Re:Microsoft's big (unmentioned) problem with Windows 8
by pedalpete on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:17PM
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i 've thought the reason Microsoft has to announce earlier than apple is because the hardware partners need the extra lead time. Apple has the luxury of working software and hardware in parallel, Microsoft and to some extent android gets shown to select partners on a very long lead time, and then gets released to everybody about 10 months to a year early.
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Re:Microsoft's big (unmentioned) problem with Windows 8
by rbanffy on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:22PM
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Another reason is to assure their corporate clients they don't have to move to Apple or Linux just now because their next OS will be well ahead of their competition. And that with everyone betting on the demise of the desktop, storage-heavy PC.
Windows Server 8 will face competition from RHEL 7, Ubuntu Server 11.10 (or 12.04) and FreeBSD and OpenSolaris-based OSs (ZFS is great).
It will be ugly.
Re:Microsoft's big (unmentioned) problem with Windows 8
by pedalpete on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:43PM
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can you explain why the newest breed of linux will be any more threatening to Microsoft than the last?
I don't think corporations have ever thought they 'have to move to apple or linux" the challenge is will they upgrade from windows 7. The tablet capabilities will help, and for the most part I don't think there is much other tablet capabilities in other devices.
Re:Microsoft's big (unmentioned) problem with Windows 8
by rbanffy on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @04:24PM
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Why would they have to be more threatening than they use to be? Windows is losing share, mostly on servers. I look around me and Macs are more popular desktops and laptops than they were last year. And the year before.
It won't be fast and Windows desktops and servers won't disappear (or even become a small niche) overnight, but I don't see Windows regaining its lost popularity.