Windows 9

Looks like Windows 9 will ship April 2015 to cover the crap that Windows 8 is. Hopefully they fix the hell out of 8 or Windows will be all but dead and so will the traditional PC market as tablets (read that iPad and Android not Windows tablets) take over.  I can do almost everything I need to on my iPad and it's only going to get better as the cloud becomes better. 

In the meantime, Windows 7 is still going strong so buy a PC with that on it instead.