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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 12:22 PM EST |
Steve Ballmer must be proud. ;-)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 03:59 PM EST |
Win8 is finally taking M$ to the heights they should have reached years ago,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 04:13 PM EST |
It also inherits from the Windows Phone an incompatibility with mail servers
that aren't using certificates that have been purchased (forgive me, I don't
know the exact term for this). This isn't a problem with iPhone/iPad or Android
or Blackberry based devices; those can elect to ignore certificate errors. You
can get around it by downloading a self-signed certificate on the device, but
the device does not make this easy... it's not easy to deploy them without
certificates.
It may not sound like much to those who use the email servers of large companies
(like wal-mart) or mail services (gmail) but many small companies with thin IT
budgets don't want to buy a certificate so the one guy with a Surface can
connect to the Exchange server. I've seen a few get returned and numerous guys
discouraged from buying them, just like what happened with the Windows Phones.
You could argue it's not logical, efficient, etc; but I know a lot folks with
razor thin budgets who rely heavily on security through other means, and so will
not justify the cost of a certificate, and this leads to the effects I said
above.
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| Authored by: UncleVom on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 08:04 PM EST |
My somewhat subjective observations dealing with desktops and laptops in the
SOHO landscape.
Most operating systems are single license and come pre-installed with hardware.
Vista had an advantage, it's launch coincided with the need to replace aging
hardware.
A lot of machines running XP were way past the "Best Before" date.
Despite the bad press for Vista many people couldn't wait any longer.
I'm not seeing the same case for Windows 8.
Most later XP, Vista and Windows 7 boxes are reliable compared with the machines
from the Age of the Bad Capacitor, are plenty fast enough for most people's
needs and run the software they want to run, so why upgrade?
This is also why I think desktop and laptop sales are flat and people and
companies can afford trinkets like tablets.
The tablet didn't kill the desktop, satisfaction with what people already had
did, this same satisfaction is stagnating the main source of Windows sales, new
hardware.
If Windows 8 was ground breaking and required new hardware, it might have driven
more sales. It wasn't and didn't.
That said Windows 8 isn't bad, in fact once you install Classic Shell it's
almost as good as Windows 7.
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