Yeah, I'm looking forward to Windows 10. There were rumours the other day that Windows 9 will be a free update to Windows 8 users (a Service Pack with a bigger number to shake off some stigma, really), and since they're saying 10 is still very early in development, perhaps Windows 9 isn't technically being skipped altogether.

But yeah, looking forward to what is hopefully the next good one in their backpedal-from-the-bad-and-improve-the-good cycle.

EDIT: On second thought, having actually looked through MasterQ32's link this time, they're quite open about not having a "Windows 9" at all. Never mind my rambling.

I'm just looking forward to seeing what comes of this!

Win NT is badly missing from the list. When I worked as a design engineer, I used it with a CAD/CAM system and was rock solid. But lacked DirectX...

I think Microsofts general direction right now is pretty good.
Imho Windows 8.1 wasn't bad at all. Windows 8 had some flaws, but it was usable as well. I'm using it ONLY from desktop PCs and i'm all happy. You don't have to use any modern ui app except for os settings and the new start menu.
And the start menu kicks ass. You have much more control over what you want to see and what you don't want to see. Also the second dimension works pretty good, you can organize everything in groups and just have the stuff you use in high frequency. Everything else is just start by typing the name in.

Let's see how the new ideas with multi-desktops, changed start menu and so on will work out.
I think that most of the stuff will change until release of Windows 10.

Also what I would like to see in (any) Windows is a built in Tiled Window Manager. That would be just awesome if it is done right.

Hahahaha yes

But look at date of that article:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2613504...windows-10.html


MUHAHAHAHAHAHA

Wenn ihr schon so zählt, dann bitte auch mit den Versionen zwischen Windows 3 und Windows 95!

Es gibt keinen Version zwischen Windows 3 und Windows 95 (Win95 = Win4)

Yeah but the image takes "Windows 9" into account that also does not exist. Also Windows NT doesn't appear.

Right now i'm downloading the technical preview, wanna try it on HyperV....

Yeah I thought I might've been missing something there. But those images are never correct anyway.

NT was a separate development branch, like 2k.

Technically Windows XP is the follower of Windows 2k (= NT 5.0), but for the private end user it was sold as follower of Windows ME.

DOS based:
Windows 1.0
Windows 2.x
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows Me
(Follower: XP, not DOS based anymore)

New Technology:
(at first targeted enterprise use only)
Windows NT 3.1
Windows NT 3.5
Windows NT 3.51
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
(from here on, also for private users, finally with PnP)
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

Taking away the server, tablet and phone editions, the picture is not all that wrong anymore (seeing fromprivate user's perspective)

Windows 1.0
Windows 2.x
Windows 3.0

Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows Me
Windows XP / Windows XP Prof. x64
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 10

you're forgetting Win 3.11