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Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the roadmap-2017 dept.

Microsoft officials have some fairly specific ideas about what they want their Windows-device-making partners to build in calendar 2017. From a report: Microsoft wants its OEMs and ODMs to make more Windows 10 detachables, convertibles, and ultraslims. They also are advising their partners to make devices and peripherals that highlight the "hero experiences" of Windows 10 involving Cortana, Windows Hello authentication, and Windows Ink. And another wish-list topper: Microsoft is looking for more Windows 10 PCs that can power mixed-reality peripherals and that are ready for gamers and "media fanatics."

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  1. Re:Is Microsoft really the one to give orders? by QuietLagoon · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...What makes you say this? Have you looked at MS's financials lately? They're doing great. ...

    Microsoft's enterprise cloud business is doing great. Microsoft's Windows' business is doing far less great.

  2. Re:Can't we just get PCs with Windows 7? by spire3661 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pro allows you to defer UPGRADES, not updates. The added control you paid for is being steadily chipped away. Pro is essentially home with a group policy editor at this point. Pro is no longer a 'business class' OS, thats reserved for Enterprise with its lovely annual licensing agreements.

    --
    Good-bye
  3. Re:Can't we just get PCs with Windows 7? by iampiti · · Score: 5, Informative

    To get something like Win 7 you'd also have to remove the following things:
    - Ads for Office and Edge built into the OS.
    - The infamous telemetry that can't be completely turned off.
    - The annoying push to use MS' services (Ms account for login, Cortana, Bing, the Store...)
    - The "bug" that resets your default applications to Ms' ones every major update.
    - The inability to reject updates.
    - The built-for-touch apps that are the defaults (and, in some cases like the Settings app, the only option) even on desktops without touchscreens.