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Re:Unnoficial design concept for Windows 9 by Swinx43 on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @06:20AM (#6481599)
Although this is a much better looking concept than what is currently available in Windows 8 I still do not understand how it solves anything for people who actually need to do development on these machines. I would hate to have to do development in an IDE such as Visual Studio or Eclipse while being restricted to this sort of interface.

Trying to force a tablet interface on a desktop machine is simply not acceptable. It makes matters even worse when you look at a server operating system such as Windows Server 2012. That is simply the biggest FAIL for an interface on a server OS I have ever seen.

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Re:Unnoficial design concept for Windows 9 by kbart on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @07:10AM (#6481746)
Reminds me of http://www.datamation.com/news/tech-comics-windows-8-1.html

I'm starting to get feeling, that Microsoft consciously abandons PC as a workstation with a fully functional OS model and moving towards dumb browser-only tablet-like terminal. And I bet that some cloud based, .NET like IDE for Windows developers is on their plans.

..and I'm sooo happy that I can do all my development work on Linux machine.

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Re:Unnoficial design concept for Windows 9 by Swinx43 on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @09:17AM (#6482178)
That sounds extremely likely if you look at the way they are going. I completely agree that I have never looked back since I started using Linux instead. If I truly need a Windows machine I will spin up a virtual machine.
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Re:Unnoficial design concept for Windows 9 by xylem on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @06:32AM (#6481641)
> In the brand new Visual Studio 2015 keyboard support has been dropped so that we could focus on delivering state-of-the-art handwriting recognition algorithms so that you can easily develop even the most complex applications with nothing more than a single finger or a stylus.
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