Windows 9 is actually revealed as Windows 10

[Corwin]

Sorry, but I wouldn't trust M$ as far as I could spit into a headwind while suffering an asthma attack!! If it's in THEIR best interests to keep it in the final version (even hidden and unannounced) then they will, and it probably is!!

 

[Humanity has risen!]

They wouldn't become it would mean guaranteed lawsuits. Microsoft is huge in the corporate world, where these need to keep a lot of sensitive data to themselves.

But it wouldn't surprise me if the OS kept even more data about your activities and sent them to Microsoft, although not a log of key presses. But maybe a lot of your local desktop searches with the consumer editions of Windows, like is the case with Ubuntu.

You can see how with Windows 8 they started to press you to always be logged on with your hotmail/outlook account, so they can track you more, and keep you in their walled gardens of vertically integrated services. So never log into Windows 8 and + with it.

Even if you can disable things like these through settings, the thing is that 99% of people never will.

 

[blatantninja]

Sorry, but I wouldn't trust M$ as far as I could spit into a headwind while suffering an asthma attack!! If it's in THEIR best interests to keep it in the final version (even hidden and unannounced) then they will, and it probably is!!

They didn't with Windows 8. I don't fully trust any company, but man this paranoia is shameful

 

[anakin57]

Put simply - looking at the screenshots - THAT is how Windows 8 should have looked. I'm actually excited; 8 was a disaster, but I'm used it now (don't have/use it as a touch screen).

 

[Couchpotato]

Seems Windows 10 will also update your computer differently then past versions.

Link - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/windows-10s-very-different-way-of-updating/

With Windows 10, the update approach is set to change substantially. Microsoft is acknowledging the need, and even desirability, of making regular incremental improvements to its operating system. It's also, however, acknowledging the different appetite for change between consumers and enterprise users. While all users, both enterprise and otherwise, will be using the same core operating system, for the first time, there will be different update policies for different kinds of user. The old fiction of not making feature changes to a shipping operating system is finally being put to bed.

Windows 10 will receive a steady stream of both feature updates and security updates. Security fixes will work the way they work today: published monthly, installed to most people's computers automatically. Feature updates, however, will have three different release speeds. At one end of the scale will be the consumer release: as soon as new features are available, they'll be distributed to users. This is how Windows will deliver continuous improvement the way platforms like Chrome OS and Windows Phone do already.

At the other end will be opting out of the feature updates entirely, for those situations where anything beyond a security fix isn't acceptable. This will be how Windows 10 handles mission-critical systems and environments where strict validation or certification are issues. It will also be the option for those organizations that don't want to risk introducing any unfamiliarity or interface changes.

There will also be an intermediate option—something that lets businesses keep up with new features but lets them control when those new features are rolled out, to ensure they won't disrupt business processes or otherwise happen at inopportune moments. Windows 10 will support mixed deployments, too, with different systems at different speeds. This will give admins a good opportunity to, for example, have a few machines running at the consumer pace and act as canaries for the rest of their organization, which might use the intermediate option for most machines and the "security fixes only" setting for some critical systems.