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I don't know what Ms is playing at -- maybe tomorrow's (Thur 11 jul) re-organisation announcement might shed some light on this - but the current 8.1 offering will really not persuade a SINGLE business to adopt W8.1
1) There's no ENTERPRISE version so that immediately makes corporate deployment a huge pain in the you know where.
2) The hoops and rings you have to avoid in order to set W 8.1 up to use a LOCAL account -- the idea of users having (by default) to have a Microsoft id is just going to go down like a lead balloon in business environments.
Ensure you aren't connected to the Internet when installing W8.1 to get the Local account option BTW - but even here the notorious UAC problem comes back to bite you -- shades of the VISTA problem !!!
Afraid Ms you've bombed big time on this one -- you need to sort this out PDQ or be stuck with supporting W7 for far longer than the 6 years envisaged (up to 2020). W7 will last longer than XP at this rate.
A decent DESKTOP OS is MANDATORY for a business -- we don't need or want anything to do with "App Stores" etc. We don't also need FULL SCREEN Metro junk - especially as we are all being kitted out with HUGE monitors (as are a lot of workplaces these days).
I'm surprised that the management at Ms can't see the totally differing needs of Home and Corporate users -- there's always a SMALL overlap of course but in general the two environments have very different needs.
I haven't given up totally on this yet but I'm not too hopeful. - I'm now using W7 on my main computers again.
For Home usage the whole W8 type of interface could make sense - but not for a workplace.
Cheers
jimbo
I don't know what Ms is playing at -- maybe tomorrow's (Thur 11 jul) re-organisation announcement might shed some light on this - but the current 8.1 offering will really not persuade a SINGLE business to adopt W8.1
1) There's no ENTERPRISE version so that immediately makes corporate deployment a huge pain in the you know where.
2) The hoops and rings you have to avoid in order to set W 8.1 up to use a LOCAL account -- the idea of users having (by default) to have a Microsoft id is just going to go down like a lead balloon in business environments.
Ensure you aren't connected to the Internet when installing W8.1 to get the Local account option BTW - but even here the notorious UAC problem comes back to bite you -- shades of the VISTA problem !!!
Afraid Ms you've bombed big time on this one -- you need to sort this out PDQ or be stuck with supporting W7 for far longer than the 6 years envisaged (up to 2020). W7 will last longer than XP at this rate.
A decent DESKTOP OS is MANDATORY for a business -- we don't need or want anything to do with "App Stores" etc. We don't also need FULL SCREEN Metro junk - especially as we are all being kitted out with HUGE monitors (as are a lot of workplaces these days).
I'm surprised that the management at Ms can't see the totally differing needs of Home and Corporate users -- there's always a SMALL overlap of course but in general the two environments have very different needs.
I haven't given up totally on this yet but I'm not too hopeful. - I'm now using W7 on my main computers again.
For Home usage the whole W8 type of interface could make sense - but not for a workplace.
Cheers
jimbo
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