Win 8, T12: the positive thread

[pdkoester]

I'm afraid you are missing the strategic point. MS and its CEO tell us they are going to retire the classic desktop. It's legacy mode for them already. And with this they are abandoning the classic way of creating and using application software. Analysts say it's similar to the migration from the text based command shell to a graphical user interface 25 or 30 years ago. The big difference today, however, is that this time it is not about progress under ergonomic aspects, not about ease of use.

that is not going to happen anytime soon if that is the case, trust me...

 

[geophil]

And the de-facto boycott by the potential customers contributes a lot.

It's difficult for MS. XP is still the second most popular Windows OS, with 38% market share in April. Why would anyone change his OS anyway? The migration from XP to 7, at least by professional users, is for better 64 bit support, not for any Aero gimmicks. Even in XP, professional users switched back to the classic view first time they logged in. They say the versatile PC is dying. I am sure they are right, at least for the home user. From my point of view, the NT line of OSes is on a par with Unix/Linux. But that professionalism is about the mechanics under the hood, not about superficial start screens. And that under the hood part is undergoing dramatic changes with that peculiar app sub-system which makes no sense at all to any pro user. Now, what are they going to do? Try to keep the pros happy and split their OS into one for consumers and one for pros? Or driving away the pros? Or going bust?

 

[Robert2d6]

And the de-facto boycott by the potential customers contributes a lot.

It's difficult for MS. XP is still the second most popular Windows OS, with 38% market share in April. Why would anyone change his OS anyway? The migration from XP to 7, at least by professional users, is for better 64 bit support, not for any Aero gimmicks. Even in XP, professional users switched back to the classic view first time they logged in. They say the versatile PC is dying. I am sure they are right, at least for the home user. From my point of view, the NT line of OSes is on a par with Unix/Linux. But that professionalism is about the mechanics under the hood, not about superficial start screens. And that under the hood part is undergoing dramatic changes with that peculiar app sub-system which makes no sense at all to any pro user. Now, what are they going to do? Try to keep the pros happy and split their OS into one for consumers and one for pros? Or driving away the pros? Or going bust?

I don't think MS is concerned about the pro user, they want to go after the market that Apple has, the tablet, phone market. They couldn't care less about desktops, and that is why the total focus of Windows 8 is the touch screen-tablet-phone, period.