Posted on 04/20/2015 1:33:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Buried in the question-and-answer section of AMD’s earnings call this past Friday was an interesting note on the release timing of Windows 10. According to AMD CEO Lisa Su, Windows 10 should be released in late July.
In response to a question regarding its channel inventory, Su said the following:
What we also are factoring in is, you know, with the Windows 10 launch at the end of July, we are watching sort of the impact of that on the back-to-school season, and expect that it might have a bit of a delay to the normal back-to-school season inventory build-up.
TechCrunch reached out to Microsoft for comment on the supposed release date.The company has yet to respond. It’s worth noting, as GeekWire pointed out this morning, Microsoft has said that Windows 10 will be released this summer. Now we have a firmer release date to expect.
Microsoft has been coy on a public, hard release date for Windows 10 as there is little upside in providing one. It likely doesn’t drive demand to have a public final date set so far in advance, and having any such benchmark would create another trip point for the software company to miss. And if you miss what amounts to little more than a synthetic deadline, you don’t gain much other than a news cycle that frets about what has gone wrong.
Windows 10 is Microsoft’s attempt to build a single operating system that can function across all computing form factors, from embedded chips, to smartphones and tablets, all the way through to PCs and even larger screens.
If Windows 10 fails to attract a large cadre of users quickly, it could miss its chance to attract developers, crippling its application store. To combat that, Microsoft is providing free upgrades to Windows 10 for Windows 7, 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 users.
The “end of July” is about 102 days away. That’s just over three months. Can Microsoft pull it off?
I know people who’ve had the chance to play with developer prerelease packs. They say it’s literally a game changer.
Time will tell...
You got that right the guts of 8 was fine but the metro gui.was total total total CRAP!..
People rag on Windows 8 because they are too feakin' stupid to install a start button. And even worse. They are so stupid they won't ask someone to do it for them if they do not know how to do a download and install
Windows 8 is great!!! I use Start8 too for the start button. I never use stupid tiles or "apps" or see the start screen. I do exactly the same as you for laptops and desktops
I like the Windows 8 GUI more than Windows 7. Obviously all the Windows 8 tiles etc are for touch screen devices such as tablets, phones, Surface Pro and so on and other laptops that incorporate touch screen
The Windows 8 Metro GUI is neither here nor there. Did you install a start button or are you just complaining for the sake of complaining?
You have wasted 80 words. Please tell me how Windows 8 sucks after you install a 3rd party start button which also restores ye ol familiar desktop? I really want to know.
I can’t find a thing wrong with 8 after installing a start button. Please tell me what you don’t like.
You have this right. Microsoft went to the flat look GUI on Windows 8 because it uses less system resources than the Aero look you get on Windows 7. Now you have enough juice on a desktop or laptop to run Aero with nearly zero problems. But on the smaller devices you mention it is a problem.
So for the sake of a uniform GUI experience across the board (meaning mobile devices/laptops/desktops) Microsoft went for the flat look in Windows 8. Which is also why the start button and old desktop was gotten rid of but that was unnecessary and went too far. A very stupid and stubborn decision. 8.1 still does not have a legitimate start button......
So I install Start8. How much IQ does that take????
Ah, Dennis my FRiend, you missed the entire point of my post. You and I are saying the same damn thing.
I said, Windows 8 is a fine operating system, with a terrible UI. The Start button, Start Menu, and desktop are the most critical components of the Windows XP, Vista, and 7 UI for most Windows users. Microsoft not only removed the Start Button and Menu from 8, they force you to install an additional 3rd party software package just to even get the damn BUTTON, and (depending on what package you install), you still don't necessarily get back the Start Menu of the earlier releases.
Now pay close attention.
I said: Win8 is a fine OS, but the UI lacks a Start Button.Got it?You said: Win8 is a fine OS, but the UI lacks a Start Button.
Most Windows users are either:
They SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Microsoft screwed the pooch, and their own customers, with Metro.
Even Microsoft has accepted this, and are correcting it. Surely you can do the same. :)
I don't mean to sound testy. It's just that as a System Administrator, with front-office users who are frustrated by the Win 8 UI every day, I am very sensitized to the pointless waste of productivity that Microsoft inflicted on Corporate America with Metro.
It's not about Windows 8 as an OS. It's a fine OS.
With a User Interface from Hell, when it's on a desktop or laptop.
On a phone, Metro works fine. I actually rather like it... on a phone. On a desktop, I want to throw the damn thing through a wall after 5 minutes.
You see, not everyone is in a position to install things that fix Microsoft's egregious errors. Some of us have to live with them.
The distillation is that home users are too dumb to install a start button while those business and corporate users are not allowed to...not on an individual basis
What is stopping any business from installing a windows 8 start button system wide?
The point of the complaint is that neither users nor SysAdmins should have to add something so basic as the Start Button (and Menu) to a user interface that has been around for nearly two decades with those features.
The features were universally accepted, universally recognized, and depended-upon by nearly every Windows user in the world -- billions of them.
The features were removed because of a stupid error, likely made by a stupid committee, and driven home by a stupid focus group in an echo chamber.
Look at it this way:
Let's say you have purchased and driven automobiles for 20 years. Every time you bought a car, it came with 4 wheels mounted, tires mounted on the wheels, and the correct air pressure in each tire.
One day you go to your car dealer for a new car. He sells it to you, but when you take delivery, there are no wheels, no tires, no air pressure.
You complain, "I can't drive this car. Where are the wheels, the tires, the air pressure???"
The dealer says, "We decided that the car looks better without wheels and tires. If you want them, you can get them yourself. What, are you too dumb to go to the store a mile away and buy wheels and tires, have the tires mounted on the wheels, and have them inflated to the proper pressure? That's not rocket science. What is stopping you from getting your own wheels and tires, and inflating them?"
That is what your comment comes across as.
The point is, Windows users should not have to construct their own damn user interface. The one that has served for 20 years is perfectly fine. There was no reason to remove it. Microsoft blew it. And that's why people say Windows 8 sucks... it's not the OS, it's the user interface, terribly broken by design, for no good reason.
Wow, dayglored, I never realized what an ass your are. Please remove me from your Windows ping list.
^This^
I still have my install discs.
A business will mod and tweak a bit the Windows edition it installs for lets say 300 desktop computers sitting in one building. So one of these mods is to include a start button for Windows 8 such as classic shell or start 8. I fail to see how this is a problem. The only problem is a lack of common sense.
Done.
...I have a real hard time with any software that tries to "force me" to do it their way.....the box the program are to be the servant not the master..
Don't worry about it. My opinion as a user, developer, and administrator of Windows for 30 years, about whether Microsoft erred on the Win8 UI, is just my opinion. Microsoft's hundreds of millions of customers are the ones whose opinions really matter.
Let's all look forward to Windows 10, which is the subject of this thread anyway. Win 10 promises to be a lot better, in pretty much every respect.
Have a great day!
let me put a different way I don’t have time for an OS looks like it was designed for Coco the Chimp ..
LOL, correction. “Almost 30 years” — release 2, not release 1. Oh well! :)
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