Windows 8 Died at Launch, Microsoft Moves on to Windows 9

The Daily Caller ^ | 7/28/2014 | Andy Patrizio

[outofsalt]

"Haha, yes it would be like if GM removed the steering wheel and substituted rudder pedals and a stick, then wondered why everyone wanted to keep driving their old cars."
I could have sworn we would have flying cars by now!

I saw an interview with an Apollo astronaut who was asked what changes he thought were the most amazing since the lunar program. He said something like, I would have imagined colonies on Mars but instead we got facebook.

[mountainlion]

Are factory parts still available for Fords Model T?

Actually yes, there are still some New old stock available. There are many after market parts around also. Old parts are easily repainted without having to update to the latest version.

[driftdiver]

So Ford is still making them?

Just admit that you’ve lost.

[rarestia]

Windows XP was the most insecure pile of crap ever conceived by a development shop. If you understand operating system kernel mode functionality or have any knowledge of the “under the hood” aspects of Windows in general, you would not be advocating this viewpoint.

EVERYTHING about which people are bitching since Vista is aesthetic or control based. The core operating system behind Windows since Vista has been the most stable revision of a Windows OS since DOS 6.2.

Advocating for the return of XP is sheer folly and a waste of time and breath. If you want to advocate for the GUI, go for it, but Microsoft cannot dumb down the UI because a small subset of the user community cries about it. Windows 7 is/was an amazing OS, and Windows 8 is incredibly stable and blazing fast. My only lament with Microsoft as of last is how much they’re speeding up their time to market for new operating systems. They need to let them bake in.

[redangus]

I agree I have three computers with W8.1, and two older W7 units. I find the W8 to be faster. It took a little getting used to, and it is not as user friendly on a non touch screen computer, but I love the tiles and can always go to desktop when necessary.

[SkyDancer]

No wonder MS is laying off 18,000 employees.

[Boogieman]

Going to Mars is hard, facebook is easy... plus, there are no chicks to pick up on Mars. If there were some sexy Martian women up there, we’d have already figured out a way to colonize the place.

[chulaivn66]

Archived files of importance are best stored on double or even single-layered Dvd’s, IMHO. Quadruple layered disks will improve storage capability and as long as the drives remain backwards compatible and do not require an internet connection to function, what little I have to leave to posterity will satisfy my needs. I neglected to mention that in my comment. Drives may fail for whatever reason as you know.

My concern is privacy and the constant demand of the new OS’s and their ‘Apps’ requiring an internet connection to function narrows that privacy window. MS Office is now cloud based. The programs are ‘in the cloud’ and the results of their use are stored there. Not good. In fact insofar as privacy is concerned that is double-plus bad.

I might find the need to go retrograde and resort to paper and pencil! Did I mention I have the ability to write in cursive? Knowing that eliminates the ability of many to understand what I have written. If you get my drift.

[Nowhere Man]

Yeah, I think you could upgrade the TI-99/4A to 48K of RAM.

[driftdiver]

Don’t disagree with you but DVDs are limited in space and probably won’t be around too much longer.

[Boogieman]

When did you buy your truck?

Windows XP was released in 2001, and they supported it until 2014. Computer hardware is generally obsolete in about six-eight years with the current pace of development. So, they supported the product for twice the average lifetime of any hardware that it was sold to operate.

So, does GMC support your truck for twice its average lifetime, free of charge?

[Scrambler Bob]

eliminates the ability of many to understand what I have written.—

Is that why NSA always uses printed caps; Like ebonics/texting?

[Boogieman]

Oh man, 48k, what would you even do with ALL that memory?!?

[NorthMountain]

Live by the network ... Die by the network.

[The Cajun]

That could include tighter cloud services integration. One feature widely rumored but not confirmed by Microsoft is that it will offer seamless, tight cloud integration into the OS. Your OneDrive storage will be as easy to access as the “C: drive,” so all of your documents, personal files, photos, etc. will go right to the cloud without having to think about it.

Looks like 9 is starting to smell *Big Time* already.

[publius911]

Your OneDrive storage will be as easy to access as the “C: drive,” so all of your documents, personal files, photos, etc. will go right to the cloud without having to think about it.
looks like Win-7 is here to stay...

I don't think so.
I was there when the mainframe manufacturers went all out ridiculing the very idea of a "personal computer."

They all reassured us that storing all data on mainframe computers (yesterday's 'cloud') WAS the future.

Well, it didn't work out that way.
The only change now is that everybody can buy the equivalent of mainframes, and they all have the same $$$$$ vision in front of their eyes.

I shudder at the thought of having to tell the IRS that the cloud lost all my records.
Worse yet, to hear from the IRS that THEY lost my records, and I owe them a monthly fine until they find them...

[AFreeBird]

Didn’t hurt OS X either.

[Chode]

100%...

[Secret Agent Man]

walt: you’re making some generic, tepid, off-brand cola. i’m making classic coke.

declan: what stops me from wasting you, right now, right here, and leaving you in the desert? i still make my stuff. see how that works?

walt: do you really want to live in a world without coca-cola?

in this analogy, declan is microsoft. walt is unix os’s.

[Secret Agent Man]

logan’s run called and they want their terminal back.