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| Authored by: stork on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 08:49 PM EST |
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| Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, March 06 2013 @ 04:38 AM EST |
for the OEMs. The end users got shafted.
Cheers,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 06 2013 @ 08:31 AM EST |
Windows was a great OS in the 90s, when ranked against the competition. It
was affordable for the home user, much easier for the non-techie to use than
the prevalent command line interfaces, and as a software developer took away
the really tricky stuff like device driver support and put it where it belongs,
in
the OS. Many things we take for granted today come from the
commoditisation that Windows brought to the industry. Meanwhile, the world
was competitive with many hungry companies competing for the customer,
and Windows gave a single, consistent UI to learn - successful software
followed the rules, and was easy to learn.
This was the era when MS still competed by trying to create better software,
than pursuing ever sharper business practices. I think they coasted through
the last decade on the memories of those of us who learned our trade in the
early 90s. Windows 8 is proving a real challenge to that mind set, it very
deliberately tries to kick the legacy customer into touch, offers a poor new
alternative as 'the only way', and is no longer a even following its own vision
but clearly trying to be a poor man's apple, yet priced higher with more
restrictive licenses - what a business model!
I happily jumped off Windows 3-4 years ago, and Win8 is simply bolting the
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 06 2013 @ 02:05 PM EST |
Answering my own question, other posters here seem to agree
Windows was not the best, but it was on most desktops.
Nobody suggested what was better than Windows, maybe
because that's a subjective measurement.
Which turns back to Peter Bright's argument that it doesn't matter
if Android is best, only the geeks wittering away here on the forums
care about such things. The luser in the street buys a phone for
the color of the case, the size of the screen, and maybe, just maybe,
if it has the right buttons for the right functions in the right place.*
They don't care much what OS runs it so long as it runs. So MWC
has turned into a great barbecue where the sizzle is sold and there
are no nutrition scientists analyzing the steaks.
* Does it work on my favorite network?
Only in the US do you have to answer dumb questions like that.
MWC = Mobile -World- Congress
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- What was better? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 07 2013 @ 05:53 PM EST
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