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Windows Phone Free-Fall May Force Microsoft To Push Harder On Windows 10 (pcworld.com)
tripleevenfall quotes a report from PCWorld: Microsoft sold a minuscule 2.3 million Lumia phones last quarter, down from 8.6 million a year ago. Phone revenue declines will only "steepen" during the current quarter, chief financial officer Amy Hood warned during a conference call. That's dragged down Microsoft's results as a company, too. As the company's mobile device strategy continues to disintegrate, Microsoft may feel compelled to push harder on Windows 10 adoption and paid services to prove it can survive without a viable smartphone. CEO Satya Nadella's strategy is simple enough: grow Microsoft's revenues by convincing customers to adopt its paid subscription services.
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I'd consider paying for Microsoft Linux. Basically it would be desktop/workstation Linux, but without a lot of the stupidity we've seen lately. It wouldn't have systemd. It wouldn't have Unity or GNOME 3. It wouldn't have PulseAudio and NetworkManager.
They could use new technology, like Mir, but couple it with a sensible init system (it doesn't have to be sysvinit; just not systemd!), and maybe an updated version of Xfce ported to Qt (since Qt is way better than GTK+). It would use Linux and open source software that works, without using a lot of the newer shit that doesn't work.
Most important of all, I'd want them to port Edge to this Microsoft Linux distro. I've used Edge on Windows, and it's much nicer than Firefox or Chrome. If it was available for Linux, I'd be very happy! It's fast, it's sleek, and it's standards-compliant.
In some sense it would be a return to their Xenix days.
I am eagerly looking forward to reading about how amazing the Windows phone is and how everyone should own one. Every time there is a Windows phone article there end up being more positive comments about the windows phone than there are real life window phone users.
How would they do it?! It already installs itself on any >win6 box if you miss a mandatory "nooooooooooo, fuck off"-click every hour!
I'll never subscribe to any piece of software. Ever.
Seriously... Harder?
I doubt Microsoft can push Windows 10 any harder than they have.
But I'm afraid to find out that I'm wrong.
In related links at the bottom of the page is a story "10 killed at Umpqua Community College" from October. Related how? Did they use Windows phones?
I am eagerly looking forward to reading about how amazing the Windows phone is and how everyone should own one. Every time there is a Windows phone article there end up being more positive comments about the windows phone than there are real life window phone users.
Windows Phones ARE awesome! They even come with an undocumented Terahertz scanner that takes pictures of you naked through your clothing and automatically uploads them to Microsoft for safe keeping, Windows 10 after all. Cortana will even analyze your nude pics and adjust her attitude towards you based on her opinion of them. And if you then DON'T Shill for the MS Phone you are at risk for your nude pics "anonymously" getting uploaded to various public sites, along with reviews of them.
But here's the LINK
Kill it with fire!
Microsoft may feel compelled to push harder on Windows 10 adoption and paid services to prove it can survive without a viable smartphone.
Which makes me wonder: why did MS think it needs a viable smartphone (smartphone OS?) just to survive, and why do other people think this as well forcing MS to prove the opposite?
Maybe they should have a good look at OS-X, Mint and Ubuntu, get some good ideas on how to design a proper modern OS (ssh out of the box would be awesome, both command prompt and a way to easily connect to sftp servers which only Windows fails at nowadays), and make Windows desirable again. They for sure have the money and manpower available to pull that off. No need for their own smart phone. It may even work well on tablets. Just make sure it can connect again with the rest of the world!
As the company's mobile device strategy continues to disintegrate, Microsoft may feel compelled to push harder on Windows 10 adoption and paid services to prove it can survive without a viable smartphone.
Microsoft throughout its history has never been profitable in regard to selling its own smartphones. To the contrary, its smartphone division has always been a money drain and it looks like they will stop bleeding soon by killing off Windows 10 Mobile. And since the number of smartphones running Windows 10 Mobile is about to become zero in the nearest future, I don't understand why Microsoft will have to push Windows 10 harder.
Well, I'm not obsessed with the 1990s-era hatred for Microsoft like some people here are. I also realize that the Microsoft today consists of many people who weren't there in the 1990s, and many of the people who were around in the 1990s no longer are. The name may be the same, but the people who make up the organization are markedly different. After all, the 1990s were around 20 years ago now! If there's one thing I've learned in my many years, it's that things change over time.
I look at Microsoft's actions today, because those are what matter. I've seen them create what's perhaps the best general purpose programming language in C#. I've seen them create what's perhaps the best general purpose computing platform in .NET. They've open sourced both and are porting them to the other major platforms. They stumbled with Windows 8, but Windows 10 is getting them back on track. Edge is a superb browser that's much, much better than Firefox, and better than Chrome. Recently they announced that SQL Server, which is perhaps their best product of them all, is coming to Linux.
It's time for you to grow up, and get with the times. You're two decades behind! Microsoft was the past, and after a brief rough patch we've seen them turn things around, and now Microsoft will be the future.
They swear they didn't click on anything to start the "upgrade". It started on its own. Luckily there's still a point where you can reject the EULA, and then it reverts the installation, and this actually worked, so in the end it only cost a couple of hours and a concerned call to the local nerd. But seriously, how much harder can Microsoft push that ...thing.
...CEO Satya Nadella's strategy is simple enough: grow Microsoft's revenues by convincing customers to adopt its paid subscription services....
Microsoft has already stated that they intend to make Windows 10 a service.
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Now Microsoft is saying that they want to move away from the "buy once" revenue model.
So how long before there is a monthly fee to use Windows?
Perhaps the enormous data harvesting is only the first of many egregious aspects of Windows 10.
“There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform on fire. In mere moments, he was surrounded by flames. Through the smoke and heat, he barely made his way out of the chaos to the platform’s edge. When he looked down over the edge, all he could see were the dark, cold, foreboding Atlantic waters.
As the fire approached him, the man had mere seconds to react. He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters. The man was standing upon a “burning platform,” and he needed to make a choice.
In Microsoft's heyday, people would anxiously await the opportunity to pay $120 to upgrade to the new version. New bells, whistles, and blue screens.
Now many people are trying hard to avoid Microsoft's "upgrade" to Windows 10. More and more people go through the trouble of removing the Windows install that came with their computer, to replace it with a less troublesome OS. They want to get rid of Windows.
Microsoft's last-ditch solution is to try to get their few remaining hostages and fanboys to not only pay for MS software, but to keep paying again and again every month. I feel for anyone who's either stuck in a position where they have to keep paying every month for software most people don't even want for free, or who simply doesn't know any better, they're probably still paying $25/month for AOL too.
And Microsoft's effort to push people to Windows 10 will be just as successful.
While I could never recommend a Windows phone to anyone over its lack of apps, I am perfectly content with my Windows phone. I just mainly prefer Live Tiles to a grid of icons. I wonder, if all else fails, if they could create an Android-based phone, replacing the UI with their Modern UI and including Microsoft services on the device; then they would have their own unique phones that could leverage Android's library of apps. But I guess if they didn't have their own mobile store to generate money from, it'd probably just be better to pay other phone makers to put its apps and services on their phones.
Ever since you messed w/ the hosts file (when I confronted your senior mgt. here who ADMITTED I am right http://slashdot.org/comments.p... on your alterations to even Win7's hosts file disallowing the smaller/faster/more efficient 0 block address (which was added in 2000's SP#2 iirc, vs. the larger/slower ones in 0.0.0.0 (not as bad as ->) 127.0.0.1, & worse in VISTA onwards (since you're trying to be an advertiser like Google which Ballmer stated he wanted)).
So, why "F" w/ hosts? Simple - they can't be 'souled-out' bought up to advertisrs & work better than any addon ever will.
* Your forced installations of Win10 are just ruining you even more - don't you get it? You CANNOT sell people what they DO NOT WANT - wtf is wrong w/ your marketers - that's a BASIC TENET of sales!
APK
P.S.=> Don't wonder WHY you can't even GIVE IT AWAY & Vista + 8.x are "fails" too... see above! apk
I'm glad I sold my shares some time ago.
Windows becomes Spyware.
1.) radically change window 10
a.) make cloud/spy "features" optional and opt-in
b.) make the XP & 7 GUI availible (the GUI is not the fucking OS)
2.) offer WinXP & Vista Keys an Upgrade
3.) don't force users by circumventing the window update blocklist by changing the "update date" on the installer.
The children will come!
It is interesting. I think "What does Satya Nadella bring to the table in order to refresh the company's device strategy?"
What indeed.
How many times have we heard this before: "Microsoft may feel compelled to push harder on Windows 10 adoption"
Just replace "10" with 8, or 7 or XP, whatever older version was current then. It's the same story. Save the company by selling more Windows.
Satya is not a hardware man. He's a services guy. He's about as cool as your grandmother knitting tea cozies.
In order to sell more hardware, in order to even design new exciting hardware, you gotta make it cool. It has to be so fucking interesting, exciting, powerful, attractive that people will riot in the streets for their own device. Or, at the very least wrap around the block waiting to buy one.
As far as I know, no one is lining up to buy Microsoft hardware, windows or anything else they make.
Solution: Replace Satya with someone who is cool. With someone who wants to make cool hardware and software. With someone who isn't afraid. Satya is afraid of upsetting the board and investors. He's a mere caretaker, a place holder, a fill in.
I remember the day he was appointed CEO. There in Studio C was standing Satya, Balmer, Gates and some other stuffed shirts. I remember the look on Bill's face. It wasn't a good look.It was the look of "What the fuck did we just do?"
Don't worry Satya, you'll be OK. Just "have faith and use good karma". Right? Yea,that's working wonders.
"Apple's core customer base is interested in fashion accessories and status symbols". Not really, I work in science and we're filthy with Macs and iPhone and iPads, this is not status conscious community. They use the devices because they need to get work done. I recall one fellow finally making the switch from Winders to Mac, his comment to me was, "I feel like I own my computer again". I'm not entirely sure what MS is doing to their clientele, but that sentiment seems rife among scientists.
Microsoft makes phones? lol since when?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Karma in real life really gets you.
They could have the cheap borken product strategy -- no problem. The minute they started to see competitors as enemies to kill -- that's when things went sour.
Alas this is valid elsewhere in many industries: you can't share, you can't live.
You feel like you own your computer again with a Mac? Ironic. Perhaps you should read the EULA. I'm not sure what you're implying by invoking your career, but being a "scientist" doesn't make you immune from making bad emotional decisions. An Apple computer is a pretty bad objective decision when it comes to price, functionality, model choices, etc. Interesting that you and your colleagues primary consideration is "we just like it better" while simultaneously trying to defend against my claim that Apple computers are fashion accessories and emotional decisions.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I have a Dell laptop (XPS 15 L502x) that Dell says I shouldn't update to Win 10 from Win 7 Sp 1. Furthermore, I have never seen any of the nagging popups or other notices from Microsoft encouraging an update even though I manually install 2nd Tuesday updates. Looking around the web I find folks who have upgraded this model have a variety of problems as various hardware features no longer work with Win 10. The problem seems to to be that Dell has deigned not to provide critical hardware drivers and I've also seen that there's some glitch with the version of Intel's processors used in these machines. Some posts here suggest that Microsoft should also extend the free update to Win 10 to users of Win XP. The situation with the machines using those OSs may be similar to mine: they're likely using processors that won't work well with Win 10.
I'm not sure what my options will be in four years when Win 7 will not have security updates. This laptop is built like a tank, is my daily driver and shows no sign of hardware failure. I'm wondering when MS will decide some or all today's sold computers cannot be updated to future security patches. Will MS force new hardware purchases on something like a three year or five year cycle? Hardware providers would love it. Not so their customers.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Since they took over for Nokia, their phones have just gotten uglier, too. I really liked the look of the 532, wish they'd bring that back.
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All this push to UPGRADE UPGRADE UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 10 pushed me to install Arch (Sure as hell isn't for beginners, but it was a fun challenge).
It also pushed my girlfriend to ask me to install Mint on her laptop, someone who isn't by any stretch of the imagination a tech nerd.
And several of my friends once I told them their favorite steam games now work perfectly fine, and I would be happy to install whatever distro they wanted if they bought the vodka.
I don't think microsoft understands they do not hold the monopoly on good, usable, noob friendly operating systems anymore.
Ironic when the motto 'mobile first cloud first' only highlights their own mobile failings.
Since I had no idea that Netcraft has confirmed the death of Win Phone, I just bought the new Lumia 650 dual sim, and it's a great value for a basic smartphone. 200 bucks and only lacks a compass and Continuum (if you ever want your phone to be a desktop replacement.. I don't). Feels pretty high-end in the hand too, for the price paid.
Lack of niche apps on Win phone is definitely an issue, though most of the big names are there (Whatsapp, Uber, etc.). If Microsoft can stop thrashing its APIs, they will likely catch up to some degree at least. Both Xamarin and Universal Apps seem like solid strategies on the part of Microsoft. We'll see if they give it a chance I guess.
On the plus side as an unlocked device purchased direct from MS, I'd expect several years of Win 10 updates (at the very least security updates). Unlike my last Sony Android phone, which got exactly "one" update from the carrier before being abandoned. That really soured me on Android.
Yeah. "feel like" doesn't cut it for free software users, but I understand how a user would feel liberated just by switching to any operating system that doesn't come bundled with trial crapware from the vendor and require six 3rd-party security/repair apps each with a redundant, proprietary update mechanism that bugs you every other boot-up. On linux, the "feeling" of owning your own computer can tip too far the other way and feel too much like a responsibility or burden that stops you from getting work done, because you are messing with your OS to try and get it to work properly. Apple has certainly struck a good balance.
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^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H FORCING customers to adopt its paid subscription services.....
The vast majority of CPUs sold in the last three years run Android. Did you make that post from an antique Windows desktop?
How can you "own your computer again" with apple any more than microsoft? You are at the whim of apple for any upgrades, just as you are with microsoft. The main difference is that network admins have abilities to lock you down from doing whatever you want on the machines they have to support, and windows does allow them that control. So your "freedom" on the apple machine is to install anything you want, including unlicensed software for which the company would be liable.
MS bought Cynagyn and has some tools in development to make android apps that do not use Google's proprietary AOSP store API.
No middle aged neckbeards Xenix is not the answer.
Rather, who is the market today and tomorrow? There are more millenials who LOVE their apps and portable devices as much as baby boomers and guess which one is entering the workforce and which one is leaving in droves? MS is in trouble and it's premier brand Windows has an identity crises. People do not care about WM's that mimick 20 year old legacy guis with sooo lame and outdated skuemorphic icons with no mobile support or startup daemon designs. They want ultra portable devices with flat UI's, hamburger menus, lots of small apps that are good for one thing (hmm rings a bell here from the past :-) ), and devices that function for both work and play.
I am typing this on a Surface Pro 3. I use it for wiresharking connections for Avaya and CIsco equipment at work with a USB ethernet connection. I use it to watch Netflix movies when I use my pc or traveling. I use it at night as an ebook reader too with my Nook app and I answer emails with Outlook. Yes I loved Windows 8 on it as it was designed for this. Windows 10 not as much but WIndows 10 INK with the anniversary update is perfect.
My point is universal apps for WIndows 10 will run on MS Android too eventually and it is why android emulators and tools are in Visual Studio 2015. No you did not missread that!
IBM changed when it lost. MS is now too to stay relevant. Yes MS has opened sourced .NET as well but they are embracing change and there are growing pains as WIndows 10 mobile does suck hard at the moment. Windows 8 phone I used and liked but left as I saw the writting on the wall. We will see if it is still around in 3 years?
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Amen! I work as an University teacher in Telecommunications Engineering (mostly computer networks) AND as a trainer (Cloud Computing) for one Chinese telecoms manufacturer, and my main machine is a MacBook air Early 2015.
Why?
* I need all the power of Unix under the hood without fighting with my drivers.
* I want a nice slick GUI on top of that to help my workflow.
* I NEED full Office compatibility without whining at all (pun intended).
Note: While I use LibreOffie for work at the University and find it passable (althoug the Dictionary, Spellchecker and Thesaurus in Spanish can't hold a candle to their counterparts in Office 2016), the Chinese use Office for everything (excels for reporting progress and clossing courses, Powerpoints with the presentations), and in Particular, in PowerPoint, if I use LibreOffice the layout sometimes goes to hell and the animations are lost.
* I want my games selections on Steam to count into the Thousands, not Hundreds.
* I want to run Windows for those few things that do not run on Mac (currently Project, Visio, Arkam city Origins). So, goodbye ARM PCs
* If I ever change my line of work to, say, graphics design, the tools of the trade run on Mac whitout whining (again, pun intended).
To this particular machine, I can Change the Battery, FAN and the SSD down the road to extend the usseful life (not that apple allows, but I am proficient enough to do it).
And while I do not care much about fashion, it helps that the trainees that work on telcos in LatAm see you comming with a Mac (even my aluminum unibody late 2008), instead of a PC.
Those are my reasons to own a Mac, and I suspect I am not the only one in a similar position.
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
I have one and use it on a daily basis, but primarily as a SIMless podcast player using PocketCasts (which I still hope to see one last update for....).
The lack of apps is the big thing, and a couple of the ones you mention may become more problematic in the near future
There are other more niche apps I'd like to have which either aren't available or can't be available due to the security model - things like SMS, call log and decent location tracking.
As for other aspects, for a Microsoft phone running Outlook it has a terrible time with calendar sync - I'll add a calendar entry on an Android tablet, it'll sync to my company Exchange server, show up on my Android phone, then show up on the Windows phone hours later after the event and only when I actually open the calendar app to see why I didn't have a notification on there. While the keyboard is better than it appears at first, it still has some gaping holes (such as not showing the "secondary" characters available by swiping on the keys).
I don't feel bad about having purchased the phone and might do it again under the same circumstances - it was $80 and I got a free 1-year subscription to Office365 with it, and my previous phone was showing signs of dying - but with the current status of Windows Phone and the application environment I can't imagine the scenario in which I'd actually buy one to use as a daily driver.
fencepost
just a little off
> MS bought Cynagyn
No, they didn't. They did give some money to them though.
> and has some tools in development to make android apps that do not use Google's proprietary AOSP store API.
Of course they did. Microsoft was selling an Android phone, they needed development tools to make apps that would talk to Microsoft services.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/mobile/support/product/nokia-x/
http://download-support.webapps.microsoft.com/ncss/PUBLIC/en_IN/webpdf/100000364121/UG_en_GB.pdf
"Apple's core customer base is interested in fashion accessories and status symbols". Not really, I work in science and we're filthy with Macs and iPhone and iPads, this is not status conscious community. They use the devices because they need to get work done. I recall one fellow finally making the switch from Winders to Mac, his comment to me was, "I feel like I own my computer again". I'm not entirely sure what MS is doing to their clientele, but that sentiment seems rife among scientists.
I felt that way when I switched to Linux.
Leslie Satenstein Montreal Quebec Canada
the phone is fine but next phone will be a cheap android for sure, the win phone is fine for me since i use phones more like a grandma would, but if i never ever have to see the zune aplication again (the windows computer program to sync the phone and copy music to the phone and stuff) it will be great, whoever designed the computer part of the zune thingy, the interface of the thing, is seriously retarded, like in an odd number of chromosomes retarded. Ive never seen something so shitty in my life, every time i use which is not often, it i have to figure out how it fucking works again, sometimes it takes 1 minute to figure out, some times it takes 10, its the most non intuitive program ive seen in my entire life
they design pretty shitty stuff in microshit, i mean the os works, and im sure the workings of it are pretty awesome, im sure the engineers know their stuff inside out, but the people that design their interfaces, and the policy makers, the one that decide your fucking devide drivers will be updated no matter what (i understand them wanting their own shit updated, but i dont understand why in the name of FUCK they have to mess my fucking audio or video drivers that are working flawlessly at the moment) are seriously the people that are fucking their company
the DESIGNATED indian guy and his shitting ways are a metaphor for a turd floating on a sad river of poo, he should go away with his faggoty ways, even if you give something away, if its a TURD, people wont want it, the whole world is not a designated shitting street mr nadella, we are not in india anymore!
Get the poo to the loo, and the windows 10 to the crapper
They stared with forcibly not allowing Windows 7 and 8.1 to run on Skylake hardware after 18 months...
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
They're also removing USB 2.0 support, to make sure your much-older computers are properly neutered. Guess you're going to be using that Skylake-esque hardware after all...
http://wccftech.com/intel-skyl...
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Sorry, I'll go back to trimming my beard.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
If by "sold" you include "dispose of at approximately 1/10th of the cost of building the damned things."
The wife was given one by her daughter a few months ago. Camera is OK. WiFi works (an improvement on the previous phone). It has ... a mapping app which we found could give directions after a few weeks. Oh, and Skype (so the wife can talk to her mother abroad).
What else would you want from a phone? Particularly if you've got a proper SatNav in the car as well.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
I loathe Microsoft's current software. Yet, they truly could make it at least palatable if they made just a few simple changes:
- Stop the spyware. Just stop.
- Reduce the bugginess. It's unbelievable how bad it's gotten.
- Drop MOOXML. ODF is superior, and is open, unlike MOOXML.
- Add configurativity. This is the main thing that drives me to other OSs and software. I like your idea of restoring an XP gui (sort of like gnome or kde or mate or cinammon etc - pick what you like). But having Microsoft's poor choices forced on the end user is what drives me nuts. Going back to Clippy - really? Libraries - wtf are "libraries"? I will never use them. The Ribbon - complete trash. Pick Up Where You Left Off in This Document - umm, NEVER. It just slows me down, slows scrolling. This Isn't The Most Recent Email in This Thread - buggy as hell. I've clicked on Take Me to the Most Recent Message and had it take me backwards, to an email that came PRIOR to the one I'm looking at.
Got cut off and posted too soon . . .
My point was, Microsoft, despite it all, I don't hate YOU. But make your software more open, less buggy, and especially more configurable, and you would get a lot more acceptance.
The guys and gals who come up with all the Clippy-like functionality and decide to force it on end users, fire every last one of them. You don't even have to go open source - just allow us our personalizations. If I hate the Ribbon (and, I do), then let me easily turn it off. Give us options. That's all some of us are asking for.
Windows xp and Office 2013 were your high water marks. Literally everything you have published since then has sucked and been a step backward.
Only once I was tricked into using the Windows Store, half asleep maybe, and uninstalled that cr@p asap
If I sold 2.3 million of phones I'd be a millionaire and very happy. ;)
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
What MS really needs to do to keep in the mobile market and save Nokia is to completely move to a MS branded flavor of Android. They still need to meet the requirements for Google services, which I know would be horrible for them to have to release a device that would require a google logon for all it's features. They have, however, lost the mobile OS race. If they would just give up on their mobile OS and delicate those resources to a platform(android) they could actually start working on REAL desktop and mobile OS integration. I got a Lumia at the same time I got my surface pro. There was absolutely no integration benefit. The surface pro was awesome. The Lumia 1020, with my favorite camera ever, only stayed with me 6 months. The windows mobile interface was miserable. I can't believe they're throwing away so much time on making what is their only decision at this point.
Eh, I use both OS X (work laptop) and Ubuntu Gnome. And both of them "just work" (Linux on a home-built desktop and on my Lenovo Thinkpad). Apple has the advantage in some areas, Gnome/Ubuntu has the advantage in some other areas. Both operating systems make me feel like I have control and choice, unlike Windows 10 which mostly gets in my way.
One example of OS X vs Gnome is that I'm spoiled in Gnome by being able to put my mouse into the upper left corner and start typing if I don't see what I want already open in the window previews. In OS X, that's two separate things. Yes, I can have the upper left as a hot-corner to open up the window/desktop preview view (which is very nice), but I can't start typing a program name. You have to use Cmd+Space or something in OS X in order to do that.
OTOH, Apple handles high-DPI displays a little bit better the Gnome3 (while Windows 10 under Parallels constantly gets confused and lost).
I do have a Win7 VM on the home Linux PC, but it stays turned off 95% of the time and only gets used once every 2-3 months when I have a project that requires Microsoft Access.
What I really want, and have wanted for a long time, is an Atom based Windows 10 phone. That is, a real x86 intel phone so that Continuum exposes a real Windows PC that can run real Win32 software. Then you don't even need any special magic to run Android apps, because you can actually just run Android in Hyper-V or VirtualBox like a sane person.
"That which does not kill us makes us stranger." -Trevor Goodchild