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Microsoft was able to recover in the past. See how it goes this time with Windows 9.
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Tomz_KV wrote: Apple experienced the transition years ago and did well. There were a couple important differences with Apple:
1. Apple was ALWAYS a hardware company.
2. Apple had hit rock bottom in sales, market share, profits...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Good points. Microsoft is doing hardware now: Surface tablet & Windows phone. It is a question if Microsoft is able to catch up.
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Don't think of them as bad and good... Think of them as Beta and RTM.
Windows Vista was a Beta product, and Windows 7 was the RTM version.
Windows 8 is the next Beta, and Windows 9 will be the RTM.
Microsoft has just gotten a little confused in recent years... They can't tell the difference between an end user and a beta tester anymore.
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So we'll never have a real Windows.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: [Micro$oft] can't could never tell the difference between an end user and a beta tester anymore ever.
FTFY
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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How do you define recent years?
To me it seems that they have always done that.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: How do you define recent years?
To me it seems that they have always done that.
Yes they have.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Tomz_KV wrote: ot as positive as Windows 7
Windows 7 and Xp were almost identical. Win8 would also have had a great reception if it had been a clone of Win7.
People demand new but do not like changes, that's it.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Interesting enough that Microsoft likes to change graphic interface drastically more than the functionality.
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What pleases the eye...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Exactly; improvements to the underlying kernel and such should not require such a change in the Interface.
I'd prefer the Windows 3 Interface on top of the current Operating System -- combining the two (OS and UI) is not a good idea (in my opinion).
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Exactly; improvements to the underlying kernel and such should not require such a change in the Interface.
Everyone sees it but Microsoft. Hard to believe.
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People usually don't demand very much at all. Mickeysoft usually tries to tell everybody what they should demand so that they have a reason to release a new version.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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Microsoft: "if you build it, they will come".
TOMZ_KV
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Tomz_KV wrote: "if you build it, they will come bend over".
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Windows is and never will be a finished product.
It always evolves; but never in a straight line; sometimes it backtrack or sidesteps.
I'd rather be phishing!
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It also does the hokey-pokey.
All while you shower it with $$$$$.
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great business model!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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User training business will benefit from it.
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This has been their history all along.
Bad Good
95 98
2000/ME XP
Vista 7
8 9?
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A little correction Win2000 was (is, still have to use certain things that don't work XP or later) Good it was the bug fixed Windows NT, ME was awful....
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Following this pattern, Windows 9 is good.
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Most arguments I read about 8 and people's wishes that 9 will somehow magically solve everything typically revolve around Metro and/or the Start screen.
I'm using 8.1 on a first-gen Surface Pro--you can't get any more "native Win8" than that; this is the device MS designed from scratch for it. Yet I manage to use this device as my "daily driver", hooked up to my regular mouse/keyboard/three 1920x1200 monitors via a USB3 dock. So essentially I use it as if it was a regular PC.
I don't spend my days with my arm extended to smear the screen with my greasy fingers. I don't use any Metro app, don't use the charms, and I've kept using the Windows 8 desktop like I've been doing for years now, which is, with all my everyday apps pinned to the taskbar or on the desktop itself. As such, I never see the much-maligned Start screen on 8 any more often than I did the Start menu on 7 and older versions.
So what 9 is going to "fix", I don't know. People seem to be fixated on the return of the Start menu (I've had little use for it for years) and the fact that you'll be able to run Metro apps in windows (again, I'm not using any)...so...I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to in 9.
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dandy72 wrote: so...I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to in 9
Windows 7.9999999999 maybe?
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