Five reasons why Windows 8 has Apple and Google beaten. Microsoft will win the tablet war

TechRadar ^ | 10/28/2012 | By Jeremy Laird

[NVDave]

I don’t know.

The problem is that today, American corporate management is filled with people who are rent-seeking, risk-avoiding muppets. They just want to do their thing for a few years, polish their resume’ and then collect the big bucks.

Jobs was one of the rarest of CEO’s - someone who was willing to bet big and lose big. Someone who was willing to attach his face to ideas and take the heat for them, win or fail.

There’s so few CEO’s today who are willing to take on real risk that we’ve become a nation of corporate pussies.

[TheStickman]

Mac Mini was “hobbled”? In what way? My 2012 Mini has a i7 2.3 quad cpu in it. I have 8 gb of ram in it now & plan on going to 16 in the future.

Hobbled?

I use this little beast to run my music studio. Working in a 50+ track Pro Tools session now with VI’s and effects on every track & bus and my CPU usage is barely at 25%.

Hobbled? Methinks the writer of the article might also be calling the Obama economy a “booming success” as well. lol

[moviefan8]

Here is an update on his situation.

He cannot restore from Windows Backup. He used the backup program that came with Windows 7 instead of Ghost.

For some reason he cannot boot to the CD/DVD. Windows wouldn’t let him. This doesn’t make sense to me.

He is going back into town today to let Staples know and try to return the software. I don’t he can since he already opened it.

[avenir]

Yeah, that’s one UGLY interface.

Maybe the visual stylists and skinners will be able to do something with it.

[rlmorel]

I am always for more stability, and Microsoft showed they could improve that with Windows 7. It make XP look unstable by comparison, which in turn made ME and 95 appear REALLY unstable by comparison.

I just want to get Windows 7 implemented where I work. It would make a huge improvement in the performance of the applications I support, simply by allowing us to use more RAM.

I am not sure where that Windows 8 interface is going, though. I admire the pursuit of the concept of using the same code base for all their platforms, but I am not sure it is worth going in that direction for that. Basically, I see it as a dumbing down of the interface to achieve that.

But I concede that a yet to be invented input device system may yet revolutionize a touch based interface like Windows 8 or iOS and change the computing paradigm forever.