Now I'm going to have to open the door if I want to see what the weather is like outside.
I’m still using Windows 2000 Professional on my desktop. Works great.
Windows ME rocks! Wait, what?
Given Windows 8 I’m inclined to agree; but I think they can save themselves... instead of focusing on the whiz-bang UI and trying to follow the mobile crowd, bucking that trend and instead focusing on ensuring correct and stable products.
Yeeahhh, I've been reading that prediction every year since 1980...
True or not, it’s hard to believe the messenger.
This guy, Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols, is a putz and has been a Windows hater for decades.
I use Windows 7 on my laptop. I have never had a problem. It’s fast and it’s a helluva lot easier to do prep for my teaching than it would be on my tablet or droid phone. I don’t see anyone claiming Apple PCs and Laptops are doomed. Tell Microsoft to fine tune Windows 7. Basically it works fine.
The Windows 8 interface - apparently licensed from McDonald’s cash register system - is a failure? How do you explain all the Happy Meal sales? Hmmmm?
Ummmm. No.
While I would happily jump on the "I hate Microsoft" bandwagon - it's pretty obvious the reason PC shipments have collapsed has nothing to do with Microsoft.
Try blaming laptops, smart phones and tablets. Especially tablets.
End of an age of fascist waste, perhaps, but not the end of the personal computer for technically inclined people.
Parallella: The $99 Linux supercomputer
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3008521/posts
“Windows: It’s over, tech site declares”
Written in 1993,95,98,2000,2001,2004,2006,2006,2010,2011,2012.
I’m sure on either a Mac or some Linux variant.
Only the anti-Palin people approaches this level of derangement and haven’t resorted to putting a shotgun in their mouths to prove their nuttiness.
The problem isn’t Windows 8, the problem is people that are unwilling to change with the times.
(essentially what a FReeper said to me over the weekend - I told him what body part of mine to suck on)
Even with the slump the industry is on pace to sell over 300 million PCs this year. I wanna be in a “failing” industry selling one unit to every man woman and child in the country every year... oh wait I am, sort of (software actually, but we like PC sales).
Windows 8 sucks. I got in a laptop without a touchscreen. Had it had a touchscreen it might have been useful.
For the vast majority of PC users, a tablet would suit their needs fine. Casual browsing, a quick note or comment to a facebook friend, reading emails.. tablets are just fine and more convenient.
The PCs from 3 or 4 years ago are still “good enough”.
I like Windows 8 a lot. It took me a couple of days to train myself, but now I hate going back. ....i am a developer and have to term into XP and windows 7 boxes. I have also worked on Macs.
win 8 is my favorite.
This guy is an idiot. You know what they aren’t counting into this #? Tablets that run windows 8. Duh...that’s the market they are trying to move into.
I like windows. I’m looking out one right now. And until they find a way to modify my eyeballs and shrink my fingers, I’ll keep my PC too.