Windows 8: Fragmentation of the hardware ecosystem is inevitable

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Windows 8: Fragmentation of the hardware ecosystem is inevitable[/h] By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
April 19, 2012, 10:41am PDT


Summary: When it comes to the differences between Windows 8 and Windows RT, it’s going to take more than a sticker to educate users.


With about six months to go until Windows 8 is available, OEMs are beginning to offer us a glimpse at the hardware they plan to use to tempt our wallets and purses open.


We’re already starting to see some interesting ideas and innovative hardware designs for categories of products that didn’t exist a few months ago. It’s becoming clear is that Microsoft’s next operating system will result in significant fragmentation of the consumer hardware platform, and on a scale that we’ve never seen before.


Windows 8 will fragment the consumer hardware platform into four distinct categories, three of which will be new to the majority of consumers.

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I don't think fragmentation of hardware is the appropriate word. Innovation might be one. Software fragmentation is one thing, but hardware is something else.
 

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Agree, when I read the article, it is apparent he is referring to the splitting up of eventual computer usage, which is being discussed widely on windows 8 forums. - Stationaries - laptops - touchpad use etc. Bad choice of title. Mind you, I had the same irritation when the misuse of the word, "ecosystems", crept into the computer industry.
 

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Keeping my past prejudices aside about what MS is doing with their Windows 8/RT approach, it seems like the industry is adjusting at last minute with bad ideas just to keep pace with MS's bad ideas:

"We’re already starting to see some interesting ideas and innovative hardware designs"

Just looking at the pictures and videos stills found on the link, my opening sentence sprung to mind without any conscious thought put to it. It's one company creating a gimmick nonsense followed by others helping them to achieve it. (Here, put out your index finger and poke this screen like a toddler! Yes, that shape is a rectangle!)

I had the same irritation when the misuse of the word, "ecosystems", crept into the computer industry.

Agreed Dave. This is computing. Not some living, breathing entity. Gimme a break.
 

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You could say the writer was being a little biosed but was conveying the changes 8 will see brought about and which many will be dismayed by. The focus by MS as well as the OEM manufacturers will prove to be a move away from the traditional desktop into diversity!

As far as the word ecosystems you will note that is also used in the video clip at the link there. You'll need to listen closely however to pick up on it since the promotional clip is a one minute fast mover
 

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Yeas, I did catch it. It was brought out the remark in my post. He added to my chagrine by saying "the entire ecosystem" He would have been partly forgiven if the had said, the entire computer eco system or, better, the entire, so-called, ecosystem.
But anyway, it's just forum chat -lol.
 

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Windows based slates have been around for several years, and not so popular, the new tablets like ipad and the various Android versions have changed the hardware 'ecosystem' (agree, bad choice of words) with lower ability/powered CPUs and other components. Supposedly to be able to offer them at a lower cost, which I haven't seen yet.

When these Arm devices started to take off it was only a matter of time before MS would join in, so I don't see how the article can blame MS for that.

There is a large percentage of the computer using populace that really doesn't need a high powered laptop or desktop, they just check email, surf, watch a video/movie, and write the occasional letter. Even the lower end laptop/desktop CPUs are wasted on these users. It is inevitable that lower powered/functioning devices will become available for them.
The problem I have is the cost/hardware comparison between low end laptop/desktop and tablets. For the same price, or sometimes less, you can get a much more powerful laptop/desktop.
The average user doesn't know or care, it all comes down to what is popular.

The worst thing that will come out of this is that the power user and up will end up paying more for their components due to the economy of scale and the average user will pay more for a lower hardware level tablets due to inflated sticker prices.
 

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Anything with the "IP___" at the front of it will be HIGH PRICED at any time! The smart phones catch the higher tags by having more buttons to push on their qwerty keyboards as well as other functions over the various makes and models of your typical cell phone. Of course then you are dealing with an OS as well.

What you actually end up with there is best known as "Paying for the Convenience". And people will pay out for that! With texting for example a popular trend manufacturers are sure to have hugh profit gains.
 

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It will probably result in companies "going to the wall".

Instead of just producing desktops and laptops, they will now start producing multiple different devices, which will probably have little commonality in components.
This will slash their profit margins.
 

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Fpr the retailers in the US they will simply become the profit houses when the influx of all these new devices is imported! These days when walking into a Walmart or Best Buy what do you find in the Consumer Electronics section?

Barely a few keyboards and mice along with a video card or hard drive or two while the displays are all focused on flat screen tvs and hand helds! The hand held devices also see tons of accessories filling the aisles!

MS apparently was a little late with their Windows RT however when going to jump in on the band wagon for ARM it seems. Did Microsoft run out of time with Windows RT? - Computerworld
 

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That's "all well and good" for retailers.
I meant manufacturers.

Remember the recent HP debacle(s)?
 

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"Supply and Demand" is the key term there! If anything doesn't sell the OEMs lose out! But that's the risk when going to invest in any new technology where you can lose your shirt if things fall through.

Of course for any large corporation that makes for a large write-off as part of the costs of doing business. If they sell on the other hand you will often the fast turnover of newer models.
 

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I think that the fragmentation is intentional, to split Windows into The Old and The New. I think Microsoft wants developers to convert their programs to Metro, so that Microsoft is free to rebuild Windows for the redefinition of computing.

i still expect legacy application support will hang around for a while, first as a pseudo-virtual machine like XP Mode, then as an option only in the Enterprise version.

I don't know how long it may take, but my earliest estimate is for Windows 9 to have a brand new native development environment (Not Metro, nor the current environment with the DLLs and registry access and stuff), with Windows 9 Pro and 9 Enterprise being the only ones that offer legacy support.

In which case Microsoft may bank on Windows 7 being in use in Enterprises for many years.
 

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With 8 not seen with 7 MS will be adding the BitLocker and other tools only found in the Ultimate and Enterprise editions with 7 will be seen in the Pro and Pro Plus editions. As far as the XP Mode that was written for 7 while you can still run it on 8 but with the VMLite Workstation presently. The finished 8 may see a Vista Mode even as a possibility available for the Pro and Pro Plus ediitons.

The "way of the Cloud" is where MS is focused as well as on the Metro for 8. Keeping this in mind MS is focused on virtual environments where you can simply assume all Legacy support would be confined to just the two higher end editions. Plus for virtual machines with the exception of the MS VPC where do you generally look for a virtual player? A 3rd party source!
 

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This article is pretty much trash as far as I am concerned. It states the obvious and three of the 4 are not new at all. The biggest thing most consumers won't get is arm tablet vs x86 tablet. That is about all really. Everyone knows you can add a touch monitor to any pc to get a touch screen for certain features and that could be done back on like winxp so that is old news. And we all know win8 can run on a standard desktop nothing new there. So that only leaves tablets and we knew win8 would be designed for those but the biggest difference and only thing most consumers may not grasp is that an ARM tablet and an x86 are very different and that is what this article should have focused on. Instead they act like consumers have no idea what anything other than a traditional desktop is and claim that win8 will magically create some rift between varying types of hardware none of which is even new at all but they seem to think so.

It sounds like anything other than a traditional desktop is new and alien to these people and so they feel that everyone should see it the same.
 

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The ARM would be running the Windows RT there which won't run your typical Windows apps. That was a separate OS entirely being geared strictly for hand held apps. You're in a different ball park entirely for that.

The largest "turn off" if you can label it that will simply be those objecting to the new Metro Start screen and loss of the standard Start menu people have grown accustomed to in each version since 3.1! For the novice just staring out on the other hand the new thrills seen in porables and hand helds used for calls, email, web browsing, and texting won't make it any burden.
 

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