[dayglored]

A little breathless, perhaps. But this appears to be a reasonable assessment of the situation Microsoft faces with Windows 10.

This is hardly the first time Microsoft has gone out bigtime for a launch... y'all remember this one, right?

[dayglored]

Windows 10 - do or die!... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[rockrr]

I wasn’t there for XP but I was there for Win-95.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

XP was the greatest OS ever.

[DonaldC]

I’m never t so sure the PC business is dead but perhaps Microsofts role in it given 3 of the last 4 OSes suck.

[Hostage]

The Surface line is outstanding. Much better than anything out there.

[TomGuy]

MS has ignored the fact that many users use PCs for productivity and not the glitz and glitter of mobile and tablet connections.

MS is ignoring a large segment of PC users — those who have significant reasons for still using XP and Win7, for example.

[the_daug]

Had a surface rt. Was really nice till ghost touching started after updates. Nokia didn’t allow Verizon to replace it under warranty and then sold to Microsoft and MS blew me off. I sent it in three times. No more surface for me.

[doorgunner69]

I recall being in Vegas for whatever that big electronics show was, and the "Bob" tow signs being flown around by planes.

I do not and will not "do" touch. I use my PX with the minitors 3+ feet away.

What a klutz company, now trying to boost 10 up by coercing users that do not do "touch" crap?

[Noumenon]

I was there for the Win95 launch. I had just gone from a vendor (consultant) badge to a blue badge. Found myself on a company hired bus with a box lunch in my lap and on the way to Tacoma Dome for the big whoop de do.

[ConservativeMind]

I want to pay Microsoft $300 for licenses to a non-crippled, non-invasive, operating system. They won't let me.

I won't have DVD playing, nor privacy concerns met, with Windows 10.

We have been playing with Linux, but we may buy Apple.

How can a company get sales so wrong?

[ConservativeMind]

Also, Microsoft abandons EVERYTHING. Why do I want to buy obsolete?

[Windflier]

XP was a good, stable OS. Microsoft was right to be excited about its launch.

It was so good, in fact, that my wife only recently upgraded our central business computer to Win 7.

She wouldn’t have even done that, if not for the fact that our QuickBooks program needed to be upgraded, and the upgrade only works with the 16 bit Win 7 OS.

[ThunderSleeps]

My first PC OS was MS-DOS 1.25. Haven't missed many since then (maybe a couple of Apple II OSes). Anyone remember CPM-86? IMHO Win-95 and XP pro were probably the apex. Win-98 and 8.x probably the bottom of the barrel.

When I use a PC I want a full sized physical keyboard and mouse, and a big monitor or two. When I use a phone or a tablet, it is for different tasks. I think it is a mistake for MS to try to blend the two. Witness 8 and 8.1 touch UI failures, or Ubuntu's unity mess.

[suboptimal]

If it’s do or die for Windows, then die, Windows, die.

[matthew fuller]

Windows 10 really should be put out to pasture, in Antarctica.

[Darteaus94025]

Sorry guys, I’m still trying to get Vista to work.

[upchuck]

August 24, 1995. At the Windows 95 launch, I was living in Louisville, KY. Three computer geek friends and I drove up to Cincinnati for the unveiling.

Now I’m a Win 7 forever person. Does everything I want and need. No reason to upgrade. Ever.

[Montana_Sam]

Windows real value is in its for-business line, rather than personal. Windows can’t be all things, to all people, at all times. If MS keeps going with this push to the touchscreens, to the exclusion of the desktop, it will become completely irrelevant very quickly. The Surface is a mobile device, with limited usability. What office admin wants that headache?