At least that’s the early buzz, but you’ll probably have to wait until at least early 2015.
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GOOD!
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Why am I supposed to want a unified OS again?
This sounds an awful lot like Windows trying to be Apple. Pretty soon I’ll only be allowed to buy computers made by microsoft that only runs programs made by microsoft through markets microsoft completely controls and censors and then for some reason they’ll make it so that I can’t use my cell phone because that needs to be integrated with a bunch of features I didn’t ask for and didn’t want on my desktop and the whole thing will get more and more bloated and fucktarded until we all go for some sort of new google OS or linux starts looking like a viable alternative.
I thought Windows 8.1 was supposed to bring back the Start Menu and Microsoft already had a whole new OS coming down the pipeline…
8.1 brought back the Start button, not the start menu. The 8.1 start button does nothing but bring up the Metro interface.
I know he’s not really at the helm anymore, but I’d love to see Bill Gates in a black turtleneck trying to wow an audience with a new feature that was introduced 18 years ago.
Here’s hoping you don’t drive a Ford.
What you are worrying about has nothing to do with what they mean by a “unified OS.” All they mean is the same interface design can run on multiple devices. It has nothing to do with keeping you from using other applications.
The idea is just that you won’t have to relearn how to use every digital device you get. And, BTW, Linux is currently the MOST unified OS, as it can run on pretty much any device. (Granted, the only unified interface is the command line, but still.)
I bought windows 8 on launch week online, because I wanted to be on the ground floor of that one.
I got used to not having a start button, and then windows 8.1 brought back something that looks like a start button. You don’t need one any more! Why is that there? I don’t understand how this is frustrating people. Bringing back a start button must be pandering to the same idiots who freak out every time Facebook changes its layout, too. Change is bad, I guess.
If I want to learn a new interface, I’ll get Ubuntu and learn Linux. Fuck Microstiffie. The only reason I got a Technet subscription and have keys for virtually every single OS they produce and most of their software products is so that I don’t have to be bothered with stupid shit like that.
Change is great if it makes things easier for me. It doesn’t make things easier when it FORCES me to do things a certain way without giving me the chance to adapt at my own pace. There is simply no logical reason why Microsoft couldn’t have preserved some backward compatibility with W7 in terms of how you launch programs - ABSOLUTELY NONE!!! It was a conscious choice on their part and a monumentally stupid one that has caused this version of windows to have the lowest adoption rate in fucking history.
If you think this isn’t one of the reasons that Paul Allen is out on his fat ass, think again.
I don’t buy it. This is never the trajectory these things seem to go in. And this sounds like a business model decision to me, not an engineering and design decision. After all, who here really struggles that much with their desktop because it doesn’t work exactly like their cell phone? And the entire thing makes no sense if you want an apple phone and a windows computer. All it’s going to do is cause further problems when working with different devices and limit choices. And limiting choices sounds like a good business plan when you’re currently the number OS and quickly losing ground to competitors who are able to design an OS on devices that you don’t already control.
Windows controlled the market for a very long time and the barriers to entry and economies of scale too high for another OS. Then cell phones came along and all of a sudden a company like google was able to get in on the action. As more and more devices open up there will be more chances to enter the market. All good news for consumers, but bad news for windows. I’m not a fan of this.
Windows 8.1 introduced me to mouse freeze. still not fixed that. I would sign up for anything to get past that problem
That’s probably the dumbest thing I’ll hear all week.
Seriously, who gets in “on the ground floor” of a Microsoft OS release, especially an even numbered one? The smart money’s on waiting at least six months, if not a year or two, for them to work out all the bugs and problems they introduced with the over-reaching stuff that they shoved in at the last second because it’s pretty.
That’s kind of insulting. I’m not stupid and change doesn’t bother me just because it’s different. What I did not like was how hard it seemed to do the simplest of things in Windows 8. For good or ill, decades of use have trained people to use Windows a certain way; they should have considered that when designing it.
Would you mind elaborating on what you’re having difficulty with? I cannot even fathom.
I’m not surprised by this - I quite like Windows 8 for personal use (I hardly use the modern UI apps though), but in the workplace, it’s left people wondering what to do next.
Despite enthusiastic predictions about the death of desktop devices and the tablet revolution, the plain fact is that a good deal of the grunt work of business computing still takes place on desktop computers, using applications that are not suited to touchscreens and mobile devices.
Windows 8 has given software suppliers a nudge in the direction of supporting tablet devices - and maybe that will result in a greater proportion of business computing being made possible for tablets, but for now, anyone supporting a collection of desktop applications on Wndows 7 is looking for the next desktop OS solution, not a complete change in the way everything works.
Yeah, it’s like hearing somebody brag about how they sent their money order to a Nigerian prince priority mail so he’d get it before all the others.
And Microsoft is a good thing. Keep saying that or Steve Ballmer will send you to the corn field.
People aren’t complaining about Windows 8 because change is bad. People are complaining about Windows 8 because Windows 8 is bad. There was no similar chorus of complaints about Windows 7 or other “good” versions of Windows.
How is it better to have to relearn how to use devices we already knew how to use? Microsoft should have developed an operating system that was designed for the device it was installed on.
Oh yeah? Well, would a dumbass buy a Sega Dreamcast on launch day?!?
Oh, wait…