Windows 8 will be more successful than Windows 7 and XP

Quote from Rei : I will wait for Windows 9, Windows 8 will be just like Windows Vista, Windows ME, and other releases Microsoft has had before their real release.

Windows 8 is a "real" release...that supports a single unifying Microsoft Live log on.... more secure.

Me was a hybrid of 98/2000 rushed to market for the new century... MS was already working on XP at the time and Me was an ugly stepchild.

Vista was a necessary security overhaul its issues stemmed from needing video support, more hard drive space and forcing it onto computers designed for XP..had you used Vista on a proper platform it was a good OS. On lesser computers XP was faster, made Vista seem slow. The average user does not put security over speed.

MS lost their lunch over Vista's rollout fiasco and was being hammered by antitrust rules...which are now GONE! That's why 8 gets an Antivirus built in now.

Windows 8 is the most significant OS MS has come out with since XP.... it is refined 3rd generation Vista with a new re-invention of Windows. The difference is IT WORKS BETTER than its predecessors (7, Vista and XP). You could not say that for either Vista nor Me..... its not a minor release.

The public will clamor for a faster better windows and MS will sell it CHEAP! Also have NEW cutting edge hardware to support it.
That means Windows 8 will be a VERY VERY successful OS.

I'm going to laugh when all the naysayers here are running it on at least 4-5 devices..and integrating it into their Xbox360's.

I think MS's strategy is to have TWO decent client OS's available when they pull the plug on XP. One more traditional solid and one cutting edge chic. That way they cover just about any user on all their devices. While at the same time taking out their competition that grew during their antitrust years.

You watch.. VMWARE, Chrome, Apple, other antivirus vendors, Skype, Android (Google), drop box and many others will LOSE out. I would not be surprised to see MS's market share reach all time highs. They will be laughing all the way to the bank. The only reason Android and Apple grew was because of the antitrust penalties that stifled MS innovation. That was then this is now. Heck your touch aware TV might run windows 8 in the future.

Microsoft's whole universe is switching to a Metro style... look at Skydrive it has a new metro look, look at Hotmail now Outlook.com all Metro and in a position eventually to topple GMAIL. Look a BING going Metro too. The gloves are OFF and MS is pretty PO'd about watching others thrive. My money is on them....they want a Metro world and you will follow. If I were Google I'd be concerned with BING.... MS does not like to lose they've been planning thier resurgence for a decade...just waiting for the anti trust penalties to go away.

Two more months of silence then WALL TO WALL in your face Windows 8 , Server 2012 and Office 2013...the first true secure CLOUD based trifecta.

Windows 8 reminds me of Windows 95 and its dominance at the time.... new interface, stand alone product (thats where the beloved START menu came from) and much better performance over the 3.0 and 3.1 "shells installed after DOS"(which were successful in their own right especially 3.1 = Windows 7). Which all were much better than DOS = xp.... for those who lived through that time frame you know how 95 took over. Windows 8 is very similar almost 17 years later another 3rd generation improvement (Once again the START menu has changed)

I would expect Windows 9 and 10 (98,98se) to be better incrementally and minor in significance until the next big thing....Windows 11 (completely new kernel)?? which will bring something completely new like XP (NT 32-bit kernel) or 3.0(Usable 16-bit GUI )...those were the jumps from usable 16 to 32 bit. Vista should have been similar (Jump to usable 64 bit) yet tried to do too much at once...so it'll forever be bad mouthed and lumped in with Windows Me (wrongly as it was a decent OS).

That's the true MS cycle from one who lived through every release first hand.
I applaud Microsoft for being so very decisive in their new bold direction.