Windows 9 release Date?

Now I'm sure that I'm NOT using the "Modern" interface.

Well, I just experienced this annoyance:

I'm reading an explanation on Internet about Settings in Windows 8.1.

So I open the Settings Windows in Windows 8.1 in order to view them at the same time as the webpage I'm visiting. No way. PC Settings will open Full Screen.

And I have no clue how to get both things next to each other.

Thank you

I thought I already did that (meaning I was looking into a nice landscape on my desktop instead of having my nose against the wall)

But I will check it again. At one point I did a full restore from the shop's original installation, because MS had "hijacked"(*) my user account, just because I visited their website with free stuff for Windows 8.1. There I was hoping to find a version of Solitaire that would look a bit OK.

Since I had the choice of playing Solitaire in full screen (on a 27" display › not nice) or in a vertical way (on its side like if it were for crabs), so it became playing Solitaire on Windows 7 or Windows Vista when I'm online. I find Solitaire very relaxing while waiting for something or when I need to think out of (my) box. But it should be in a windowed mode, so that I can still see what is going on in another window.

(*) well that's how it felt and I didn't like it at all and I didn't find any other solution than to restore the original stuff. And of course I lost everything I customized.

And maybe I didn't adapt it again (it has been a few months now since I plugged in that PC)

One more thing

May Windows 9 be highly customizable!

I guess 90% of the computer users on earth are having Windows (I have no clue) and the rest are using Mac and Linux.

So Microsoft has a responsibility being the only company "determining" how Windows will be. 

One version cannot fit everybody, that's why it should be a very customizable version.

Imagine there would only be 3 sorts of houses. 

That would not be enough, unless they would be fully adaptable. 

So that everybody can "find shoes for his/her feet"

Thank you for the links.

I already had followed and applied those instructions from how to geek (Look an Feel Windows 7).

But still is not enough for me.

I will try that ClassicShell stuff.

That could be the solution for me, I really hope it.