Microsoft wasted billions challenging Google

They should have spent that money on making Windows 8 less of a disaster!
 
And there I was thinking this was about money spent touch-screening Windows7 to rebrand it as Windows8, but no it's about a marketing company from 2007.
 
They're buying assets to chase markets which have already been thoroughly captured by incumbents. Then they don't really add anything to differentiate themselves. The days when ie could win because it was locked to the os are long over. And they wasted huge amounts of time in failing to respond to the mobile computing threat.
 
Have you used it on a normal PC for any extended period of time?

It actually works, and works VERY well.
 
ngadao08 said:
Things that make me stay away from Windows 8 is that Metro Interface, its nice for a tablet PC, but not for a PC or laptop in my opinion.
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I also run Windows 8 RP on two tower PCs with large dual monitors. I log-in by clicking hotspots on a picture, my calendar and contacts sync with the cloud and phone, and I spend my day in legacy apps in the Desktop spanned over two large LCD displays. Marvellous. Everything Windows 7 can do, and more, with better dual-monitor support.

For desktop users, Metro simply replaces the old Start Menu invoked by the Start orb. With Windows 7, do you spend your time in the Start Menu? Not? Neither do you in Windows 8.
 
B.O.F.H. said:
Have you used it on a normal PC for any extended period of time?

It actually works, and works VERY well.
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+1 I actually thought Metro was going to be a commercial flop, but after I installed the consumer preview all of those thoughts vanished.
 
Garyvdh said:
It's schizophrenic... it doesn't know what it wants to be.
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Yea but you are saying windows 8 has failed when the reality is it will flourish in a big way. The tablet market is massive, all they need to is success there. I don't like it but then i have not spent that much time on it. When it is released and has drivers i will make the switch for a minimum of two months before i say it's kuk.

It could be the best release they have had and it will also allow them to enter markets they currently have no foot hold in. I cannot see how it could fail in all honesty.
 
killadoob said:
Yea but you are saying windows 8 has failed when the reality is it will flourish in a big way. The tablet market is massive, all they need to is success there. I don't like it but then i have not spent that much time on it. When it is released and has drivers i will make the switch for a minimum of two months before i say it's kuk.

It could be the best release they have had and it will also allow them to enter markets they currently have no foot hold in. I cannot see how it could fail in all honesty.
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Depends what counts as failure. It could be an overnight sensation capturing the imaginations of all humankind, or it could flop flatasapancake, or something in between. Most likely the last of those. Personally I think it will be at the mediocre end of dismal, sales wise, especially if you exclude the forced OEM-type machine loading. So far it is "kuk", in fact sets a new low on the kuk-o-meter.

Having just upgraded one of my primary PCs I am just glad that the new hardware still runs XP so I can actually be vaguely productive.
 
Arthur said:
For desktop users, Metro simply replaces the old Start Menu invoked by the Start orb. With Windows 7, do you spend your time in the Start Menu? Not? Neither do you in Windows 8.
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If car manufacturers argued like this cars would be without reverse gear or a spare wheel. The fact that I do not use it a lot does not mean its not needed. I have overcome this with a 3rd party add-on.

killadoob said:
Yea but you are saying windows 8 has failed when the reality is it will flourish in a big way. The tablet market is massive, all they need to is success there. I don't like it but then i have not spent that much time on it. When it is released and has drivers i will make the switch for a minimum of two months before i say it's kuk.

It could be the best release they have had and it will also allow them to enter markets they currently have no foot hold in. I cannot see how it could fail in all honesty.
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I just have small issues with the Windows 8 Tablets, but for most its probably nothing.
  • The Arm version is just as good as an iPad as it will not run my old windows applications, so I would need new applications anyway. Yes I will be able to use the same new applications on my desktop but chances of that happening is slim as I would spend most of my time in desktop mode instead of metro. Lets not even get to the no side loading and single market aspects.
  • The x86 version is just as good as the Windows Tablets of today, sure it has fast resume but you still going to end up turning the tablet off/hibernate and it will not have the same 10-16 hours continuous play time let alone the 4 days stand-by.
 
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