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Gut-Check Time For Windows 8, Microsoft

Posted by timothy on from the you'll-feel-a-slight-pinch dept.

theodp writes "GeekWire reports that, for better or worse, the upcoming week is shaping up as one of the most pivotal in Microsoft's history, as the software giant makes its pitch for Windows 8 at two important conferences. First, Microsoft will be huddling with hardware and software developers beginning Tuesday at its sold-out BUILD conference ('BUILD will show you that Windows 8 changes everything'), where it's rumored that Samsung will unveil a Windows 8 tablet. And on Wednesday, CEO Steve Ballmer and other execs will be holding the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting, which was delayed from its traditional summer date to allow the company to put its Windows 8 strategy in context for Wall Street. So, are we about to finally see the realization of Microsoft's vision for Information at Your Fingertips (Part 2), which Bill Gates introduced with a hokey video at Comdex 1994?"

6 of 516 comments (clear)

  1. HUrl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I woke up in the wrong universe today. Bill Gates? Microsoft? Microsoft died in 1996 in my universe. And this 9/11 thing? Wow. Need to get back to my universe, pronto! All hail GNU. Love live RMS!

  2. Re:Keep Selling Windows 7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Windows 7 is a nice operating system for toys, and its licenses are selling well.

    There, fixed that for you. ;)

  3. It won't be for lack of shills by kurt555gs · · Score: 0, Troll

    The paid M$ shills are at it already. They are quick on the trigger in this post. I wonder where Bonch is? Sleeping?

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    * Carthago Delenda Est *
  4. Re:Tablets, Phones, and what's wrong with XP or wi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Too little too late in phones and tablets"

    THIS.

    The desktop PC Is a dying platform. The average person is increasingly moving to smartphones an iPads to get away from the viruses, driver problems, malware, and other crap that infests Windows desktops.

    It's too late for MS. To paraphrase B5, the avalanch has started, and it's too late for the pebbles to vote. The world had a few decades of Wintel, and it doesn't want to have more.

  5. Re:Keep Selling Windows 7 by jasmusic · · Score: 0, Troll

    Spare your bitterness and learn C++, and if you work hard enough maybe someday Linux will support networks without needing a text editor.

  6. Pathetic by J.+L.+Tympanum · · Score: -1, Troll

    After many years of working primarily with Linux, I am using Windows 7 in my new job. All I can say is, it is pathetic. Nothing works the way it should. I have to spend hours searching the web to find out how to do anything with it. The whole concept of "libraries" is ridiculous. It is so jumbled up I can never find where my files have been stored. Directories I never created just appear out of nowhere. Not to mention that both Excel and Word have crashed on me several times. And I'm not doing anything particularly interesting with them.

    My assessment of Microsoft has not changed since the early days of MSDOS: it is a triumph of marketing over technology.