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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I like XP, if I could buy one of those quad-core, multi-gigabite machines w/ XP pro I'd be a happy camper.
Regards,
GtG
I work at a desk all day. I utterly despise touch screen typing, it slows me down big-time, and I need a good screen to see details of numbers, calculations and formulas in Excel. Touchscreen sucks for that application. I don’t even want to use a touch screen to write a paragraph as short as this. Tablets are OK for some non-work applications, but not for the work and style of computing that I use. I don’t even like laptops for largely the same reasons. I hope somebody makes a PC for the likes of me.
Heck, I use a USB keyboard because I hate laptop-keyboards.
Yeah. I don't get all the hysteria about Windows operating systems.
Windows 8 is awful! Its not intuitve. It’s a disaster!
I am not going to debug a database application on my phone or ipad.
Idiots.
There’s two things about that image that I cannot get past.
I keep my desktop very uncluttered so that I can see my desktop background.
These giant boxes blocking everything would infuriate me.
I also find the stacked boxes difficult to focus on when I do try to read them.
I just hadto replace a really old computer that wasn’t cutting it anymore. Stuck with Windows 8, and it’s terrible. I need to know how to disable the apps careen so it just goes to the desktop
The right side menu will suddenly pop out for no reason and then go to the start screen. And all the time my cursor will be in the middle of the screen! The nerd at ZBest Buy says that Windows released a fix for it months ago but my updates are all current and it STILL does it. It’s aggravating.
“Windows 8 is awful! Its not intuitve. It’s a disaster!”
It also flew both planes into the WTC and may have planted the bombs in Boston. Dont forget that it worked part-time for Kermit Gosling.
However, once you take the time to learn it, you find out that all of those exaggerations are completely baseless.
Then it's over.
Those of you still using Windows XP keep in mind that Security Updates for it end next year as “Extended Support” ends. Be sure at the very least to use an alternative web browser if you continue to use XP after that. Consider http://www.sandboxie.com/ with it for an extra layer of security. I’d not do things like email and personal banking from an OS that cannot be maintained for security updates however.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycle
LOL - Sales are down 14% in the worst economy since the Great Depression? There are segments of the economy that would kill for only a 14% drop in sales.
That’s an exaggerated comparison. On Windows 8 laptop, I’ve got programs I use most pinned to the toolbar for 1 click access, and the rest are shortcuts on the desktop that can be accessed in 2 clicks from the Desktop list. I never use the flashy tablet view and find it annoying when I have to go there. However, overall I prefer Windows 8 to Windows Vista.
That said, MS is being shrewd in preparing an OS for the future and that will run Office.
If you drag the desktop icon to the top left position using the mouse, you can get to the desktop by simply pressing the enter key.
That is fine if you stay off the internet unless you are running very sophisticated anti-virus and anti-malware software. Microsoft doesn’t support that OS. Your first line of defense is Windows Updates and you will get none for that. They are soon to not support XP. You have to be upstream from that.
My understanding is that Microsoft is down to only a half BILLION users.
We all should be so unsuccessful.
You just neatly illustrated the tremendous suckage of metro’s jumble of crap versus the logical arrangement inherent to a cascading menu.
Thank you very much.
Yes, I know: You were trying to do the exact opposite of what you actually did.
Pity.
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