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Microsoft Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Out Following Windows 8 and Surface Launches
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Really? Thank you for this information - best get writing to Ive and letting him know!
No, the impressive upgrade figures that they released last week.
Totally irrelevant.
Microsoft only released the figures for online Windows 8 Upgrades which happened in a specific way (i.e. through the Microsoft Store).
Based on those alone it outsold Windows 7 in the equivalent period.
That does not count things like Volume Licensing or hardware sales.
Sales? They are simply forcing people to buy a PC with W8 preinstalled. HP doesn't even support W7 anymore, this is force feeding people W8
I agree. I love Windows 8 now. Once I got used to the new interface, I can get to apps just as fast if not faster than Windows 7. I find using the start screen to be more fun than the start menu. I like it and think Microsoft did a great job on the OS.
Obviously there's going to be mixed reviews just like anything, but for me, it works great.
I use it just fine. To bad there are many people like you who can't figure it out..
Not true, the notebooks in particular are spectacular, the addition of the touch interface significantly enhances productivity. We were going to refresh a number of desktops (new imacs) and notebooks (new mackbook airs) this year and we have decided to switch back entirely to Windows 8 machines (with touch interfaces). The only Apple product that we will buy is one Mac Mini to run legacy software.
Be careful of sweeping statements that you make ("Windows 8 is this year's Vista"). At least in a business environment Win 8 offers a more productive work environment than does OSX.
Our ipads will be sold and as our phones come up for renewal we will start switching phones, we are not going to use an inconsistent user interface...
The learning curve is about 2 hours to be productive and 2 days to be proficient.
Face it Apple got caught with their pants down
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Read the post above yours. Most of the reported sales have been through upgrades.
And forcing people to upgrade? Well...when the MS guy comes to your house and holds the gun to your head, you BUY THEIR DAMN COMPUTER! Just makes sense, you know. Ain't worth risking your life over.
...and then you go to the HP website, and look for Windows 7 PCs. They're still selling 14 laptop models with 7 on them.
It's embarrassing. It's even worse when supposed intelligent people can't use basic functions in Windows 8 properly, judging by people's complaints. Some people here are more incompetent with a Windows PC than my 86 year old Gran...
My point is that companies seldom appoint a CEO who doesn't know enough to spell the company name correctly. I thought that we had already established that.
And if you can find a single example of Apple ever using a comma and a small "i" in any legal context, I'll say you are correct. But until then,
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Stock prices don't always tell the whole story.
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I agree Windows 8 is full of features and once you forget how to use Win7, version 8 is full of features that will appeal.
At first I totally disliked it, but after a few days it gets better and better.
It runs much faster than its older siblings.
Obviously you have reading comprehension fail or you just fail to read my other post(s). I have used it, been using it for almost a year... Maybe it's because I support corporate environments which most here don't understand - for them windows 8 is unusable.
Bet you are wrong, see above.
I think you're looking at things through rose colored glasses.
Office uses an open and standardized XML format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
There are hundreds of applications which support OOXML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_supports_Office_Open_XML
Granted I'm sure support in most software is only partial, but Office documents are more open than any file format provided by Apple iWorks. Come to think of it, when was the last time Apple openly documented a file format? It's quite rare for Apple to do so.
Microsoft does not force you to use Microsoft Office, you're free to use OpenOffice if you choose so, but as we've seen over the years, Office trumps the competition significantly. MS Office is simply the best available office suite.
Apple on the other hand locks users to Apple hardware. Why isn't OSX installable on a regular Windows PC without hacking it? Why does Apple require a Lighting cable to connect to the new iPhone? Why is iTunes even required to manage the iPhone?
Apple makes good hardware and software, but for it to work well, you really have to stick to the Apple eco-system - the ultimate case of vendor lock-in.
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I'm a hardcore gamer so I prefer when every app has ten icons, but nine of them are deadly traps.
This post is about Steve Sinofsky. Apologies to those who'd prefer to discuss the Windows 8 UI.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-microsoft-windows-shakeup-20121114,0,3224061.story
The real story, just so we know.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-microsoft-windows-shakeup-20121114,0,3224061.story
The real story, just so we know.
How did you come to this conclusion? Sources?
(oh never mind, I didn't understand that you were just basing your assumption on some Apple-dedicated forums posts)
Why don't you pull up Apple's 10-year stock chart so we can make a relevant comparison with Microsoft's?
Oh really?
And you have documented proof that Windows 8 Enterprise is "unusable" for corporations.
Please share your vast knowledge as a help desk tech with us so that those of us who make the real decisions about what we will be using aren't wasting out time.
I must inform our CIO that we needn't waste our time developing in house applications for Windows 8 since it's "unusable".
All of our UAT results were false. All of our employees lied about their experience.
Seriously... stop before you make a bigger *** out of yourself.
Compleet and utter BS . Sorry I dont believe 1 bit of what you write.
For cooporations windows 8 have quite some improvements over the already very good windows 7 .
But you no doubt are going to whine about the start menu, as if thats all people use.
Windows 8 is a souped up Windows 7 with an optional interface for start functionality. Once people get used to the interface they won't look back. I hated it for the first 2 hours of use, after that I just keep getting these very satisfactory hits of features and integration I absolutely love.
To judge it I think you need to look back in 6 months time and see what people think, it's way too early to establish a "fail" as you put it.
If the criteria for a "fail" is early adopters having issues, then surely by the same token iOS 6 has failed? So come on be realistic any new product needs time to bed in and for consumers to digest.
I just inserted my USB stick
You wouldn't believe the spec of some of the machines I have to repair ;-)
He's counting Halo 4 as an incredible product and/or a foundation for something?
Well, they'll probably sell more copies of Halo than Windows 8...
...(At least fir the first quarter)
OMG, I swear you just stated everything that I've been thinking since Win8 preview came out...mostly, GET RID OF THE REG!!!