No desktop for Windows 9

[EphesiaNZ]

Can it be? Desktop users get left out for the mobile future?

Windows Blue/9: No Desktop? No Way! - - BYTE News - BYTE

I guess if it's true then Microsoft will be losing more users to alternate players in the market.

And my prediction is they will kill the desktop now or in the next couple of years and then after 5-10 years will hail the next generation of doing things easier and more productively and it shall be know as the desktop...

 

[Sketcher]

At least go with a good CLI if you're going to get rid of the desktop.

 

[brinny]

what's a CLI?

 

[brinny]

Can it be? Desktop users get left out for the mobile future?

Windows Blue/9: No Desktop? No Way! - - BYTE News - BYTE

I guess if it's true then Microsoft will be losing more users to alternate players in the market.

And my prediction is they will kill the desktop now or in the next couple of years and then after 5-10 years will hail the next generation of doing things easier and more productively and it shall be know as the desktop...

 

[EphesiaNZ]

what's a CLI?

Command LIne Interface

That is, all text and no pretty desktop with icons and usually no mouse. My Blog (shameless plug yet again) focuses on the CLI and what you can do with it.

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

I don't buy into information like this until something is actually said by MS. There was a lot of stuff flying around about 8 as well that proved untrue because the leaked versions were very early tests.

MS can't really get away from a desktop at this point in time because "Metro" doesn't run x86 programs. It will only run apps specifically designed for it.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

I don't buy into information like this until something is actually said by MS. There was a lot of stuff flying around about 8 as well that proved untrue because the leaked versions were very early tests.

Windows 8 is a crossover product for a full screen touch interface - infact its default nature is to use the TIFKAM with a touch sensitive screen.

MS can't really get away from a desktop at this point in time because "Metro" doesn't run x86 programs. It will only run apps specifically designed for it.

Windows 8 is a proven disaster no matter how you try to wriggle out of it and they will have to pull a big rabbit out of that red hat - sorry, black hat for the next incarnation.

The desktop market is dying fast, MS can really do what they like. Now, whether we buy into it or not is another matter. If we don't then MS will truly become a minority player as they are now in the mobile space currently with 8% of the market share.

 

[C-Man]

My biggest fear is that they'll use their clout to lean on the market and shove this crud down everybody's throat whether they want it or not. 90% of computer users out there would spinelessly accept it.

 

[MrJim]

I've had Windows 7 on this laptop for a year and am very impressed, no crashes and everything works great...if MS is really focused on the "professional/business/productivity" market they should continue along this line and develop the mobile/cutesy stuff on the side, kind of like while macs & iPhone/iPods interface well they are different critters.

I just read in PCWorld that Win8 is even less popular than Vista was..

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

Windows 8 is a crossover product for a full screen touch interface - infact its default nature is to use the TIFKAM with a touch sensitive screen.

Which really has nothing to do with anything I just said. :\

Windows 8 is a proven disaster no matter how you try to wriggle out of it and they will have to pull a big rabbit out of that red hat - sorry, black hat for the next incarnation.

That's a load of rubbish and sounds like someone who has never even used 8 for more than 5 minutes. Anyone with any tech knowledge can tell you that 8 has been a fantastic OS. Once you get use to the new interface (which I find to be a lot more efficient than the old start menu), it works flawlessly and the under the hood improvements make it well worth getting.

The desktop market is dying fast, MS can really do what they like. Now, whether we buy into it or not is another matter. If we don't then MS will truly become a minority player as they are now in the mobile space currently with 8% of the market share.

Oh yah, 60 million end user (not including enterprise) licenses sold as of January... they are totally becoming a minority and dying market. You sound like just another jaded Linux user. Funny thing that; I used Slackware and Debian back in the 90s. I installed 2 different versions of Linux last year and ended up uninstalling them because I kept having to go back into Windows to do anything I needed to do. You just keep telling yourself that Windows is a dying OS.

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

I've had Windows 7 on this laptop for a year and am very impressed, no crashes and everything works great...if MS is really focused on the "professional/business/productivity" market they should continue along this line and develop the mobile/cutesy stuff on the side, kind of like while macs & iPhone/iPods interface well they are different critters.

I've been impressed as well. I've not had any crashes on either 7 nor 8 while both have been substantial updates where things like system resource management are concerned.

I just read in PCWorld that Win8 is even less popular than Vista was..

I keep hearing this as well and yet everyone I've talked to who actually uses 8 loves it once they got use to using the mobile platform and lacking a start menu. I personally believe that these review magazines simply have a distaste for the mobile menu and so they trash it at any point they can or they are taking information from people who haven't spent much time actually using it. As I said in my previous post, after a few weeks of navigating around in it, I found it much more efficient than using the old Start and it's been very good about adding needed icons for programs that have multiple executables. I have no issue using a mouse with it because the scroll wheel controls the side to side motion which makes navigating it simple and honestly, I like the way I can group things together a lot easier than I could on Start. All my studio icons are in one place, games in another, design apps have their column, office, other apps I don't use as much... etc. It just took a few weeks to really get the hang of it.