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Windows 8 Killing PC Sales
yl-roller writes "IDC says Windows 8 is partly to blame for PC sales suffering the largest percentage drop ever. 'As if that news wasn't' troubling enough, it appears that a pivotal makeover of Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows operating system seems to have done more harm than good since the software was released last October.' According to a ZDNet article, IDC originally expected a drop, but only half the size."
I was amazed to hear they are moving this company (200k+ employees) over to Gmail for emails and contacts as well as a bunch of other things.
This pretty much means you aren't in any industry that has government contracts, or deals with health care in any way, or a bunch of other industries that require some guarantees of data protection. And, that you don't want to do business with such companies.
I've also learned that having e-mail that requires your ISP connection to be up and not overloaded is not a good thing. The CEO doesn't care that somebody is downloading service packs or new software versions that are important for your business when he can't connect to the e-mail server to send a message. Also, that 1MB attachment (a photo from the company picnic) that he put in the e-mail to "all employees" will now cost you 209GB of ISP bandwidth for your 200K+ people to download.
I often wonder what will happen first: Microsoft/Apple realising the error of their ways and making a useful UI, or users collectively sighing and sucking up the crap they are given.
Ah, a Linux fan. It's been a while... tell me, can you actually copy and paste from anywhere to anywhere yet? It used to depend on what API a particular app had been coded with. Heck the UI for copy paste wasn't even the same between apps. For some it was the middle mouse button!?!
Does it still ask you where and how big to make a "swap file" when you install, and expect you to know about partitions?
Does it still use bizarre and unguessable names for apps, even the core ones like the one to set up basic system options?
There's a reason Linux never caught up on the desktop. And it's not because people are stupid. It's because no-one with any user design skills ever had enough control over Linux to make it half-decent to use.