I think they've learnt from their mistakes and are improving things dramatically in Windows 10. 8.1 was leaps and bounds ahead of 8 (which was a disaster).
10 finally is a sensible direction that allows them to do what they want with mobile and give the desktop users are familiar experience out of the box.
98% of the time when using Windows 8.1 (or 8 for that matter) on the desktop you're in familiar territory anyway. They screwed up, yes, but they will recover, and the way Apple is going with software I'm interested to see how much of the tables will turn in the next few years.
I don't know about that. I ran 10 technical preview for about a month as a last ditch effort and it drove me to actually buy my first apple device ever when offered an upgrade from work. It was really just more of the same with a vista-esque start menu.
10 finally is a sensible direction that allows them to do what they want with mobile and give the desktop users are familiar experience out of the box.
98% of the time when using Windows 8.1 (or 8 for that matter) on the desktop you're in familiar territory anyway. They screwed up, yes, but they will recover, and the way Apple is going with software I'm interested to see how much of the tables will turn in the next few years.