Posted on 12/22/2013 7:27:41 AM PST by upchuck
Well I had Windows 8, upgraded to Windows 8.1 and loved it.
Unfortunately I am too wedded to Ubuntu, so I promptly installed that, but by far I thought it the most pleasant Windows I have yet tried.
Don’t backslide too far Windows. I believe you’re on the right track.
The desktop interface should be standard for PC’s while the metro interface is used for tablets and phones.
Who is the guy who thought it would b a good idea to use it as a computer UI for a computer OS people have gotten to know over 20 years?
Microsoft puts up crap but makes up for it in volume. If I weren’t forced to install their garbage win 8 and overpriced office I wouldn’t touch any of their products. Microsoft puts out junk and they can get away with it because of their market domination.
Buddhists might call it "karma". The Bible refers to it as "the Wrath of God". Either way, it seems to be happening.
My hope is that MICROSOFT gets back onto the right track. The RT/Metro crap was, I think, the single biggest bad decision the M'soft has ever committed.
The desktop machine is NOT going away any time soon, and M'Soft OWNS the desktop. What the WORKING world needs is tablets that run full Microsoft Office applications....not "Apps".
Once upon a time, M'soft at least somewhat understood that they had to consider the installed base and not to leave those many millions behind. But M'soft has apparently been infected with the Apple virus which says "screw the installed base, we're changing things, and to hell with you".
There are probably hundreds of thousands of dedicated machines costing $100,000 and up which REQUIRE software that runs under Windows. THOSE end-users simply cannot "change things" at the drop of a marketing meme.
This is true to the point that there is actually a market for PC's with modern processors, video capabilities, etc. that will run older versions of Windows.
What M'soft needs to do for those applications and customers is to make available downloadable, legal, working versions of ANY of the older Microsoft operating systems that will run as virtual machines under the new OS, and can run the dedicated software that all that (irreplaceable) hardware requires.
I'll go one step further.....installation of a new OS should ask the question "Run old OS and applications as virtual machine?", and then if the answer is "Yes", AUTOMATICALLY set things up to do precisely that, transferring the old OS and software to do so.
This automatically removes ALL the pain of an OS switch, and allows the customer to make the transition as quickly or as slowly as he/she wishes.
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