9").
I was just about to buy Windows 7 but I never got round to upgrading before due to the cost. Stuck on Vista, which is fine apart from the odd quirk here and there.
Do you think I should hold off until Windows 10?
If I didn't play games, I would be using Linux.
New OSes tend to be specified/optimised for contemporaneous computing power, so the two should be upgraded in tandem really.