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What does Microsoft have running on Mars? HoloLens just lets people pretend to be on Mars.
Yes, the way MacRumors wrote it can be taken either way. The way Microsoft put it can't be, as seen in their blog post where they mention supporting devices for the lifetime of the device for no charge.
Yea, the disaster that is installed on 20 times more systems than any Mac os.
If you are alluding to Xerox, Apple was around for seven years before the Macintosh debuted, so "founded on a stolen idea" is -- at best -- inaccurate.
Yes it is. As I said elsewhere in this thread, props to Satya Nadella for making such a bold move.
I believe that they want to simplify their patching process by having fewer OSes that they have to support. It is better for them and for everyone else.
Yeah, it potentially makes their work easier provided that everyone upgrade, otherwise they are still stuck to commitments to older versions.
They've been pretty good at it thus far.
I don't think that it's about them having to do less work since they'll have to do it regardless of the number of people that use the older versions.
I prefer their approach to Apple's, I can tell you that much.
Your post does come across as anti MS, so lacks credibility. others could write the same anti Apple sruff as well, with bugs, Flat UI, wifi, dumbing down etc
But back to the point, I feel W10 is huge. Partially as its recovering from 8, so preception counts for a lot. It fixes 8, it follows Apple's lead of integration. Cheeky how MS calls it Continuum.... The one OS to cover desktop, tablets and phones is interesting, lets see how that goes. Clearly, the phone OS is NOT the same as the desktop, its the same UI in a dekstop or tablet or phone mode. Whereas Apple has a full OS for desktop and a simple, limited, consumption based OS for the phone and tablet. The Hololens and Surfac screen are innovative, and that adds brownie points to MS, as these are Apple centric innovations.
IMO MS has stepped up from being, well, just MS, to beinga today, modern, innovative OS, unified to the desktop/tablet/phone. In many ways its copied Apple business model, so it will want the app store to push on as thats a weak link. A strong link is computer/tablet/phone/game console all meld together.
Will I get it? No, I moved to OSX a year ago, and I have my ecosystem sorted. But I see MS have made a big stride here, Id see a hit go Google as it comes down to the big two not the big three IMO
The update to 10 will be free of charge in the first year after release. It's not a subscription scheme, just a bonus to early adopters.
And there was nothing wrong with 8 that a minute with Google, and the 8.1 update didn't fix.
From what I've read, consumer OS sales are a drop in the bucket compared to their business licence sales of Windows and Office.
I don't think it will be free for OEMs who make up the majority of MS licenses anyway.
Microsoft has clarified its stance on Windows 10. The free offer for Windows 10 is a perpetual license, not a subscription model. The offer for the free upgrade expires after a year following release, not the upgrade license.
Microsoft is a beast in the corporate world. Windows server licenses are expensive, they own multiple enterprise class software products, and last but not least office, still the industry standard
Add to that their very successful cloud services such as dynamics, and they are set
Apple could use a new browser unless they do something to improve Safari, especially after this latest Jony Ive destruction of it.
Safari is terrible now-the layout stinks with everything on top in one line, small bar and having to delete everything even if I just want to only delete history.
Safari keeps hanging on sites and either crashes once a day or gives me the beach ball.
Apple will rue the day they gave Ive so much power. He is removing as much function from the machines to make them ever slimmer and he's a total incompetent when it comes to software which he obviously knows nothing about.
Grow a pair, Cook, and reign Ive in
Safari is terrible now-the layout stinks with everything on top in one line, small bar and having to delete everything even if I just want to only delete history.
Safari keeps hanging on sites and either crashes once a day or gives me the beach ball.
Apple will rue the day they gave Ive so much power. He is removing as much function from the machines to make them ever slimmer and he's a total incompetent when it comes to software which he obviously knows nothing about.
Grow a pair, Cook, and reign Ive in
Just to get you back to reality here....you ARE on an Apple-enthusiast board and just the stuff you wrote about Apple makes you lose a ton of credibility as well.
Nothing wrong with people discussing both sides of tech in a civil manner but this forum craps on Apple a lot and very often so if someone here wants to crap on Microsoft they shouldn't have to be scolded about it.
I agree, and that small piec of the puzzle will be buying apps, games, etc for the duration if they stay and get married to Windows. Apple's busines smodel and it works
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A) I am an Apple user.
B) This may be an Apple centric forum but we all know there are non Apple trollers here
C) There are also Apple lovers who like what MS is or is doing. Read the Apple Quality threads
D) There are also Apple users here who are agnostic
I am happy to praise Apple, I am happy to criticise Apple , as many Apple dedicated users are doing of late due to the steady failings. Same for me for MS. I have credibility as I am not married or in love with one or the other, or be a dedicated hater of one or the other. Thats where the credibility is lacking. That is general comment not raised at you in particular
Because Windows 7 is basically Vista SP1 with a new taskbar and some slight behind the scenes streamlining.
As everyone here is well aware, Vista wasn't very good when it first came out. It was buggy, tended to bog down, didn't have drivers for everything like XP did, and was installed on a bunch of machines that could barely handle it. It was a mess. SP1 pretty much fixed 99.999% of all the problems it had at launch, but it was too late. Vista had already made a name for itself as something to avoid at all cost.
Remember when MS ran that HEY SURPRISE IT'S VISTA ad campaign? Remember how it didn't do crap to get people to buy it? Yeah.
Remember when Windows 7 came out, and everyone was singing its praises to high heaven, though it didn't perform any better than a patched Vista? Yup. It was a reputation patch. A slight update with an entirely different name to separate it from what came before. It obviously worked, because people are still clinging to it to this day, and saying it's the best OS MS has ever released.
IMO MS will become one of the big two in mobile, with Apple. Notn thios week, maybe not next week
but this two giant companies are computer companies with brand names. If MS hadnt diddled around then jumped into mobile once everybody had bought a phone/tablet it would be sooner. Android appears to be yesterdays news, although it will still be big, given the many and large range of devices, i predict Applea and MS will dominate proceddings in mobile in two to three years. Once the slide gathers momentum, and 5 drop in Android becomes a 10% shift in share. If more manyfactures shift Android to Windows 10 then it gathers momentum.