PLEASE READ DESCRIPTIONbr br The new version of windows is scheduled to be released some time "later in 2015", but how will it stack up against Windows 7 and 8.1? Personally, I think it will be a great improvement, especially since Microsoft is bringing back the start menu, though slightly different than what we're used to from Windows 7 and earlier. It's more of a hybrid; a start menu with tiles, which actually looks ok to me.