Microsoft Trying To Woo Businesses To Windows 8

jfruh writes "Windows 8 is the most radical rewrite of Microsoft's operating system in decades — and most of the changes are aimed at consumers and new tablet form-factors. Meanwhile, corporate IT is deeply suspicious. Over at Microsoft TechEd Europe, the company is gamely trying to explain to enterprises why they should switch, with easy-to-write enterprise apps and the ability to stream server-side x86 apps to Windows RT. Not everyone is convinced."

Comments

Fat chance.

[Anonymous Coward]

We're still about a year away from mass deploying Windows 7 Enterprise with our upcoming lease swap. I highly doubt we'll even think about touching Windows 8 for a while after that. I have a better chance of getting laid in the next 5 years.

Re:Fat chance.

[inode_buddha]

I don't doubt it one bit. After all, Debian had 2 releases since the last time I had any. And yes that fact was quite depressing at the time. I now measure my "laid" interval in debian-releases.

Re:Fat chance.

[EdIII]

At least you have an interval, which implies more than one instance per lifetime.

That makes you ahead of the curve here I think......

Re:Fat chance.

[UnknownSoldier]

Oblg. :-)

http://xkcd.com/605/

Re:Fat chance.

[hairyfeet]

Well you see, that is your problem, you were using debian!

Me I got laid less than a month ago right before i broke up with my last GF, and I currently have two different women flirting with me! How can that be you ask? why listen to your old pal Hairyfeet and look into the world of Windows PC repair!

Yes Windows PC repair, where the OS sure as hell isn't geek, but then again neither are the women! You want to see a happy female boys you just fix the machine that feeds her FB games crack habit and watch how her face lights up!

Remember boys,you don't need to be handsome as long as you're handy! And thanks to millions of women addicted to FB worse than Charlie Sheen is addicted to coke and whores you'll never have a shortage of cute little things to chat up in the wonderful world of Windows PC repair!

Windows 8

[Terracotta122]

Windows 8 VS AOL http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/5192012043239windows8vsaol.jpeg

Contracts

[Anonymous Coward]

Our IT guys have an agreement in their employment contract that they'd be executed if they brought that monstrosity anywhere near our computers. They're comfortable with that and suggested extending the same proviso to senior management.

I am going to push my company to adopt Win8

[elabs]

I am going to have my team begin development on Win8 applications right away and push for hardware to test and develop on. Hopefully this will trickle down to the rest of the company and the IT staff.

Linux's Moment Coming Up

[Anonymous Coward]

And this article demonstrates why Linux is about to go all bukake all over Microsoft's face.

Re:Good reason to be wary

[steelfood]

Fortunately, if it's just a GUI rewrite, and the new user interface was just an alternative to the norm or a fancy wrapper over the old interface, there wouldn't be any such issues.

Oh wait.

Re:Dating

[Anonymous Coward]

I am dating win7 and she is good for me

She? Then how come MS customers are the ones bent over and taking it up the ass?

Or vagina.

Re:You gotta be kidding!

[BronsCon]

Still working at her age? Guess she should've saved for retirement, huh?

Windows $NEXT_VERSION will floor all comers

[David Gerard]

I would like to see REAL reasons!

Guest post by Mary-Jo Enderle

BORG CUBE, RedMonk, Tuesday (NNGadget) — I have seen the future: Windows $NEXT_VERSION Milestone $MOCKUP.

I tried it on a low-end laptop with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.

WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like "FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! — the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved Ribbon user interface from Office $HATED_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!

The controversial Digital Rights Management system in $CURRENT_VERSION has been worked over, with user-downloadable "tilt bits," which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.

A public beta should be released by the end of this year. There's just no way that Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on $CURRENT_VERSION release day — the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets — in the shade.

I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.

Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!

I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.

Re:SSDs are killing the hardware upgrade treadmill

[Bert64]

Disturbingly enough, my Amiga 3000 from 1990 is faster than any modern hardware for "booting the os"... And it doesn't have any remotely modern hardware anywhere near it.