Windows 8 will be a big success with both enterprise and prsonal users.
Why?
It caters to both.
From an enterprise standpoint, you can have Windows on USB with access to all files stored securely in the cloud, not locally on the hard drive. When you access the file, it is the latest version, not the last one a user downloaded.
From a personal point of view, download a game on XBox and play it. Continue play on your PC or Tablet and then play on your mobile phone. One download and the game is on all your devices. Yes, the gameplay might be restricted on your phone due to hardware limitations. However, having access to everything while you are away from home is incredible.
With Windows 7, I already download movies and games on my XBox. I can play those on my laptop and phone. Windows 8 just takes it to be more integrated, more consistent.
Sharing the core OS across all platforms is going to be the game-changer here.
iOS is trying to get there, but has a looong way to go.
Android is nice if you like to tinker with your system, but the fragmentation of upgrades is incredibly irritating. They just announced Android V5 while some people have just received their upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3.
I know where the market is going, in this regard.
Your phone is basically going to become your computer. If you’re, for example, you’ll be able to dock your phone and run your monitor, printer and peripherals. Though all that would, of course, be powered separately from your phone.
The average phone today is probably almost as powerful as computers were 4 or 5 years ago. When they get quad-chipped, they will be about as powerful as computers are today.
The only limitation is us, with our big fingers and limited senses.
I don’t know what OS you’ve been running but the Win8 preview we’ve been running in my department is the worst OS we’ve ever seen. We’ve been alternating between laughing at what a POS it is, and being terrified of the idea of having to deploy it.
MS has at least 6 months of work to do before it’s enterprise-ready.
And the very first thing they need to do is set an option for AD domains to disable Metro and re-enable the Start bar.
And also, not be so obvious about the fact that they ripped off Metro from tablet Android.