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Microsoft Prepares Rethink On Windows 8

Posted by Soulskill on from the hey-everybody-let's-complain-about-the-start-menu-some-more dept.

jones_supa writes "Microsoft has confirmed to be preparing to reverse course over elements of Windows 8. 'Key aspects' of how the software is used will be changed when Microsoft releases an updated version of the operating system this year, Tami Reller, head of marketing and finance for the Windows business, said in an interview with the Financial Times. Referring to difficulties many users have had with mastering the software, she added: 'The learning curve is definitely real.'" While this decision is generally being framed as a frantic backtrack for Microsoft, it comes as the company has recently passed 100 million Windows 8 licenses sold. Clearly they see this as more of a course adjustment than bailing water from a sinking ship. Microsoft also plans to preview the update called 'Windows Blue' in June.

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  1. Re:Anonymous Coward rethinks Frosty Piss by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft is misspelling things again.

    It's spelled "Windows Blue", but pronounced "Windows Blew".

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  2. Re:Not One? by Psyko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows 8: We Blue it...

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  3. Re:Not One? by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will boot up into the Blue screen of death?

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  4. Disappointed by Howitzer86 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, I am disappointed. I sure hope Microsoft, in their mad rush to undo the damage they perceive, doesn't ruin the touch experience on the touch screen computers out there already.

  5. Re:Not One? by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Funny

    Saves time that way.

  6. Re:Anonymous Coward rethinks Frosty Piss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't speak for anyone else, but I automatically associate "Windows Blue" with "Blue Screen of Death". I literally can't help it, it's the first thing that pops into my mind.

  7. Re:Anonymous Coward rethinks Frosty Piss by thomst · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jeremiah Cornelius posited:

    Microsoft is misspelling things again.

    It's spelled "Windows Blue", but pronounced "Windows Blew".

    No, no, no.

    There's nothing past tense about it.

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  8. Re:The betting pool is now open... by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    I do not think Microsoft is as arrogant as people on this very anti-MS site make it them out to be.

    Of course they are.
    It takes an ego massive enough to bend light to release an update named "Windows Blue" without realizing the next two words in everyone's heads will be "screen" and "death".

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