On Jul 13, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Thane Sherrington wrote: > At 11:22 AM 13/07/2014, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: >> I don't get how that can announce a EOS warning that are 6 months out. That >> should have come two years ago. It makes zero sense in the light of Windows >> 8 failure and while at the same time talking of Windows 9. People will find >> it easier to just jump to Mac OS. > > You're certainly right here. Vista was a huge bonus for Apple, who got a > bump then, and 8 is going to be another bump. MS doesn't get that they have > to provide what the market wants, not what they want to sell. > > T
At work, our computers are about 50/50 Windows 7 and XP. We actually still have a few Windows 2000 VMs running, too (no internet browsing)! I really thought Microsoft had turned a corner with Windows 7. I had played with Windows 8 about a year ago on a computer we purchased for our warehouse, and decided to just wipe and install 7. I didn't have time to figure everything out. Just last week, however, I bought a cheapo 8.1 laptop from Best Buy for testing some software on. I am honestly shocked by how much I hate win8. Awkward gestures, annoying seemingly random flipping between fullscreen mode and desktop mode, panels everywhere, REVERSED TOUCHPAD SCROLLING (way to copy something stupid Apple did), and the program we were testing doesn't work right to boot (some incompatibility between IE11 and Flash--works fine on every single other platform we tested on). I can't see rolling out any computer at work that has Windows8 on it. What a shame. Scott
