Posted on 03/05/2013 8:24:48 AM PST by ShadowAce
Apple is going to start coming up against this as well.....The stuff they build now will be “good enough” for years....10 years ago, things changed so quickly and new value was indeed added with each upgrade....Now, not so much.
I can think of one reason: Steve Ballmer
Last night I saw a commercial where they actually had to explain how to use Win8. I knew then, it was over.
I don’t really have a dog in the fight, but I’ve been to a local mall twice in the last 3 months.
The Apple store looks like a Nike shoe riot, and the loneliest guy in town is the fellow running the Microsoft Surface kiosk.
When you starting airing commercials saying that Best Buy Blue Shirts like it, it’s gotta be awful
The power of marketing.
This entire idea that you can build an OS on a desktop, then port it to a mobile device, is a failure.
Whether they like it or not, a desktop computer and a mobile device serve different functions. Sure, some are the same, like email for instance.
But as far as powerful CPU speeds, memory, and high end display, a desktop is a desktop, a mobile device is a toy.
I decide to buy a new laptop recently before they all had secure boot, and it came with winblows 8, and boy does it suck big time. With Secure Boot turned off in bios, No matter what I tried it would not let me install Linux, or a different version of winblows. I Took it back and exchanged for one with Win7, formatted and installed Ubuntu. Screw Winblows.
How bad do you have it?
exactly...
And BTW, I love Windows 7..and I love having a desktop at home as well as my wife and I iPhones and a iPad..
I like using a mouse.. I like storing things to folders, extra hardrives ...etc... I find that quite easy on Windows 7 which was a godsend after Windows XP.
If we are sitting at the TV, we use a cellphone or an iPad to check headlines... but I still love going to the other room to sit at the computer... I suppose that’s old school.
Exactly.
Recently, I had to buy a new laptop. I was out of town and my Vaio died. At the store, I was confronted by a myriad of new laptops. The salesperson showed me Windows 8. It looked like my smart phone.
I already have a smart phone. I already have a tablet.
I want a computer.
I bought one of only two laptops left in the store with Windows 7, and haven’t regretted my decision.
Not only do I hate the new way of doing things in widows 8, but I can’t get firefox to work with it without crashing all the time. And I hate all the other browsers.
I think it’s too many new OSes too soon. Only serious tech dweebs upgrade the OS on a machine that’s already working, new OSes are for new machines. As the technology jumps slow down people hold onto PCs longer new OSes will take longer to get traction.
It's a liberal cesspool of pro-death, pro-fascism, pro-Obama maggots that believe they own your hardware.
If you have to use Windows 8 on a desktop, take a few minutes to learn some keyboard shortcuts like WIN+X, and you’ll need the old standby, ALT+F4 to close a window.
Just a few of these will help you maintain your sanity.
It’s okay if you run it on a tablet or phone, but it really sucks on a something without a touchscreen. XP is about as far as I go with windows, because the OS’s keep “obsolete-ing” the motion control and CAD/CAM software that I run.
Just took delivery of a new toshiba laptop a couple days ago, first new comp since early vista. My initial impression of W8 was, this really sux. After a few days my opinion hasnt changed
lol!
They never quit, don’t they?
Keep telling the same “it’s failed” story in hopes someone other than the loons buy it.
meanwhile, its usage keeps going up.
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