Microsoft To Switch Focus To Windows 8 In July 2010

An anonymous reader noted a bit from Ars saying Microsoft will be switching internal focus from Windows 7 to Windows 8 in fiscal year 2010. Microsoft's fiscal year starts in July, which is only eight months away. According to Microsoft's roadmaps, the release of Windows 8 is scheduled for 2012."

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Windows 8..

[headhot]

The Ocho!

Re:Windows 8..

[sdnoob]

... my data

Re:Windows 8..

[Anonymous Coward]

You must be new to Slashdot. Here's an overview of how users tend to respond to the more common types of articles posted:

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• stfu n00b, ms > all
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2012

[Anonymous Coward]

2012 OMG.... Always kinda knew it would be Microsoft to end the world...

Price Appropriately

[areusche]

I feel like I have been spoiled by the solid 6 years of time XP was on the market. I literally remember using XP in 8th grade and running it well up to my sophomore year of college. That is a HUGE amount of time. Microsoft can make huge gains by keeping the price of upgrades cheap. Cheap meaning 30-50$. They will have a happy pirate free user if they did that.

Re:Price Appropriately

[bmajik]

$30 is about what the os, in its MAX config, is worth. any os.

When you discover Austrian economics, you'll learn that there is no such concept as intrinsic value. So this statement is meaningless about any good or service. It might be meaningful for YOU for RIGHT NOW, but the notion of value is time and observer dependant.

linux, freebsd, opensolaris: all free and all way more stable.

And all miss certain desktop scenarios that windows nails, which is why everyone on the planet hasn't simultaneously said "OMG -- why do i keep paying money for windows when *nix does EVERYTHING I NEED EXACTLY THE WAY I WANT"

paying $100+ for an o/s is so 1990's.

Given the amount of inflation between now and then, even paying $250 for an OS today is "so 1990s".

The idea that the operating system on your computer -- the thing that actually lets it do useful things -- isn't worth dinner for 2 at a national-chain resturant (your $30 figure) is completely hillarious. You honestly would rather forego the last 30 years of personal computer history and instead have 1 dinner for two?

I think "an" OS is easily worth $100 or more per year to me. I'd skip dining out 4 times a year to have one. It's nice that there are free choices available, and in some cases I use those free choices since the marginal utility benefits of pay-ware doesn't justify the marginal cost increase for my scenarios.

I think it must be a common fallacy amongst f/oss zealouts that they feel like the only people that must be clued-in, and that if only the rest of the planet would "discover" that there are free operating systems out there, Windows and other commercial operating systems would vanish.

I suspect that the major vendors and Fortune 500 companies are very well aware of free software and what its advantages and disadvantages are, and have conciously chosen to continue using Windows for the majority of what they do based on a value analysis. I also suspect that they continually re-visit this analysis [and this accounts for things like the Wal-Mart and Dell linux machines..]

I think it's fair to guess that most people paying for windows figure it is worth 75% or more [to them] of what they're paying for it.

So I don't find your post insightful at all. You don't understand economics, and your assessment of value seems very contrived to me... based on ideology rather than reality.

Re:Scheduled for release in 2012?

[mister_playboy]

Isn't this late 2009? How is late 2012 four years later?

Are you doing math on a Pentium?

Isn't this late 2009? Are you still telling jokes about the original Pentium?