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Originally Posted by HarryT
The only real change is that you launch apps from a screen that looks very like the iPad or Android home screen, rather than a heirarchical "Start Menu", and that makes a lot of sense to me, given that a lot of people are now familiar with such interfaces.
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So, 8 is to WinME and 7 is to Win98 as Vista is to Win95. 95 and Vista brought dramatic under-the-hood changes which were finished/polished under 98/7 and Me/8 dropped a new interface on the whole thing (which, btw, tested a lot of ideas that evolved into the XP UI).
Win7 was the first OS update I paid for unless you count Me where MS upgraded my memory, disk, and gave me a digital camera for free when I dropped $90 on the OS upgrade. I got the three pack for ~$120.
I have a v8 upgrade which Staples is paying for. I hope it is not tied to the machine I just purchased because my wife is not a fan of change (would not go from Vista to 7) and I am.