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Windows 9 will be an operating system you can love (will be aimed at desktops, not tablets)
CoDRmputer World ^ | 8/7/2014 | Preston Gralla

Posted on 08/08/2014 10:17:45 AM PDT by Signalman

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To: Signalman

They need to put Windows Media Center back in. Otherwise, Win7 will remain as the go-to OS for HTPCs.


41 posted on 08/08/2014 10:47:21 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: Signalman

MS is arrogance personified. They keep putting out operating systems, apparently only beta testing in an echo chamber. People hated Windows Me, Vista, and now 8. They’ll only be smart until the next O/S is released. Then they’ll go dumb again.


42 posted on 08/08/2014 10:50:11 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: Signalman

While I kinda figured, like with every MS story posted on FR, that the usual insecure Linux guys, Apple fanboys, and people that think that Windows should look like it did back in 1997 because somehow there is a constitutional right to have things in technology never change, I’ve been more than happy to be using Windows 8. Never had an issue with it, never had trouble finding anything, and was more than happy to be using Apps as opposed to crappy freeware and shareware or clunky desktop programs.

Quite frankly, it is nice to have a computer that doesn’t look like the boring Win7 computer at work.

I doubt that any changes they make will satisfy the professional complainers. If most of them even used Windows, they will just find something else to whine about, because once you reward whiners, they will just keep on.


43 posted on 08/08/2014 10:50:19 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Signalman
Vista: crap
I'm running a PC and laptop on Vista - since 2007 - ZERO problems.
44 posted on 08/08/2014 10:50:19 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Da Coyote

When Windows is on 90+ percent of laptops and desktops, yes, it does still matter.

When Macs still have about 5% of the PC OS market, and Linux is still around 1+ percent, YES, Microsoft still matters a lot.

The world still has abut 1 1/2 of PCs running with several versions of Windows in them, so, YES!, Microsoft still matters a lot. In fact, MS is still the leading OS and software company in the world.


45 posted on 08/08/2014 10:51:37 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: Signalman

At least they’re learning from their mistakes.


46 posted on 08/08/2014 10:52:21 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: markomalley

You must be one of that 1 percent.

;)


47 posted on 08/08/2014 10:52:53 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: Signalman

Windows 8 made me want to get violent...

I bought a new laptop for a project I was working on, it was so different that I lost about a month worth of productivity and money and the contract I was trying to get.

Until I found a Start8 program that simulated the desktop


48 posted on 08/08/2014 10:53:12 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: Minsc

“Windows 8 lost money”

It didn’t.


49 posted on 08/08/2014 10:53:13 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Signalman

They have been predicting the demise of the desktop for years and it has burned them.

Just like their prediction that we will all move to cloud storage and computing. A bad idea for most of us to begin with, and now with the NSA and DHS revealed to be what they are, a bad idea for everyone IMO.

May as well have the NSA be the cloud host and skip the middleman.


50 posted on 08/08/2014 10:53:26 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: al_c
At least they’re learning from their mistakes.

Until Window 10, where they will make the same mistakes

51 posted on 08/08/2014 10:53:47 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Dallas59

I like 7...

8 is trying to make my desktop act/look like a touchscreen tablet.


52 posted on 08/08/2014 10:54:52 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Signalman
I am going to set up a couple computers with a Windows 95 partition. It is small and should be much faster than the late model fat and clumsy pos. 8.1 won't even load! Progress, bigger and better mistakes.
53 posted on 08/08/2014 10:55:58 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Signalman

They drive some of the most horrible changes just because they can. I had been using MS Office for nearly 15 years and then, all of a sudden, BLAMMO. A completely redesigned interface with a stupid “ribbon bar.”

WHY?

Windows 8... The least intuitive OS since DOS.


54 posted on 08/08/2014 10:56:11 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: epluribus_2

I’ve said it before.

Apple is the only company that makes conservatives sound like flipping libs. Even after all of the money they give left-wing causes, they will not dare speak ill of them.


55 posted on 08/08/2014 10:56:22 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

You think Microsoft is conservative????


56 posted on 08/08/2014 10:57:33 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: PastorBooks

The Linux Mint 17 distro is the first one that I could get to run on the computer without a halt or a crash. I may actually install it. It does seem faster and simpler than Win 8.1.


57 posted on 08/08/2014 10:57:47 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Enlightened1
Microsoft knows that if they continue to slip behind Apple, Google and Samsung Operating Systems

Yet, none of what you perceive is happening.

MS got caught napping with no real answer to iPHones and Android, but, in the last couple of years, they've developed Windows Phone, which is actually, a much better OS for mobile devices than iOS or Android, market-share notwithstanding.

When it comes to PCs (laptops, desktops), Windows is still king, by far. Macs still hover around 5%, and Linux is still a bit above 1%, so, your rhetoric about MS being in danger, is way out of line with reality.
58 posted on 08/08/2014 10:59:54 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: VanDeKoik

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

I’ve used Windows 8 since it was released, and have had no problems whatsoever. In fact, it’s a lot better than Windows 7, and runs faster. When it comes to the complaints about the metro interface, those complainers aren’t smart enough to know that, Windows 8 can also work with the desktop interface, just like Windows 7.


59 posted on 08/08/2014 11:02:46 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: markomalley

Yep. I’m in the process of migrating the family over to Mint.

It’s been pretty seamless, and folks are loving that it just works.

/johnny


60 posted on 08/08/2014 11:04:25 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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