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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
If one is going to install Shells and trash the modern start pages to make it look like a previous version of Windows then one might as well stay with Win 7 until 2020 (or whenever support stops). Not much point upgrading in my view.
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There is a very large point: I work in IT, so I can't be completely ignorant about Windows 8.x, not even if my company does not upgrade until 2020.
Another point is that I plan to get a new computer in 2015, maybe 2016; this one just hit the 6 year mark in July 2014, and although it works very well (due to some upgrades in 2011), it -is- getting a bit long in the tooth.
I'd rather get Windows 9 with support up until 2020, than Windows 7 with support up until 2014. It looks like I'm hanging on to computers longer and longer the older I get; probably because I stopped playing the latest games, and with the ones that I do play, I'm often satisfied with 1280x720 already, because my eye-sight is too bad to read the (often) small fonts at 1920x1080 or higher.
I can easily see my next computer being in use from 2016 up until 2024, with some upgrades in 2020. My current computer will become a backup PC and 'legacy gaming machine' for the nostalgic moments, though I have a feeling that everything will still run on Windows 9; it does on Windows 8.x
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I am not suggesting with that that people not upgrade, just saying that if they want to upgrade but turn it back to be like the old version that they had before there is not much point upgrading (and if one buys a new machine with Win 8 on it, there are ways to get older copies of Windows for it).
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There are sometimes more reasons to upgrade than the GUI alone. For example, Windows 7 looks almost identical to Windows Vista, but it improved a great deal with regard to speed. Windows 8.x would have been a great operating system, and a good improvement in several areas over Windows 7, if Microsoft had included a proper Start Menu, drop shadows on the windows, and not made Metro the default on desktops; these things should have been options in the very least. Without them, Windows 8.1 is just an ugly, flat, schizophrenic operating system that doesn't know what it wants to be; a computer OS, or a tablet OS. IMHO.