Todd wrote:

Is M$ skipping Son-of-Frankenstein (Windows 9) and going
directly to Grandson-of-Frankenstein (Windows 10)?


Was this just a typo?
http://www.infoworld.com/article/268...ows/microsoft-
windows-165000-first-look-windows-10.html

Nope. Not a typo. Marketing. To sell you another bottle of snake oil
to make up for all those bottles that didn't sell.

The PR hype for 10 reads very much like the Vista release of years ago.
New name to reflect a totally new "from the ground up" OS. Right.
Microsoft has never done anything from the "ground up." It costs too
much. Takes too long. Easier, quicker to cut and paste. Microsoft is
a copycat, not an innovator. (And at worse, thieves.) They see what's
selling, and jump on the band wagon, but are always a couple years late
and a dollar short.

Since 8 was the New Vista, hopefully, 10 will be the new 7, but I doubt
it.


Stef