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Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment?
theodp writes "Remember New Coke? Twenty-eight years ago, Coca-Cola replaced the secret formula of its flagship brand, only to announce the return of the "classic" formula just 79 days later. Had it launched in 2013, Coke's Jay Moye suspects a social media backlash would have prompted it to reverse itself even sooner. In a timely follow-up, ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols points out that Microsoft is facing its own New Coke moment with Windows 8. 'Does Ballmer have the guts to admit he made a mistake and give users what they clearly want?' Vaughan-Nichols asks. 'While it's too late for Windows 8, Blue might give us back our Start button and an Aero-like interface. We don't know.'"
I've both used windows vista & windows 8 a lot, and both are very decent versions of windows. Vista was very stable & fast for the time i used it (a few years), and now i've got windows 8, and i like the look, and it's extremely fast :). The new start menu is a bit of getting used to, and there are some improvements possible, but it's a very decent first attempt, and i'd rather have them improve that, than keep that old start menu alive forever because people are so afraid of change -_-.
And seriously, all the stupid things you read about it on slashdot are just ridiculous. it's not because we now got a tablet friendly start menu that allows some basic applications in it, that the entire desktop and every single other feature of windows suddenly disappeared, there still is a desktop, windows, multitasking, ... just some fancier start menu that's strange at the start, but works pretty well. and when my family sees me using it, they seem fairly positive, the change to the new system is only a week of getting used to it.
For all the intelligence that people always say is here, why do you all have to act like conservative bigots when it's about windows?? both vista & 8 are decent windowses, and all the fuss about them is just plain ridiculous -_-.
The Desktop market is shrinking in favor of tablets and smartphones. Two areas where apple has strong products (One could argue they created those markets).
...and then gave those markets away to Android...to remain vastly profitable in those...are we seeing a patten.
These are the latest numbers from IDC - Smartphones http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24085413 tablets - http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24093213 spin the numbers however you want we both know where the argument goes
The only sad thing about your comment is Apple could reinvigorate the Desktop market...but they are just going to as Dellboy would say Give the money back to the shareholders.
Indeed. Slashdot users are known for their amazing liking of walled garden software systems, hyper-controlled OS environments, and overpriced crap. Don't even get me started on their customers. It's amazing those butt-scratching apes can find their way to the Apple store or operate a motor vehicle. I cannot believe people would still pay an absurd 2-3x price premium for a system that is 6th in laptop quality, can catch viruses quite often, can run practically no software from a percentage standpoint, is a complete joke at video editing with no CUDA, and releases a paid update that breaks everything one a year. Windows is like Linux by comparison. It's that bad!