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Windows 9 will be an operating system you can love (will be aimed at desktops, not tablets)
CoDRmputer World ^ | 8/7/2014 | Preston Gralla

Posted on 08/08/2014 10:17:45 AM PDT by Signalman

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To: Minsc

The business world hasn’t accepted it largely because touch technology is not mainstream as of yet. For touch technology systems it is great.


81 posted on 08/08/2014 11:48:33 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Enlightened1
Wrong on every count ( or most counts?)

The desktop/laptop market is far from dead, and in fact, it's met with a recent uptick, to the point where the predictions are calling for way more than 300 million PCs to be sold in the next year.

Smartphones are meeting up with a wall, and it's called "saturation", in a market where the user has "matured" his/her needs, and found that, there really is no reason to keep purchasing a new smartphone every year or two. Tablets are in a funk, and they could go the way of the dinosaur in another couple of years, just like the netbook of the recent past.

With XP having lost support, there are expectations that a lot more PCs/desktops will be sold this year than in the recent past years. In fact, every time I go into a Best Buy or Tiger Direct, the traffic of purchasers is a lot bigger there for PCs than in the smartphones and tablets areas. The novelty for tablets may be meeting with an end, and that just means that, more people are opting for PCs. My son just purchased a Toshiba laptop with Win 8.1, and he never even considered a tablet or a Mac.

Windows machines sales may have slowed down in recent years,but again, that's attributable to people keeping their machines which are perfectly good for another few years,and could also be attributed to the slowdown in the economy.

Windows 8 has already sold close to 300 million licenses, which is not that drastically different from where Windows 7 was at the same period of time after it initial release.


82 posted on 08/08/2014 11:52:19 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: GraceG
The underpinnings of the OS worked fine, the interface was just intolerable....

It was the same for me, but then, I didn't have any expectations of the OS being a fully supportable and workable system.
83 posted on 08/08/2014 11:53:39 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: Signalman

Windows:

DOS6.22: AWESOME.

3.0: crap

3.1 sorta fair

3.11WFWG: good, but not anywhere near OS/2 WARP.

95: crap.

95 950B: sorta good, maybe...

98: better than 95, but really just 950B sommore... Ooh, look! a value pack!

98SE: better than 98, DOS 7.10 - AWESOME w/ LFN and DMA and FAT32

ME: crap. So utterly disappointing... DOS purposefully broken.

2000: good, but crap from virii, no drivers, no boot disk, no way to access NTFS if the system is dead w/o a test bench.

2000 SP3+: good, still no boot disk

XP: totally owned by virii, still no boot disk - Is a boot disk so hard? You know, with a boot disk and a cmdline anti-virus, I could have a leg up on all these bugs I get every_friggin_day...

XP SP2+: Good. REALLY good. Still no boot disk. It’s been like, a decade now... a boot disk would be nice one of these days...

Vista: good, but fat and meh. Still no boot disk. My scanner is a doorstop. So is my printer.

Win 7: REALLY good... holy crap! look! it’s got a boot disk! Not a very good boot disk though - One would think a file manager might be a good feature for a boot disk... Really? WTF good is a boot disk without a friggin file manager so I can get my crap off the stupid system? Oh, this is just disgusting... you did this on purpose, just to piss me off. What a crappy boot disk.

Win 8: crap. YOU SUCK.

Win 8.1 crap w/ sprinkles and a dusting of powdered sugar. I hate you.

Win 9: ?


84 posted on 08/08/2014 12:01:19 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: adorno

Oh okay and the desktop market is not saturated???

You are also assuming that everyone leaving their old Windows XP Desktops will not upgrade to a Laptop or Tablet.

You mentioned your son purchasing a desktop. I bet if you go to his school that most of his fellow students all have laptops, smart phones and tablets.

I don’t know who gave you that information about Desktops sales. Sorry but it made me laugh. Here is a highly respected firm that researches sales of PCs, Laptops, Tablets and Smart Phones.

Just scroll down to the graphs.

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24314413


85 posted on 08/08/2014 12:02:57 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: adorno

Here is a recent article from Forbes too. Predicting the next 3 years.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2013/09/12/idc-87-of-connected-devices-by-2017-will-be-tablets-and-smartphones/


86 posted on 08/08/2014 12:04:13 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: adorno
One more for you.

“CHART OF THE DAY: The Number Of Smartphones In Use Is About To Pass The Number Of PCs”

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-number-of-smartphones-tablets-and-pcs-2013-12

87 posted on 08/08/2014 12:05:47 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: adorno
When it comes to the complaints about the metro interface, those complainers aren’t smart enough to know that, Windows 8 can also work with the desktop interface, just like Windows 7.

With a little effort, W8 can be much better than W7. It is inherently faster. The Start screen is a feature, not a bug. Just uninstall the idiotic default "apps" and turn it into a customized start menu:



Other things like "god mode", Windows key + x, and applications folder make it powerful and accessible.


88 posted on 08/08/2014 12:08:25 PM PDT by 867V309 (Don't tread on me, bro)
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To: adorno

“Tablets to outsell PCs for the first time this year
Sales of tablets such as Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy are expected to outsell desktop computers for the first time this year.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9958851/Tablets-to-outsell-PCs-for-the-first-time-this-year.html


89 posted on 08/08/2014 12:09:40 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Laptops are not going away anytime soon.


90 posted on 08/08/2014 12:11:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Arkancide; Organic Panic
Don't dis DOS!

I LOVED DOS! The worst thing MS ever did was make the OS dependent upon the windowing system. Can you imagine NTCMD and all it can do if you could boot directly to it?

91 posted on 08/08/2014 12:14:38 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: dfwgator

I agree... See post #71


92 posted on 08/08/2014 12:16:13 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

I have a laptop and a tablet, but I rarely use the tablet.....I need a good keyboard, and tablets just don’t cut it.


93 posted on 08/08/2014 12:18:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I have both a Laptop and a Tablet. I use both equally.

I know what you mean about the keyboard. It took me some time to get use to it, but I’m comfortable with it now.


94 posted on 08/08/2014 12:21:09 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Signalman

Gee. Maybe they will get it right this time.


95 posted on 08/08/2014 12:25:36 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Signalman
Windows:

95: good

98: good

ME: crap

XP: good

Vista: crap

Win 7: good

Win 8: crap

Win 9: ?

I see a pattern developing here.

Mac OS X

10.0 Cheetah: Good

10.1 Puma: Pretty Good

10.2 Jaguar: Good

10.3 Panther: Good

10.4 Tiger: Good

10.5 Leopard: Good

10.6 Snow Leopard: Good

10.7 Lion: Good

10.8 Mountain Lion: Good

10.9 Mavericks: Very Good

10.10 Yosemite: Outstanding

The pattern here developed long ago...


96 posted on 08/08/2014 12:26:19 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot
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To: JRandomFreeper; PastorBooks

The only problem I had with configuring Mint was with getting Bluetooth to work properly (I have a set of Bluetooth headphones that I use so as to not subject family to the sounds of Talk Radio constantly).

There are a bunch of neat toys to install (by the way):

gpodder — allows me to automatically download and manage Levin podcasts (as well as others).

radiotray — nice and simple way to listen to Internet radio. Lightweight and simple.

copyq — a FANTASTIC clipboard manager that allows for tabbed storage of clips (so you can keep your ping list readily available, for example), as well as editing clips.

There are others, but those are the ones I use the most.


97 posted on 08/08/2014 12:27:04 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: Signalman

I presume that all of this can be yours for a low, low price! Right?

/s


98 posted on 08/08/2014 12:35:51 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: adorno

Thank you very much.

That was more answer than I expected, and probably more time than I should have taken from you.

Much appreciated, best Fregards to you.


99 posted on 08/08/2014 12:50:30 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Signalman
I remember CE ME NT

100 posted on 08/08/2014 1:02:49 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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