I dunno... seems to me the business office is still going to be their main market for quite a while.
And let's see, Vista was Win-NT6.0. Windows 7 was supposed to be NT7.0, but the name got co-opted for the re-work of Vista that became Windows 7 (it's NT6.1). So, will Windows 8 be NT7? Or will they skip over 7 and go back in sync with NT8?
Read the whole Register article -- there's much more about the presumed feature set.
And to the rest -- No trolls, of any flavor, please. We've had quite enough of that stuff the past week. How about a nice sane discussion of technical merits, product positioning, and marketing strategy?
Thanks.
as usual, it will be vulnerable to cyber attacks.
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I’d settle for the damn things being able to install 30 programs, run 5 simultaneously, and not crash all the time. That should have been accomplished 10 or 15 years ago. All the fancy bells and whistles are totally useless when compared to reliability.
Any how about the simple feat of being able to copy a directory listing to the clipboard?
All of the leaked slides are discussed at the link below per your linked source. Very detailed discussions...
http://msftkitchen.com/2010/06/windows-8-plans-leaked-numerous-details-revealed.html
I know you want us to be serious, but somehow my feeble mind got a picture of Helen Thomas trying to logon using facial recognition ... and then I got an image of a computer puking its chips up until it eventually brought up the blue screen of death.
It will take some powerful good programming to accommodate that old hag.
Unless you have a black cat!
But my attitude towards my next computer has profoundly shifted lately. My next computer will be a large, pimped out desktop machine. But my laptop will become a smartphone, like a Dell Streak. Smartphones are much more portable than the laptop, portable enough that I will actually take it places. The smartphones are not as powerful as the laptops, but most won't care. It will do most jobs well enough. And on the desktop side, since I won't be taking it anywhere, I might as well make it a server, not just putting my laptop on a desk. So my computing power will be split between the big and the very small.
That I think is the coming market space in a nutshell, very big, and very small, with a growing gap in between. The race is on to develop that small mobile computer market space. Apple, Google via android, and Microsoft will be the players. And don't scoff at Microsoft being in last place, they tend to be last in every new thing, but they will end up getting things right eventually.
Another racket to force people to upgrade in a year or two and pay big bucks again.
Let me guess; it reboots the computer under Ubuntu.
Cheers!
It will be user friendly, bright, colorful and as secure as a slice of Swiss cheese.
My cat won't let me log on.
Something I want to see from a Win slate is a move away from the computer-as-parasite model that Apple’s pushing. I love my Macs (and run four different OSes on pretty much a daily basis on my various machines—I’m no zealot.) But, I hate the closed-box model of the iPad and iPhone. A full-up filesystem-based commercial OS on popular, competitive slate would be a good thing for everyone.
Kudos to Microsoft for finding a way to address the lack of discipline by Windows app developers!
I know for a fact that much of my Mac code is devoted to immediately disposing of all used local memory before I move on to the next operation. Some MS "developers" seem to feel that that same discipline infringes on their individual "freedoms" -- or something.
If MS has figured out how to handle that accumulation of laziness at the OS level -- good move!