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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. Re:Best Wishes ! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    History isn't encouraging, though. They've been pursuing the dream of one windows to rule them all since the days when that involved smearing a crude layer of flayed win95 across winCE and pretending it was a good fit for PDAs.

    Now that hardware has advanced they have a much better shot at architectural unification (if memory serves, NT has basically edged out everything else except for whatever CE support they provide for legacy customers); but UI? That won't go well.

  2. Re:Best Wishes ! by techno-vampire · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    You might, but I, at least, wouldn't because what you'd end up with was a UI that worked equally badly on all types of screens and wasn't really right for any of them. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, preferring to use Linux, but I will say that they're right in not trying to shoehorn a One True UI onto everything.

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  3. Re:Death bell tolling for thee.... by plopez · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it was a good idea Apple would have done it long ago ;)

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