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Windows: It’s over, tech site declares
Fox News ^ | April 16, 2013

Posted on 04/16/2013 1:12:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: davisfh

I’m still using XP on my desktop and laptop at home. For that matter, I’m using XP at work too.


21 posted on 04/16/2013 1:31:18 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Some people take there grammar way to seriously.)
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To: Olog-hai

The PCs from 3 or 4 years ago are still “good enough”.


22 posted on 04/16/2013 1:31:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

I like Windows 8 a lot. It took me a couple of days to train myself, but now I hate going back. ....i am a developer and have to term into XP and windows 7 boxes. I have also worked on Macs.

win 8 is my favorite.


23 posted on 04/16/2013 1:31:57 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (bahits.com)
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To: Responsibility2nd
“Try blaming laptops, smart phones and tablets. Especially tablets.”

Try blaming the fact that the current sales reflect the number of people that actually WORK at a computer. If you spend your day with Word, Excel, and Project open, you are probably going to want a desktop and two large screens (like the one I'm typing this on).

On the other hand, if most of your computer use is fundamentally PLAY, why not go to a tablet or even a smart phone. Nobody needs two 23” monitors to check what some imbecile celebrity just tweeted.

24 posted on 04/16/2013 1:32:32 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: Puppage

No, that thing sucked. Their first foray into making crappy operating systems.


25 posted on 04/16/2013 1:32:57 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Olog-hai

This guy is an idiot. You know what they aren’t counting into this #? Tablets that run windows 8. Duh...that’s the market they are trying to move into.


26 posted on 04/16/2013 1:33:25 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Olog-hai

I like windows. I’m looking out one right now. And until they find a way to modify my eyeballs and shrink my fingers, I’ll keep my PC too.


27 posted on 04/16/2013 1:33:54 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: I cannot think of a name

Yep blame the tablet which also runs windows 8. So it’s not windows that’s over it’s the desktop PC that is over.


28 posted on 04/16/2013 1:34:14 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: OneWingedShark
...and instead focusing on ensuring correct and stable products.

What?!? You think Microsoft would ever willingly go down that road?

CA....

29 posted on 04/16/2013 1:34:26 PM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“This is Microsoft we’re talking about. As soon as something is stable they move to a whole new version because they think you will have to buy it.”

They are a business. What are they supposed to do, just keep stroking some decade-old OS forever?

They didnt make Windows as a hobby.


30 posted on 04/16/2013 1:35:28 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Olog-hai; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; ...

31 posted on 04/16/2013 1:35:36 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: FreeAtlanta

I think MS understands that it will probably be at least a year or two before it bears fruit, but they had to do something to get into the tablet game......The key will be if the Enterprise adapts Windows Tablets to replace the PCs, that can run the same software on the PCs.....if so, then Microsoft is far from dead.


32 posted on 04/16/2013 1:35:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: apillar

>>Yeeahhh, I’ve been reading that prediction every year since 1980...

Maybe not since 1980, but I’ve been reading the same predictions. But, I’ve never seen lifelong PC fans moving to Mac in droves as I’m seeing since Win 8 came out. The only people who (say that they) like Win 8 are people who own MS stock.


33 posted on 04/16/2013 1:35:41 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Olog-hai

The idea of a single interface for different devices is idiotic.

Windows 8 should have the Metro UI on tablets and smartphones, and the Aero UI on PCs.

They even put the Metro UI on Windows *Server*, for crying out loud.


34 posted on 04/16/2013 1:36:08 PM PDT by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: Olog-hai

35 posted on 04/16/2013 1:37:02 PM PDT by McGruff (You are either with us or you are with the RINOs.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

all support ends for XP in less than a year.


36 posted on 04/16/2013 1:37:23 PM PDT by TV Dinners (Hope is not a Strategy)
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To: VanDeKoik
You said they should work on stability.

I was merely pointing out that stability is not their goal.

You are admitting that your stability comment was ludicrous.

37 posted on 04/16/2013 1:37:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth." --Alan Greenspan)
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To: Olog-hai

Windows 8 is n the Windows Me and Vista camp.

Developers already offer Windows 8 shells to get rid of the interface.


38 posted on 04/16/2013 1:38:01 PM PDT by NoLibZone (None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
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To: Bryanw92

“But, I’ve never seen lifelong PC fans moving to Mac in droves as I’m seeing since Win 8 came out. “

But then again despite all of these supposed “I hate Windows 8” people going to Macs because Windows 8 is too different from Windows 7 to the point where they go to a platform...that looks nothing like Windows 7, Mac sales have slumped too.

The only people that have done better seems to be Lenovo.


39 posted on 04/16/2013 1:39:18 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Responsibility2nd
Try blaming laptops, smart phones and tablets. Especially tablets.

Wait a second, are you saying this 14% drop is only counting desktops?

If that's the case then this is an overcooked goose of a story.

40 posted on 04/16/2013 1:39:38 PM PDT by CommieCutter
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