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Windows: Not Doomed Yet

Posted by Soulskill on from the cash-on-hand-is-a-wonderful-buoy dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "Earlier this week, ZDNet columnist Steven Vaughan-Nichols wrote an article, 'Windows: It's over,' that sparked a lot of passionate online debate. His thesis was simple: Microsoft's dominance of the computing market is coming to an end, accelerated by the incipient failure of Windows 8. Make no mistake about it: there's no way to fudge the numbers in a way that suggests Windows 8 is proving a blockbuster. But maybe it's not doomsday for Windows or Microsoft. After all, the company still has a lot of really smart developers and engineers, a whole ton of cash, and the ability to let its projects play out over years. So here's the question, Slashdotters: Is Windows really doomed? And, if not, what can be done to turn things around? (No originality points awarded for a 'Fire Steve Ballmer' response.)"

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  1. Re:What trend? by Luckyo · · Score: -1, Troll

    These are pretty much the same kind of PR bullshit claims that were made with most windows releases.

    Reality: every version of windows also brought enough new bloat to make it slower then predecessor after accounting for all the "wonderful new features that make it faster".

    Essentially you're that idiot that looks at the paper to see plus six minus eight, someone tells him "but hey, this six consists of this wonderful one, amazing two and innovative three. They make the end result completely end up as a net positive!".
    The fact that eight is still bigger then six and end result is minus two is lost in the ignorance. It's just like the bullshit we got fed about 7 having such wonderful memory management in comparison to XP. Only to find out that every single game that came out for both asked for one extra gigabyte of RAM for 7 in comparison to XP. Because after all the improvements, 7 was still so bloated that it ended up in a net negative. Same goes for eight.

    So please, stop quoting marketing bullshit and understand that in the end it's all that it is - marketing bullshit. It's designed to obfuscate reality in pretty image it wants to sell you. And buying this image does in fact make you a stupid person. Because everyone who used windows has stepped on this rake before. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...