Yes, along with everyone else. Microsoft is finding it too hard to do things of substance to make Windows better (literally, it appears to be beyond them to do), so their Marketing folks (think "the dark side of the force") are doing everything they can to make the next release of Windows - which really looks like about an 8.2 version so far - seem distant and very different from the debacle that's Windows 8 / 8.1. In an attempt to distance themselves greatly from Windows 8, they decided not to even try to call it Windows 9. Some say they wanted no confusion whatsoever with Windows 9x (e.g., 95 and 98). As though the name makes any difference whatsoever. I use Windows 8.1 now 100%, and it's been possible - with a great deal of tweaking and 3rd party software - to make it into a pretty good operating system for serious work. Unfortunately, so far Windows 10 seems to have pretty much the same characteristics. It's really almost no different at all - as I mentioned, about like an 8.2 release, which is I believe what they were going to call it before Marketing stepped in and said "OMG, Windows 8 is a flop, we can't afford to call anything else Windows 8". I believe we're seeing the end of the Windows era. It's too bad there's no good replacement. Someone will come up with something I imagine. Note: on re-reading this, it sounds like I'm trying to mean this as a dig against OS X. That's really not my intent, but OS X simply doesn't stand ready to take over business computing. Perhaps it can become the next great OS, but I really have no love for Unix after almost 40 years of exposure to it. -Noel
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