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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 06:43 PM EST |
Suggestion to MS:
Instead of continuing to resort to your old
ways:
- Limiting the hardware that one could use with Windows 8 (note: this is
speculation based on what MS did to the netbook)
- Forcing vendors to
enter commitments that meant they weren't allowed to build a competing device
with enhanced functionality above the windows counterpart
Why don't
you try:
Actually building a decent product that will compete fairly in the
market
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 07:18 PM EST |
The article seems to ignore the possibility that windowz 8 -helped- the decline
of PC sales. Which (or witch) should not surprise anyone.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 07:30 PM EST |
Net Applications found that in December only 1.7 percent of
desktops, notebooks, and laptops
using the Web used Windows 8. netmarketshare
don't have a listing for
Win8, meaning it's among others, less than
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 15 2013 @ 12:24 AM EST |
At work, we are still using XP PCs...but go, try to give away an old PC...it's
hard to do. At least in the US, everyone who needs a desktop already has
one....economic rent can be charged for laptops, netbooks, tablets, and
phones. And maybe a flat touchscreen
But underneath all of this is that moore's law has lead to absolutely
miraculous amounts of computing fitting into tiny packages...so the human
I/O devices are the dominant hardware feature.
(Christenson)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 15 2013 @ 08:50 AM EST |
I have noticed that anybody that has a tablet or smart phone
prefers to play with that instead of doing anything else if
there is nothing else that they have to do. I think that
this has had the biggest impact on desktop and laptop sales.
Think about it. Most people have considered the computer
as an entertainment device rather than as a computational
device or tool. Now, tablets and smartphones provide can
provide that entertainment anywhere, anytime without being
tied to a desk or a cumbersome, awkward laptop.
It's like when cars started to replace horses as means
of personal transportation. As a whole, people prefer
convenience over other things.
Of course, I could be wrong. Perhaps people just got tired
of all that horse pucky that M$ kept foisting on them and
decided that they didn't want anymore of it.
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, January 15 2013 @ 08:52 AM EST |
Most articles you read adopt the Microsoft promoted meme
that blames the
failure of Windows 8 on the trend of
consumers switching to tablets and
phones.
This is exactly what I wanted to
say
about that, only said much better than I could
have...
Now we learn that for the first time in five years
PC sales
are below the previous year’s levels, and falling.
While much
of this is because people are turning to tablets
that do indeed benefit from an
OS like Windows 8, we have to
conclude that the new Windows itself has
contributed to the
downturn.
I have written about this before, but
cannot emphasize it
enough: Windows 8 is not suited for the desktop. For one
thing, it is designed for a touch screen, which almost
nobody uses on a
desktop setup.
What's worse, it emphasizes full-screen applications
with no
"windowing" capability. That is, if you have a couple of 27-
inch
monitors with plenty of screen real estate to play
with, an application will
fill up one of the monitors
completely with no way to scale it down. This is
awkward, to
say the least.
The OS has the same underlying kernel as
Windows 7. While
you can easily get to a Windows 7-like, old-fashioned
desktop, the product wants you to go to the huge tiles of
its ersatz Start
page, originally called the "Metro"
interface.
Microsoft has to patch
Windows to disable this tiled
interface. Just have it boot to a normal desktop
rather than
what amounts to a useless splash page.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 08:38 AM EST |
You can't live your life without seeing Windows 8 and surface tablets all over
the soulless media. I went to the mall the other day and it was absurd at how
much Microsoft garbage was plastered in front of me everywhere I turned. It was
so bad they even had a big giant grey sign that only had "Microsoft
Surface" written on it hanging from the ceiling.
They managed to wrangle the lead in game consoles by losing money hand over
fist, so maybe thats the play here as well. We just don't appreciate the Zapp
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