Microsoft to OEM: Its not us, its you! lol

So, I guess we will see MS making their own computers soon as well. After the shift to making their own phones, tablets, and computers MS will rename themselves, Pear.

When I picture Ballmer and Gates, I see this brash a hole getting what he wants and Gates doesn't have the balls to stand up to him. Sinofsky shouldn't have been fired, Ballmer should be. What good thing has he done since taking over?

Slumping economy? Yet every single apple product blows the doors off the store? The fact is that MS has a heavy reliance on corporate users. Windows 8 is not a business friendly OS... much like everything between XP and 7. Our company (a large bank) used XP until early this year when we started upgrading to 7. I asked our tech guys about 8 and they said that most of our software providers don't plan to support it or create software for it.

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Originally Posted by whoda 

Microsoft to OEM: Its not us, its you! lol
So, I guess we will see MS making their own computers soon as well. After the shift to making their own phones, tablets, and computers MS will rename themselves, Pear.
When I picture Ballmer and Gates, I see this brash a hole getting what he wants and Gates doesn't have the balls to stand up to him. Sinofsky shouldn't have been fired, Ballmer should be. What good thing has he done since taking over?

But what will happen to HP, Dell, etc?

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Originally Posted by whoda 

...Sinofsky shouldn't have been fired, Ballmer should be. What good thing has he done since taking over?

Balmer seems to be one of the world's richest incompetent idiots!

It's a BIG transition for PC owners. I remember when Apple went to OS X from OS 9 in the early 2000s.

A LOT of people HATED OS X - because it meant buying ALL new software and OS X was REALLY buggy. I know - I was at HP using a Mac G3 Tower doing design work for HP.

And then came the jump of OS X from G3/G4/G5 Macs to Intel Macs.

So can't ring the death knell for Windows 8 quite yet.
From the looks of it, all the pre-black Friday sales of Win8 PCs are pretty much sold out - I'm watching the Best Buy ones right now.

This one will be a slow-upswing.

No~. An OS with a worse usability change than Vista and uglier, more complicated UX than Bob isn't doing well? 

Stop. The. Presses.

Originally Posted by LuxoM3 
A LOT of people HATED OS X - because it meant buying ALL new software...

 

Subtle, bu~t I still caught it.

I went right out and bought a couple copies of Win 7 OEM just to have around for any new office PCs we might need in the future. I certainly don't want to be stuck having to deal with Win 8 from the looks of it.

I haven't actually gone down to the Microsoft Store to try it, but I don't think people are going to respond very well to such a radical change even if it is a slight improvement. Most Windows users are ok with the way Windows was. They have learned to get around the interface just fine.  

Most Windows people don't usually upgrade their machines anyway so Windows 8 sales are going to be almost exclusively new PCs and we've been hearing for a year or more that PC sales are down.

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Originally Posted by AppleInsider 

...Sinofsky's departure has been compared to the recent purported firing of Scott Forstall from Apple. Forstall was in charge of Apple's flagship iOS operating system found on the iPhone and iPad, but also oversaw the transition to iOS 6 and Apple's new Maps application, which was regarded as a disappointment.

Wouldn't it be nice to read a piece that didn't contain a reference to iOS 6 maps?

Windows 8 RT or whatever it is called makes no sense. Backwards compatibility to legacy apps was the saving grace of Windows 8, and that doesn't have it.