Blue wrote:
"...winston‫" wrote:
Stef wrote:
Came across this little blurb. chuckle, chuckle

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/28/54...ing-experiment



What a joke as a marketing ploy. When half your customers don't like
the product, giving it away won't change that consensus. MS has
already reduced licensing frees with little or no tangible results.

MS is in denial. It needs to get its head out of the sand, and give
their desktop customers what they want: A true desktop, mouse and
keyboard version.

It would also be nice if it ran on users' current hardware and
a totally new system purchase wasn't necessary. But perhaps, I'm
dreaming, and asking too much. This IS Windows after all.

Stef



Not going to happen...the OEM's are in the driver seat..and want to
maintain margins by using current hardware.

The future market is smart devices, not desktop pcs.

For consumers, maybe. I doubt anyone that has to do heavy work with a
keyboard is going want to use their thumbs.


Look to the east to understand the who the target market is...it might
have been you and I yesterday...it won't be us ever again.

In the east they don't do spreadsheets, word processing, data base
building? No authors? Philosophers? Etc?


Adapt or realize later that what you continue to use (if Windows) will
cease to be supported on hardware and software.

Reality bites...



And all the businesses that use desktops and laptops? I suppose they
could put some ports on a smart phone and so you could hook up a
keyboard, mouse and monitor. How long do you think it will be before
"reality bites"?

That bite has already been digested. The seminal change occurred a few
year ago with the advent of wifi and portable devices at a variety of
levels of management asking the good-old-boy IT departments why can't I
do this at work when I can do it at home. That also included the
management with enough horsepower (btdt) that don't ask why just
instruct to make it happen and if not done just outsource the entire IT
to someone who can.

That bite will have bigger teeth marks in the future...workstations will
replace desktops with cloud storage and tablets replacing
laptops...won't happen overnight but it will happen.

Desktop users just like usenet will continue to become a smaller subset
of the entire user base.

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....winston
msft mvp consumer apps