Yes well I just found this http://www.geek.com/tag/windows-9/ so it leaves me thinking where this is all leading to?? I do hope it isn't all about that cloud stuff and what is going to happen to the OS's we have now?? Its getting so hard to keep up with it all.:arg:

I personally have no interest in any type of cloud OS. It just doesn't fit in with what I want to do on a PC. It will be interesting to see what comes with (or doesn't come with) Windows 9.

Yes whatever happened to just having a Google on some interesting stuff?

Well my upgrades from 7 to 8.1 on one of the laptops and one of the deskys went as smooth as, but I reckon we hear more of the horror stories than we do the good ones because simply there has been no problems.
All the same I wish they wouldn't keep switching it about so often it does get rather monotonous.

I think a lot of problems stem from updating. A clean install of the new OS is less problematic. A Guy

I'll take a clean install over an in place upgrade any day of the week. The problem is even if you want to do that, and know how, you can face one big road block, namely install media. If you have a PC with Windows 8/8.1 pre installed by manufacturer you don't usually have any disks and the best you can hope for is to make recovery media. Microsoft won't sell you just the DVD, and the only legit download around from them requires a Retail key to get the files. If your OEM PC came with Windows 8 your stuck with refreshing 8 and updating to 8.1 though the store. Not an ideal situation if you ask me. If the store update has issues then it's a wash, rinse, and repeat, type of scenario until you get it right. The hidden OEM embedded keys add another wrinkle to it to. They are not making it easy for the average Joe to do it so it shouldn't be a big surprise when you see people being reluctant to try it.