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I consider every OS that I have tried from W98 thru to 7, (with the exception of Millenium which I skipped), to be an improvement on the previous one. OK Vista took a bit longer to get the bugs sorted out, but still better than XP.
Can't say the same of 8. It has radically departed from the general structure of all past versions. And I have no doubt it will cause mayhem to the average joe.
Smartfone/tablet users will be OK. However the skills involved in using these devices does not carry over carte blanche into a desktop PC.
I have a Sony Android Smartfone, and there is no comparison between that and desktop. In fact I think of it as a hybrid computer/phone and not really that good at either. Try typing a word doco on a tiny screen. And the web sites need to be magnified 300 - 400% to make them readable, with 3 or 4 scrolls to read a line. You can't print a hard copy receipt for bank transactions. And so it goes on.
Concur. Personally I think it will fragment the market to a certain degree. Certainly there will be some adopters of it but people that use Windows for desktop are going to be hard-pressed to retool their system just for the bolted-on "Metro" (OK - Modern) GUI. What value does any of that stuff add? OK, so the O/S is slightly optimized for speed - however it's an incremental improvement. I don't rebuild my systems for incremental improvements, I doubt corporate desktop environments will. My employer has 30,000 employees using desktop Windows. Heck ... they're not even all up to Win7 as yet. I doubt we'll see them deploy Win8 any time soon. They may develop a Metro (oops, Modern) app at some point but will IT burden itself with forcing Win8 on the entire organization? I seriously doubt it. Not until there's something about the thing that just knocks the socks off the management or saves some serious bucks. MS has one hell of an uphill battle with this one, particularly in the corporate environment.
-Max
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Inspiron 17R / Dell XPS 8300
- CPU
- Intel i5 (17R) / Intel i7 (XPS)
- Memory
- 8GB / 8GB