I use a Surface Pro Tablet PC....love Windows 8.1 for touch and desktop use.
Maybe I can educate some of you about business:
Microsoft (and most everyone else) knows that tablets, smartphones and other devices are the future.
Microsoft also knows how reluctant people are to learn new things (just read any thread about Windows 8/8.1)
So, Microsoft is trying to converge the user experience of your smartphone, PC, tablet, Xbox, etc. into something similar and familiar.
That is long-term thinking that neither Apple nor Google have.
That is long-term thinking that neither Apple nor Google have.
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The Linux guys thought of it 3 years before Microsoft, and encountered the same type of resistance.
In other words, Microsoft copied other computer innovators but didn’t bother to learn from the mistakes the innovators made.
I’m a solid Windows guy myself, loved XP, now love Windows 7, but Win8 was a bridge too far. Too bad you have to chuck the Metro GUI to get any decent value with the OS.
Maybe I can educate some of you about Microsoft: Sales of their mobile platforms are lagging, so they thought goofing up the non-mobile gui would help.
But it’s really not a problem with Classic Shell, and the underlying OS is excellent.