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CowboyTeal writes:
"Windows 8 is still being disputed as either the product of a genius or a nerdy sadist but that doesn't mean Windows 9 isn't in the works. That said, how would you guys improve Windows if you could change anything about it? Has windows 8 improved or degraded your overall experience of the Windows platform? If you're not a Windows user, what features would you like to see in Windows for possible assimilation?"
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QOTD:
The forest may be quiet, but that doesn't mean
the snakes have gone away.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by gishzida on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:30PM
What is the advantage to a content creator to have something that is not useful [other than to push up the price] What is the value added to pay an extra $200 for something that is not needed? [no killer apps in MS app space... all of the innovative "creative performance" apps stuff is iPad / iOS based]. The Dual Xeon Quad Core workstation on my desk is not a tablet and I don't use it for tablet like things.
In addition to the desktops I have quite a few tablet / smart phones... all of them running Android. Why just android? Cost. Features. Design.... and innovation. I have not bought into the Apple mystique as I don't particularly like the garden they are keeping.
MS is playing a catch-up game and so far it keeps stumbling... Vista... then Win 8.0. I am not sold on the idea that MS can actually pull of a transformation to an "Apple clone". The point is why are they trying to do that? Do they really have their ducks in a row to actually beat Apple and Google? I remain unconvinced that becoming more like Apple helps.
MS might be better off if they focus the Xbox line and make Xbox and RT synonymous... and leave the windows desktop / server / app space a part of the "enterprise space". The problem with their becoming a "hardware company that competes with their OEMs is that it gives the OEM motivation to out innovate MS as Samsung is trying to do to Apple. The net result is that OEMs are breaking their necks to bring out "useful" CromeBooks or Android laptops which undercuts MS in the tablet space.
So back on point... MS needs to actually do something innovative. Buying Nokia does not make Microsoft into Samsung. Sure they can make money... but Nokia has been taking a beating from the Smart Phone vendors and long term is a losing proposition. Forcing a mobile OS UI onto the desktop is unwise and unwarranted... whereas it just might work with an XboxOS set top computer. Or an "XboxBook". Ultimately I don't much care what MS does... except I'd hate to see them continue to stumble... because before long they will take a fall and stay that way... and I will be sad if that happens.