I said the reason it got bad rep. Without Vista you would not have Win 7. They share a lot of the same code. I had Vista and had zero issue with it. Now Win 7 is more efficient than Vista just like Win 8.1 is more efficient than Win 7. Most people hang ups with Win 8.1 is the "metro" interface and the different start menus. The interface can be bypassed entirely if you want. If you are happy with Win 7 stay on it. But Win 8.1 is the better OS.
Fair enough. I haven't used 8.1 yet but probably will at some point next week (just copped a new laptop) but the fact that Ballmer got lots of heat for Vista and 8 and that they tried to appease the public by adding a start menu consolation prize in 8.1 kind of says wonders about how people have perceived it and Microsoft knows that.
I told people months ago that they would do something like what they did with 8.1 once it was clear that no one wanted 8 in its current state.
Windows 9 will probably have a different UI altogether or at the very least, some kind of "classic mode option.
They took a gamble on the touchscreen shyt and it hasn't panned out. You don't try to fix what's not broken. They tried to pull an Apple and get "revolutionary" and be a trend setter when really they were damn near shadowboxing themselves.
