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.
Don’t tell this person ,but Win 10 is better ,quiet
that is kind of like a nuke explosion is very dangerous to living things.
"Vaporware"? Really? Let me guess, your favorite choice of operating system is... BeOS?
Nah, that's not fair, BeOS is perfectly respectable OS. Yours has to be even more obscure. Because if that's your view of Windows, then OS X and Linux aren't going to fare much better in that regard, and Unix doesn't fit your model at all.
Hmmm... CP/M?
I think SmokingJoe is right, ;-)
Yep.
Expect Win7 to start getting sick around 2020 when the Security Updates stop and the hackers have a field day.
Are operating systems that relevant anymore - at least for your average PC or mac user? Don’t most of us now spend most of our time on a browser?
RE: where Bill Gates made 100 billion dollars selling the world vaporware.
I don’t think he’s involved with the day to day operations of Microsoft anymore.
Lipstick on a pig.
As a Microsoft loather, I must admit that Windows 7 was good, and I gladly used it at work. It is fast and reliable.
As for Apple, their new leader(?) appears to want to switch quality places with Microsoft. Safari sux, and things are getting pretty thin when Apple’s big new product is a friggin’ watch.
A watch that has to be recharged daily.
>>> You don’t know what the word vaporware even means. LOL <<<
Isn’t it like vapor lock. :-/
Microsoft, don’t pee down my leg and tell me it’s raining.
Ive ran the beta window10 in a vm on my window 7 laptop.. it good.. very good.. and it is free to window 7 and 8 users...so download it and VirtualBox.. also free and try it out.. fyi.. you should learn how to do vm (virtual machines) anyway
Not only that you can set up Windows 8 start from the desktop. LOL.
He may being talking about Windows 8 RT which didn't have a desktop and which they no longer make I believe.
They’ll do the exact opposite for Window 11 or 10.1 or whatever the call the version after 10 and it’ll be another Vista/8 fiasco.
History repeats itself.
On a side note, I’m looking forward to OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which Apple is assuring everyone will work on all Apple machines manufactured since 2008. I wonder how many PC’s of that age will be able to load up and run Windows 10?
That's what I said about XP.
(Heck, that's what I said about MS-DOS 6.)
Why should the average user have to go through that crap? No one wants to roll the dice just to find out it sucks, and they do not want to play computer geek for days to learn about VM. I had to do that for a while to run some Win98 stuff and it was a PITA that luckily a geek set up for me.
Any PC that can run x86-64 instructions with full 64-bit memory addressing--though I'd recommend at minimum 8 GB of RAM (RAM is dirt-cheap nowadays). That means any PC that uses the Conroe-core Intel Core 2 Duo or Dual-Core Pentium CPU or the AMD Opteron or Athlon 64 CPU can run Windows 10 pretty well--essentially most PC's built since the fall of 2007.
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