Posted on 04/16/2013 1:12:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.
PC shipments collapsed in the last quarter by almost 14 percent, analysts with IDC said last week, marking the biggest drop in sales since the firm started tracking them 19 years ago. The problem, said ZDNet’s well respected Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols, isn’t the designs from the likes of HP and Dell or the size of consumer’s wallets. It’s Microsoft.
“Look at the numbers: Metro-interface operating systems have already failed,” Vaughn-Nichols wrote in an essay on the site. “Microsoft is betting all its chips on the silly notion that Metro will be the one true interface for its entire PC and device line.”
“Idiots,” he wrote. …
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win 8 is AWFUL
“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.”
Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
Sorry, that was funny.
I was being sarcastic
W8 is fustercluck. It seems that every new MS OS closes the window (no pun intended) to customizing your PC for your own preferences. Things get moved around, ostensibly to make things "easier", but it looks like they just bury them deeper and that makes them harder.
I like the idea of a virtual desktop and treat my PC as such. I start with a clean desktop (with a nice wallpaper), just the Recycle Bin on it. I then either open apps or folders (Windows Explorer, etc.) from the Start menu or the Quickstart bar, where I keep my most commonly used apps - but not too many as to make it too crowded and therefor useless).
I don't have a smart-phone (I have no use for one - just a "regular" phone for me), so I don't care that W8 looks like a cellphone. I don't even like the look of it, TBH.
I suspect I'll be moving on to the PS4 when it comes out, as I can do almost everything there that I do on this (XP) PC, and it will be much cheaper than buying a whole new PC, along with all the setup it takes (ripping out all the bloatware and installing my own apps). What I can't do on the PS4, I'll suck it up and use my wife's laptop.
Wait a second, are you saying this 14% drop is only counting desktops?
If that's the case then this is an overcooked goose of a story.
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I know, right? But the article sez....
PC shipments collapsed in the last quarter by almost 14 percent
I sez they should be lucky its ONLY 14 percent.
>>The Windows 8 interface - apparently licensed from McDonald’s cash register system
LOL!! That’s where I’ve seen that interface before.
I’m willing to change with the times when the change is better and not change for change’s sake.
Righto, I haven’t used a desktop in 15 years, and I can’t imagine why anyone would.
I usually run it hooked up to two large monitors, plus the notebook screen, and a keyboard and mouse. But why wouldn’t I want to be able to take it with me if I want to?
Windows 8 is not that hard.
I despised it for about a day.
I’m certainly not going to purchase a 1600 dollar Mac because I think I can’t handle the new start menu. Especially when there is a fix for it.
Have you dealt with Windows 8? They changed the interface so much that I had to look up on the Internet just how to turn it off!
People that exagerate to make some point in their agenda can’t be trusted
I figured.
If it’s desktops only, I’m waiting for the 70% decline!!
It’s the whole moving the mouse cursor to the bottom right that’s the problem. Who the heck knows to move it there? But once you know it, it becomes intuitive.
Microsoft has a phone, such as it is.
Thought they had a tablet, too, or did I dream that weird scene with the cast of Glee doing some weird en masse synchronized thing while clicking keyboards, lol?
HA! Another XP hold out. Glad I’m not the only one.
I always thought PC was a generic term for laptop and desktop....
>> ...and instead focusing on ensuring correct and stable products.
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> What?!? You think Microsoft would ever willingly go down that road?
The question of ‘willingness’ will become moot if they squander away all their resources with flops and it will become a matter of “do or Die”.
As to willingness, I would submit that they’ve toed at that a little bit, pulling Anders Hejlsberg to do C#/DOTNET was a little bit of that — unfortunately they stuck with the popular C-ish syntax (and its inherent flaws, some caught at compile-time) sticking it as their flagship rather than designing for correctness — mitigated, a little, by trying to make the DOTNET-platform usable for “any language.”
Then there was a project for detecting/eliminating buffer overflows in the codebase — though if they’d used something like Ada with it’s superb checking facilities [it’s possible for the compiler to statically determine if a check is unneeded], they wouldn’t have needed this tool/project at all — I’m sorry but I don’t have a link to the paper there, just recently came across it.
That's what the internet is for.
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