Comments on: Microsoft to mimic Apple yet again, move to once-per-year Windows upgrades, source say

By: trondude

trondude — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:56:13 +0000

So monthly patch Tuesday now becomes weekly patch Tuesday…Way to go!

By: danilko1

danilko1 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:01:53 +0000

Updates or refresh is in deed welcome. However it must not come a the cost of compatibility.

There are two levels to this. (in the form of service packs) and in the form of a version change.

If Microsoft committed to “service pack” level upgrades, annually, without changing internal structures, I see this as a positive move. Who cares if they copy Apple this way.

It’s a win for everyone.

By: Magic iBall

Magic iBall — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:09:30 +0000

Hello? I’m running Win8 SP2013 Pro Media Edition on my Surface Pro. When I use Skype the Surface reboots randomly. I think it might be a hardware problem. Or, it might be a problem with the seam. No, not the cover crease where the wire sticks out. I mean the seam. The seam. You know, the one with all the potential.. It’s the thingy between the hardware and the software with all the innovation. Hello? Hello?

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:37:57 +0000

So it took them 11 years to came out with a “modification” to windows XP to came out with the piece of crap or windows vista. Then, they jus tune up a little bit windows vista to came out with windows 7, 2 years afters, they came out with the biggest piece of crap with windows 8. If it takes them 12 or so years to came out with a kind of usable OS, how are they expecting to came out with a new release of windows every year? Is this an strategy to get rid of the remainding windows suffers?

By: opsono

opsono — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:55:08 +0000

*click* “Next?”

By: I love Apple

I love Apple — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:44:49 +0000

Great idea, MS. A full new OS disaster every single year.

By: MacFreek

MacFreek — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:31:22 +0000

Windows users can enjoy their masochistic experiences on a scheduled basis.

By: Jersey_Trader

Jersey_Trader — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:17:45 +0000

Ok. I thought they named it after the “Blue Screen of Death”.

The other Code Blue works too. You could have someone being defibrillated using two Surface jumpers. Then the doctor calls the time of death while signing off on his Apple iPad mini. The two Surface devices are then dumped in the Biohazard trash cans.

By: Indentured1

Indentured1 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:07:03 +0000

And another thought. Wasn’t Siri public beta? They sure charged for that…

By: Indentured1

Indentured1 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:05:14 +0000

CLEAR! Bang! Beeeeeeeeeeee. I’m sorry, the patient didn’t make it…

By: Now, Now...

Now, Now... — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:04:30 +0000

Codename Blue?… How about just ‘Code Blue’ Microsoft, because you’re dying here!

Microsoft, mimicking does not Apple one make.

By: Bizlaw

Bizlaw — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:02:01 +0000

Really? Microsoft, ye of the infamous Blue Screen of Death, named their new annual Windows update program “Blue”?

Now that’s ironic.

BTW, Apple doesn’t have an annual OS update program for Mac OS X, Apple updates OS X when it has an update ready. That was one of the big reasons, along with releasing other products when they’re ready and not when the media expects them to come out, that Apple dropped participation at Macworld.

By: spyintheskyuk

spyintheskyuk — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:53:16 +0000

Yes business customers will blow their top at the thought, most haven’t got beyond Vista or XP as yet. The reason Apple and Google can do this is that they do not have Dinosaur minded large scale corporations to deal with, or at least not on a company wide scale with massive IT infrastructure considerations. There is a very good reason Apple avoided such technological bogs that actually sustain Microsoft wallowing in the stagnant mud.

This is just a laughable proposition from Microsoft which clearly shows that they do not even know their own business, or perhaps they are simply panicking and running around like headless chickens as monkey boy staggers into their hen house. These updates will simply be a different name for the previous service packs and once again they think people are stupid enough to believe, and worse still actually pay for it.

By: Shadowself

Shadowself — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:53:07 +0000

Actually, Apple started with free software upgrades for the Mac System files.

Up through System 5, IIRC, (It was not call Mac OS back then) you could go into an authorized Apple reseller with a stack of floppies and copy the current version of the OS off any machine in the store that was not being utilized for something else (you certainly could not interrupt a salesman trying to sell a machine or a demonstration going on, etc.) and walk out with the latest and greatest version of the system files.

By: Lange Lovell

Lange Lovell — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:49:39 +0000

Maybe they hope small yearly failures will attract less attention than a very big one once every couple of years…

By: RePlay

RePlay — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:44:19 +0000

Yearly updates…formerly known as service packs. And when were their upGRADES ever 2-3 years? Running faster does not really mean running better. Nothing like a slow-motion disaster. Somebody pass the popcorn.

By: Manco

Manco — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:37:08 +0000

Meanwhile, OS X 10.9 wil sell for $9.99 and the yearly MS upgrades will still be $100 and up. I don’t see people voluntarily upgrading windows yearly at their prices.
I’m thinking Apple will eventually give OS X away for free. Kind of like iOS for the iPod cost $29.00 to start and now it’s all free.

By: WindozeBloze

WindozeBloze — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:08:35 +0000

Brown is more like it!

By: Bricktop Polford

Bricktop Polford — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:02:36 +0000

Apple dropped the ball on this. They should have patented yearly software updates!!!

By: NCG598

NCG598 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:00:23 +0000

Ok, not only Microsoft innovationing with this yearly update to their window dreck smirk ) and now their most stable ( IT lemmings) are going to follow with yearly updates? The idea being a pig can get yearly lipstick color change! Wow!

Ok, this should be interesting.

By: CourtJester

CourtJester — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:58:40 +0000

Interesting comment. Maybe M$ will move to upgrade home premium systems annually, but leave professional systems to a 4 to 8 year cycle. How laughable that would be.

By: MacRaven

MacRaven — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:46:55 +0000

I was always told all Microsloth’s business clients (which is mostly what they have left, as consumers with choice have switched to Apple) hate frequent updates. So that’s the Sloth didn’t have frequent updates. So the business scenario should get even more interesting in the next few years.

By: 24january1984

24january1984 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:36:43 +0000

Anoxic.

By: CourtJester

CourtJester — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:28:49 +0000

Unbelievable innovation from Microslow!