Windows 8 will be just like Vista was. The proper Windows will be the one after Win8, just like Win7 was after Vista.
This.
i'm likely to be using Win7 for a long time to come mostly because i've come to like it and have gotten used to it. i can game and use trainers to my hearts content on it.
and as a matter of habit i don't rush into things. i like to see how they play out over time and then decide.
as someone wise once said: 'don't fix something that's not broken'.
1. Windows users adopt Windows 8 enthusiastically. (“Wall Street analysts short Apple’s stock, declaring the era of iEverything over.”)
2. Windows users cling to Windows 7 tenaciously. (“Windows 8 becomes the new Vista.”)
3. Windows collapses. (“Microsoft survives as a fragment selling Office and some server software.”)
I'll put money on scenario 2, personally.
Yea I wouldn't put any money on 3.
The only alternative is Apple products and I'd rather just stick with a messed up Windows OS instead.
Yeah, but sticking with Windows 7 is what #2 is about, which is why it's the most likely. Similar to people sticking with XP instead of upgrading to Vista. Windows 7 is an example of a great OS. Vista and Windows 8... well, to put it politely, not so much.
Scenario 1 is the one you don't want to put any money on.