My standards are quite high, thanks. Windows 10 is quite usable, especially with the last 2 major updates, with a touch screen. I give them a ton of credit for letting users have just one OS, instead of having to straddle everything between multiple OS'. Anyhoo I see you are another "...hur dur Windoze suxors..." dude who just likes to rant and rave about how bad Windows is.
You give them tone of credit for what? Ruining their desktop OS because they are trying to shoehorn in a touch interface on a OS that was designed for Mice input decades ago?
I see you are another "hur hur Windows 10 is see best, I love that I can have 1 OS that gives me a ****** touch experience and a ruined desktop experience. Yay".
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Windows 7 may be great or not, but it was widely considered to be much superior to Windows Vista.
I do not see how Windows 10 sucks. I think Windows 10 is fine, if not great. It has problems, of course, but so does every operating system, including macOS or Linux. I can perfectly use Windows 10 as my main OS.
Office may be just office, but it is still the major and most fully-featured office suite in the world. Microsoft keeps improving it, and nobody else comes near to offering software that is so good. Google Drive, Apple iWork, LibreOffice are all office suites that fall short, for one reason or the other. They may advertise themselves as cheaper, simpler, more convenient, more open or less bloated than Microsoft Office, but the truth is that none of them is the real thing. Nobody offers as many features as Office, although they sometimes try to advertise this lack of features as a competitive advantage. Clever move, but Office is still the most popular one by far.
Surface is not a major product, but it has been successful and innovative. Surface RT was a disaster, and lost a lot of money. But the newer lines are successful. Not cash cows, but at least matching or beating expectations.
XBOX One sold less units than PS4, but has rebounded in the last year and sales have increased. It is mostly a failure, but Microsoft is still a player in this area.
1) Windows 10 does suck compared to Windows 7, its not even close. I guess nobody mentions Windows 8 because that OS was so bad that Microsoft decided to skip 1 version numbering and go straight to 10. Did I mentioned ads. Who doesn't love ads in a OS they pay for. Nothing like going to Explorer and seeing a OneDrive ad.
2) Thats what I mean about Office. Its great and the best office suit but it still just Office, nothing to brag about. Has been around for decades.
3) Explain to me how the Surface is successful? By what Metric? Sales? User experience?
The only thing that I consider a success is that the surface raised the bar for OEMs to step up their game, finally. Is that good or does that tell you that the OEMs suck and are lazy?.
4) So is it a failure or is Microsoft a player in the field? My response was purely to a person saying that xBox was one of the things Microsoft got right.
Well nope they did not get it right or it would have won the console race. Im sure the initial policies that Microsoft tried to introduce did not help. If those policies did not show you that Microsoft is clueless that I do not know what is. They got such a bad response that they were forced to ditch all those policies (always online, 2nd hand sales etc). It was embarrassing
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I have around 75,000 PC's to look after and Windows 10 does everything better than Windows 7. I can't think of a single thing that has me pining for Windows 7, be that with the OS itself or the administrative management tools associated with it. You can do so much more with Windows 10.
Surface has been a huge success as it's inspired every vendor to make better PC's. Surface acts as a 'benchmark' of design. Surface products are never meant to compete with the sales of say Lenovo, Dell or HP. It's still a billion dollar business and the only reason sales have slowed the last 6 months is because Microsoft haven't refreshed their products for 12-18 months - the same issues Apple had with the Mac.
I suggest you do a little more research to improve your knowledge instead of posting throwaway comments that quite frankly mean nothing.
Do what research?
I only need to use Windows 10 for 10 minutes to realise it sucks. The App Store sucks, the UI sucks, Metro or whatever they call it now sucks. Did I mentioned ads? Who doesn't love ads in a OS thats codes 100$+.
Maybe you should do some more research because you might be the only one that ever told me that Windows 10 is better than 7. Even die hard Microsoft fans tell you that Windows 10 sucks and 7 was the pinnacle OS that came from Redmond.
What are you gonna tell me next? That you liked Windows 8?
