Re:Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems
by 7952 on Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:48AM
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The folks at Microsoft must know that enterprise was never ever going to deploy Windows 8. If you need to test a new feature set why not test it on home users who have no choice? Then in five years time sell a polished windows tablet to business as peoples old laptops die.
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Re:Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems
by mpg33 on Thursday December 05, 2013 @11:01AM
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There will always be a need to have fully functional work environment OS such as windows 7/mac os x/linux....Android/iOS/Windows 8 are for the mainstream users who just want to check email/text/watch youtube.
The confusion of windows 8 is that it's trying to have 2 different ui systems...
Mac OS X seems to have done a decent job of slowing integrating some features from iOS (app store, notifications) without without copying and pasting the iOS ui system into it
Re:Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems
by T-A on Thursday December 05, 2013 @01:22PM
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I am genuinely curious: have you ever actually used Windows 8? I mean more than just clicking around it a few minutes. I ask because I find it hard to imagine somebody who actually uses it ever referring to "Android/iOS/Windows 8", as if they were roughly equivalent.
I currently spend most of my time on a Windows 8.1 desktop with more than 20 different languages and development environments installed. I never "check email/text" on it, and only rarely use it to watch YouTube (have other boxes for that). To me, the "Modern" UI is little more than a souped-up Start menu.
The misunderstanding that Windows 8 is somehow a lesser Windows is getting old. After more than a year of general availability, surely somebody on HN should know better.