Posted on 09/20/2013 11:02:42 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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I went to IDF this year hoping to find a reason that PCs weren’t doomed and came away knowing all key players are actively making things worse. The PC isn’t just in trouble, it is actively being destroyed because no one involved is interested in changing.
Lets face it, the modern Windows 8 PC is a miserable experience, it is not a step forward from its predecessors in any measurable way but the steps backward are as numerous as they are obvious. The forthcoming Windows 8.1 is at best window dressing attempting to placate the critics without actually fixing any of their complaints.
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Da spoons and fooorks are dead.
People are drinking from the bottles.
FUBO
Just remember VISTA. I would still be nursing Windows XP as long as humanly possible were in not for the VISTA replacement.
Manufacturers cannot force customers to accept and use crap. they are not the Federal government.
In the last few days, there was a report of a new chip that allow gigabite memory which is faster, smaller and uses 1/10 the power. I can't see, even if it were possible, using telephones, netbooks and game consoles to do serious computing on a tiny device.
A 20 Gig PC built into a Standard Sized keyboard would be true, useful evolution.
Windows 8? FUGGEDABOUTID!
Windows 8 is better than any version of windows I have ever used. I go back to Win 3.0.
Windows 8.1 is a very nice upgrade to Windows 8.
The problem with Windows features development has always been that Microsoft, as all computer companies, has responded to the demands of the loudest and biggest (buying volume) corporate managers, as a rule, non-technical people, who in turn respond to their corporate suckups.
Speak in Hyperbole much?
Windows 8 is a disaster, but PC’s are a commodity and given windows 8 sucks and it is nearly impossible to find a PC without it, most folks are holding onto their good enough PCs rather than upgrading.
I have no time, and never will, for illiterate morons whose existence is now in cellphonespeak.
I value whatever insights or comments they have less than zero. If their ability to communicate is that fragile, I can't conceive how their technical opinions are worth spit.
Comparing DOS to NTVDM is absurd, without even mentioning PowerShell. One of the best new things in NTVDM is the innate ability to process lists in a FOR loop, making batch processing a cinch. Add to that the ability to use (and the improvement in) jscript, vbscript, and wscript (again, not even mentioning PowerShell), and there is no comparison whatsoever.
I’m sure glad I read this.
I’ve been working all day on an order for 25 PCs (with Win 7) to upgrade my training lab.
I probably should just forget it and buy 25 tablets...
I seldom use a PC without access to an electrical plug, even my laptops.
However, I can't imagine not being able to do real adult work on a PC in environments, which I have often experienced, where there is no access to the internet.
And yet you mention it twice. I was comparing Windows to early Windows (even if I got the early date wrong. And I ran Windows 1.0) So tell me, where are batch queues, with user modifiable priorities, permissions, ownership, etc? A FOR loop has been known since the dawn of programming languages. Batch queues have been known for 40 years or more. Manipulation/management of running processes for as long. Windows yesterday and today is MSDOS with pictures. (Exaggeration.)
Either someone forgot a "sarc" tag, or Luddites Live!
And yes, at first, I hated it.
Now? I dont hate it, dont LOVE it either, but actually, as an OS, is is quite good, its the UI that needs tweaking. I do some of my own tweaks, and have found that I have gotten use to the lack of the "start" button. At the moment, operating this computer, compared with my Win 7 computes, is 99+% the same. So I have no real problems with it.
That said, when 8.1 comes out, I plan to upgrade.
So all in all, I give it, currently, a 7 out of 10 at the moment.
Except for the huge businesses, which basically don't care, since they hire morons, inadvertently, most serious, smoothly-running businesses, medium and small, will bail wholesale.
Mark my words.
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I don't care who you are, that was hilarious.
Apple gay hairdressers and artists are having a monumental hissy fit. I like that.
“Intel proves once and for all that PCs are not coming back”
Sure. And 50% of the cars on the road are now electric.
The death of the pc is just following society. As people become just consumers, they don’t create anything anymore. There is no market for creative tools (PCs) when there is no creative market. Hardly anyone is creating anything these days. They just consume and suck $$$ out of the market. Sad to see it happen. PC companies are just focusing on where they can sell products. They are just selling consumption devices.
I think one should be able to tell by the way it is written. There are no syntactical mistakes, no typos. ;-)
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