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Microsoft's CEO Says He Wants to Unify Windows

Posted by samzenpus on from the by-your-powers-combined dept.

Deathspawner writes A lot of people have never been able to understand the logic behind Microsoft's Windows RT, with many urging the company to kill it off so that it can focus on more important products, like the mainline Windows. Well, this is probably not going to come as a huge surprise, especially in light of mass layoffs announced last week, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that his company will be working to combine all Windows versions into a unified release by next year.

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  1. Best Wishes ! by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hope that he has a better luck in unifying Windows than those who wanted to unify Unixes

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    1. Re:Best Wishes ! by Cryacin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Meet the new boss. Same as the boss before the old boss.

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    2. Re:Best Wishes ! by techno-vampire · · Score: 4, Funny

      From what I've heard, the current UI for Windows was designed for a tablet, then forced onto desktops, but that's just hearsay because, as I wrote above, I only use Linux.

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    3. Re:Best Wishes ! by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd love to see a single UI that works across...

      Microsoft have already done that. In Windows 8 they unified the Windows interface around the design for the vast number of Windows cellphones out there, leaving the totally insignificant Windows desktop/laptop market to wither. The overwhelming market response has justified this decision, in as little as twenty years Windows 8 could even overtake XP.

  2. Yay.. This is easy to imagine by brxndxn · · Score: 5, Funny

    In typical Microsoft "All heads in our asses" fashion, they release Windows 8 with two completely separate UI's.. One doesn't work at all for desktop.. and the other barely works for desktop. Hell.. opening a PDF in Windows 8 is still a goddamn nightmare.

    Now that they're unifying Windows, we know exactly what the customer wants:
    1. UI separate from kernel (vector graphic UI for desktops, 2d UI for battery-powered devices)
    2. Ability to customize installation (ie.. Windows embedded version, Windows business edition, Windows uber Gamer edition, Windows "I install Weatherbug and other stupid applications" edition, Windows "Gimme the shitty Widnows 8 UI" edition)
    3. Ability to control data usage (ie.. Windows "I'm being charged for the amount of data because AT&T and Verizon are shitty companies edition")

    What will we get:
    1. METRO 80's colors EDITION
    2. Cannot multitask edition
    3. Super fucking bloated edition
    4. We changed shit because we wanted to change shit and good fucking luck finding it edition
    5. We give you errors if you're not connected to the Internet edition
    6. We update your computer when you're trying to turn it off and take it with you edition

    Bleh.. this was a minimal effort bitch session.. Microsoft already knows they suck and we only buy Windows because it's pretty much forced on us

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  3. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you must have heard this when reading the writings of Isildur, after the battle of Dagorlad.

          Windows Three for the Elven-kings under the sky,
            Windows Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
            Windows Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
            One Windows for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
            In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

            One Windows to rule them all, One Windows to find them,
            One Windows to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

            In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

  4. Windows Godzilla ! by gelfling · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only 1.5 TB and it will run on ANYTHING (with 8x8 core processors and 32GB of RAM). Of course it still comes in 24 different variations that all licensed differently.