Posted on 06/12/2015 1:33:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft listened to you. More than anything else, that's why Windows 10 won't be another Windows 8 or Vista.
In conversations with CNNMoney, top decision makers at Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba noted that Microsoft requested their input throughout the process of creating Windows 10. They said Microsoft listened to their feedback -- and, vicariously, PC customers' feedback -- and made a better operating system as a result.
Responding to customer demands. The PC makers said that process was vastly improved from the way that Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) conducted its business ahead of the Windows 8 launch. They said Windows 8 felt forced on them while Windows 10 felt like more of a conversation.
"It's pretty cool how responsive Microsoft has been to feedback," said Mike Nash, HP's head of product strategy. "We were right there in the room planning Windows 10 with them from very beginning."
"There's a new dawn at Microsoft," said Allison Dew, Dell's marketing chief (and a former Microsoft employee). "What we've seen in terms of development and cooperation with Microsoft this time around is unlike what we've seen in past years."
Windows is good again. The result, they say is a much more refined operating system that customers will get excited about. That's a very different experience from Windows 8, which literally had customers calling their PC companies in droves wondering how to get to the desktop or turn their PCs off.
"We're more excited about this launch than we have been in a really long time," said Dew. "I've been through amazing windows launches and some that weren't quite as amazing. This has the feel of something amazing."
"Windows 8 was a difficult out-of-the-box adjustment to consumers," said Jeff Barney, head of Toshiba's U.S. PC business.
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I’m going to ride Windows 7 till one of us croaks.
Oh, gosh. Windows, where Bill Gates made 100 billion dollars selling the world vaporware.
Have you noticed that when windows “tries to fix the problem,” it NEVER does. It’s just a big confidence game.
Huh?
I’m going to ride Windows 7 till one of us croaks.
Yup and they eventually want to make out PCs like cell phones where you “subscribe” to them...
They don;t want customers anymore, they instead want “Milk cows”
Pay attention.
Windows 8 is an accumulation of all the bad things that microsoft had done for decades. If you do not turn off the keypad you do now know where you will end up. What a piece of junk.
I just ordered a new laptop. With Windows 7.
Feel free to ping me on threads of potential interest to Windows folks. Thanks!
-- dayglored
You don’t know what the word vaporware even means. LOL
Time will tell, WIn 8.1 is fine once you install Classic Shell and banish the Metro garbage.
I just hate sites like this CNN crapsite where after a minute or so, some garbage video finally gets done loading and starts blasting audio.
“I’m going to ride Windows 7 till one of us croaks.”
I said the same thing about XP 3 years ago. We are both still alive and well. (Knock on wood)
Taking away the entire desktop and replacing it with something off a cell phone was a little - well, not "difficult", it was arrogant, high-handed, and infuriating, an idea that Marketing could only have passed through the chain by avoiding focus groups and any other actual user interaction. I recall sitting in an introduction meeting watching the screen of Server 2012 coming up and asking how we were supposed to navigate the thing, and the marketeer they sent said cheerily, "just touch the screen and the charms will appear." The what? And just how many servers in the entire world have touchscreens, anyway? Bad, bad, bad idea, made worse by the initial unbending response. This won't be that - I've already seen enough betas to know that. Can't wait for the release to market.
What was your old machine running before the update to Win10, and how easy was the update to Win10? Also 32- or 64-bit
I have an old XP 32-bit at home, and I would like to update it. Win7 would be OK, but being more current would be nice as well.
I figure I am set with an old XP box and this newer 7 box until hell freezes over. They moved enough stuff around to confuse me with 7 that it is the end of the road. Do not need more "learning", just want to use the damn thing.
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