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PC World's review of Win8
"If you’re mostly a desktop PC user comfortable with Windows 7,
upgrading to Windows 8 is probably not worthwhile" http://www.pcworld.com/article/20128...al-review.html Ed |
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Ed Cryer wrote:
"If you’re mostly a desktop PC user comfortable with Windows 7, upgrading to Windows 8 is probably not worthwhile" http://www.pcworld.com/article/20128...al-review.html Whew! Now I can skip Win8 with a clear conscience! -- Crash "Never underestimate the power of the Dark Side." ~ Obi-Wan Kenobi ~ |
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"Ed Cryer" wrote in message ...
"If you’re mostly a desktop PC user comfortable with Windows 7, upgrading to Windows 8 is probably not worthwhile" http://www.pcworld.com/article/20128...al-review.html That's probably consistent with MSFT's position since it would seem that one of the primary objectives at this stage is to not move every existing pc to Windows 8. Why ? With Win7 retail and OEM availability for at least one and two years respectively a more obvious (defined or not) preferred objective would be get everyone off XP (and Vista). -- ....winston msft mvp mail |
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On 01/11/2012 12:45 AM, ...winston wrote: "Ed Cryer" wrote in message ... "If you’re mostly a desktop PC user comfortable with Windows 7, upgrading to Windows 8 is probably not worthwhile" http://www.pcworld.com/article/20128...al-review.html That's probably consistent with MSFT's position since it would seem that one of the primary objectives at this stage is to not move every existing pc to Windows 8. Why ? With Win7 retail and OEM availability for at least one and two years respectively a more obvious (defined or not) preferred objective would be get everyone off XP (and Vista). I think you are spot on there. I doubt Microsoft can be stupid enough to think that business customers will ever use Windows 8, but by putting it there it makes it clear to them that Windows 7 is the only way to go, so they will no longer delay moving from XP. Microsoft will pick up some of the tablet/phone market with Windows 8 (not much, it's not that good) which they would otherwise have lost entirely. Having got the enterprise customers to Windows 7, it should be easier to move them to Windows 9 (if it's any good) - but either way, as you say, Microsoft can forget XP for ever. -- Bob Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK www.galen.org.uk Failure is not an option - it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. |
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On 10/31/2012 5:39 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
"If you’re mostly a desktop PC user comfortable with Windows 7, upgrading to Windows 8 is probably not worthwhile" http://www.pcworld.com/article/20128...al-review.html Ed yup, that makes a lot of sense. Which is why I just happily nuked the Win 8 partition off this machine. It probably wasn't going to work anymore anyways, since its been released and that was the CP version from a few months back. It was annoying. Quite happy with Windows 7... guess I will wait for Windows 9, unless, that too, has the same nonsense interface. |
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"kreed" NOTkreed_pub btopenworld.com wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote: "If you’re mostly a desktop PC user comfortable with Windows 7, upgrading to Windows 8 is probably not worthwhile" http://www.pcworld.com/article/20128...he-official-re view.html yup, that makes a lot of sense. Which is why I just happily nuked the Win 8 partition off this machine. It probably wasn't going to work anymore anyways, since its been released and that was the CP version from a few months back. It was annoying. Quite happy with Windows 7... guess I will wait for Windows 9, unless, that too, has the same nonsense interface. You're right about upgrading from Windows 7, but you may as well get used to the interface changes. Microsoft is playing defense. Ultraportable computers are rampant. Apple's revenue on the iPhone alone is as much as all of Microsoft's revenue. Contrary to silly predictions, the desktop personal computer is here to stay. But, the masses might not require a full sized PC. The iPhone probably satisfied lots of pent up desire for a personal computing device, for people who didn't want a desktop computer. And Microsoft is probably under pressure by Ultraportable personal computer operating system makers, that could easily port their operating systems to a full size desktop computer. Perhaps Microsoft should be concentrating on empowering desktop users. For example, speech control. Many people probably do not understand that concept either, but speech operation of personal computing devices is only a matter of time (I do it, already). Naturally a desktop computer can handle speech more easily than an ultra portable PC, but Microsoft is lazy. Encouraged by competition, there's a distinct likelihood that speech control and other OS innovations will come bass ackwards through ultraportable devices to the desktop PC. Should that happen, our courts could reap gobs of money from Microsoft trying to fight them off. |
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PC World's review of Win8
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:44:06 +0000 (UTC), John Doe wrote:
So the reason this thing doesn't properly formatted a USENET post is an attitude problem? His formatting was better than yours! |
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On 19/11/12 03:44, John Doe wrote:
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Gordonbp gordonbparker yahoo.com wrote:
John Doe wrote: So the reason this thing doesn't properly formatted a USENET post is an attitude problem? Nope - it's a Microsoft problem. It could choose to use a real USENET client. -- X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3555.308 Path: eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!news.mind.de!news.cs.uni-magdeburg.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gordonbp gordonbparker yahoo.com Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-8 Subject: PC World's review of Win8 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:42:13 +0000 Lines: 8 Message-ID: agur9lFlnbkU1 mid.individual.net References: k6s9di$r0b$1 dont-email.me k84hnt$708$3 dont-email.me rrOdnQ0n0qALDjTNnZ2dnUVZ7qidnZ2d bt.com k8c5ab$i5n$1 dont-email.me KbmdnRUI094tOzTNnZ2dnUVZ8g2dnZ2d bt.com k8c9u5$5ob$1 dont-email.me Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net sv9rJ4mVu0DQl1Q+YZ5RqAF16jBVcKxlm3OZ8WJ50DDnmn1Tis OHMPLkaWH5QBikTZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:JHObPCgvI/+3gKzsGiIENBXodcQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: k8c9u5$5ob$1 dont-email.me Xref: mx04.eternal-september.org alt.comp.os.windows-8:1318 |
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