- #DESKTOP DESTROYER ANDROID UPGRADE#
- #DESKTOP DESTROYER ANDROID WINDOWS 8#
- #DESKTOP DESTROYER ANDROID WINDOWS 7#
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Upgrade to Vista - too silly to contemplate.This doesn't mean that XP will disappear in a puff of smoke, but it does mean that security updates will stop and this is important for many business users. Next year Microsoft will stop supporting XP.
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Now consider the plight of Windows XP users.
#DESKTOP DESTROYER ANDROID WINDOWS 8#
I am not alone in giving Windows 8 a try and then finally upgrading to Windows 7. The Surface has done little for Windows and Windows programmers except to provide a rationale for breaking the desktop. The Surface may be selling well according to Microsoft's brave face, but compared to other alternatives to the desktop machine it might as well not exist. The sad part is that Windows 8 hasn't exactly had much impact in the tablet world either. And yes this is a subjective observation and you can disagree with me, but the sales figures for Windows 8 don't show it to be a run away success. If anything I can only say that it just gets in the way and yes I have found ways of doing the old things in the new way but they are nearly always less efficient or are clunky in some other way. Perhaps in this case the we should change this to if it aint broke don't break it.Īs a desktop user I can state that Windows 8 has produced nothing by way of a change to the user interface that I needed or asked for. My response is to remind everyone of the old motto - if it aint broke don't fix it. Now at this point you might be on the other side of the fence and saying that WinRT is the best thing to happen and the Start Screen is wonderful and the people who are complaining are just wimps because they don't want to learn anything new. WinRT and the Start Screen were made mandatory and the desktop OS was crippled for no good reason. It might even have been true if the transition had been made optional or at least minimizable. Is this a Trojan horse or some other strategy?įor a small transition this might have worked. The idea seems to have been that if it is called Windows people will continue to buy it and the transition from the old to the new will happen without anyone really noticing. Microsoft didn't really believe that a new operating system could have any impact in the current market so it decided that the only way to get the new OS into users hands was to insert it into the old Windows. Out with the old and in with the new Windows for touch.
NET languages have been dragged along for the ride and even JavaScript has been give a place at the new table. A fresh start with a return to the true religion of native code, COM and C++. WinRT isn't really anything much to do with Windows and as such its creation marks a sort of year zero for Windows. Unfortunately the conclusion was that to do this the guts had to be ripped out and the whole thing started over again. To take Windows and create a compatible touch-based operating system is a very obvious thing to do. Instead it start thinking about the fiasco that would be Windows 8.
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With Windows 7 Microsoft could put behind it the fiasco of Windows Vista and look forward to period of stable prosperity. Not perfect but good enough for a lot of jobs. Its success tended to sideline C++ and the systems side of things, but for productive applications development this was probably the right way to go. NET system was an improvement on Java and in conjunction with Visual Studio it was a very productive environment.
It also developed its own programming infrastructure that was enviable. From a crude and clunky GUI interface with cooperative multitasking, it dragged itself up from the primordial slime to become an graphically sophisticated pre-emptive multitasking operating system that had a lot in its favor. Windows 8 was a brave attempt at reimagining Windows but it failed to take into account that a large part of Windows didn't actually need reimagining.Īfter a long development process, the desktop version of Windows had got a long way towards where it needed to be. Microsoft seems to be of the opinion that Windows 8 is fundamentally sounds and just needs some improvements and then the ignorant users will suddenly wake up and smell the WinRT. If anything what we are looking at is a polishing. It seems unlikely that the bluecoats are going to sweep down the hill and save the day - simply because there is no sign that Microsoft is about to back peddle on the basic concept of Windows 8. It is, at last, time to admit that Windows 8 isn't setting the world on fire and any hopes that remain are pinned on Microsoft creating a really great decimal point upgrade in the form of Windows Blue or Windows 8.1.Īt the present time this seems unlikely. The miscalculation of Windows 8 isn't just a train wreck, it is in danger of bringing the whole railroad down. Windows 8 is a disaster and while Microsoft has had disasters before this one is different because the times are different.