“Next week, Microsoft will finally pull the covers off on a new OS,” John Brandon reports for Fox News. “And despite what Microsoft wants you to believe, the next version of Windows might be more icing on the same old cake.”
MacDailyNews Take: No “mights” about it. It’s just more lipstick smeared all over the same old bloated pig.
“Michael Silver, a vice president at research firm Gartner who studies personal computers, exclusively told FoxNews.com that many companies have what he calls ‘migration fatigue’ and will skip Windows 8 entirely,” Brandon reports. “‘We … expect most companies to skip it,’ Silver told FoxNews.com. ‘To the extent that the market expects companies to adopt Windows 8 in large numbers, it may be disappointed.'”
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Brandon reports, “But there’s a silver lining to Windows 8, Silver said, a word that gives consumers goosebumps: tablets. ‘The market is obviously waiting for Microsoft to have an OS that can run on a tablet that can compete with the iPad,’ Silver told FoxNews.com. ‘So far, most of the Android tablets have been less than successful. Windows 8 will be another measure of whether there is a tablet market or just an iPad market,’ he said. With Windows 8, Microsoft has its guns aimed at the Apple iPad.”
“There’s a swift transition taking place to portable devices, and given the high sales figures of Apple products, Microsoft had better take note,” Brandon reports. “‘Apple is certainly coming on strong with both Mac OS X and iOS,’ Silver told FoxNews.com. ‘Users are requesting Macs more frequently… iOS devices are making the PC relatively less important and putting a lot of pressure on Microsoft to respond,’ he said.”
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There are so many problems with this. Most of them boil down to the fact that, MS, in their infinite laziness, are trying to fuse PCs with tablets, which is cool, except PC’s run on x86 chips and Tablets are mostly ARM.
So now MS is moving everything over to ARM. Great. Wait, what? You mean all my old apps… they won’t run? But they run perfectly in Windows 7? Ok great. Thanks MS. I’ll pass.
It is a worst-case nightmare if a company like Apple gets to be the dominant platform in the world, say, above 50% marketshare. Apple’s – we don’t listen to customers, but know what’s best for them, e.g. only glossy screens for desktops. You might like glossy screens (about 50% do), but you need to worry if Apple’s snowball gets much larger. Apple usually, i.e. mostly get it right, but when they miss, nothing can change them short of media humiliation e.g. the antenna-gate with iPhone 4.
Stay on windows then.
Use minis or Mac Pros and buy 3rd-party matte displays, or buy matte screen protectors. You can always make a glossy display appear matte, but you can’t go the other way – it’s almost like someone designed it that way;-)
Absolutely on target MM… the famous Apple arrogance. Maybe it will change with Steve’s departure but I’m not holding my breath. It may, in fact, get worse. It also may, in fact, ultimately doom Apple if they don’t recognize that customer care is their future – the shiny gadgets run their course but the sting of crappy service lives forever.
How is it the world of fantasy and make believe? Apple? Crappy service?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/apple-tops-pc-customer-service-rankings/
And frankly, Windows is as crappy as it is precisely because they DO listen their customers when designing software. Remember the commercials where Microsoft customers brag about “inventing” Windows features? Yeah, I really want an OS with features designed by some dweeb in a basement is striped pajamas who couldn’t spell “cat” if you spotted him the “C” and the “A”.
Your link is yesterday’s news – even older. Apple doesn’t do customer service like they used to. When you call Apple Care, you get a kid who is trained to quickly click through Apple’s web help pages. They guess at the answers to your questions. You wind up either insisting on an elevation (if you can get it) or leaving wondering why you paid the ransom for extended AppleCare. The Genius bar is not better. But, worst of all, is the incredible denial when something goes wrong – as it has more in the last 12 – 24 months than ever before – take a look: iMovie abandoned for a crippled substituted, Final Cut abandoned for an upgraded iMovie way too late to help iMovie users and a kick in the teeth to the Final Cut faithful. Result: off they go to Adobe.”Everybody wants glossy.” – famous Jobs arrogance. “Nobody needs DVDs.” – more Jobs arrogance. And the coup de grace: iPhone4 antenna fiasco and the resulting denial that Jobs and company sold to a legion of lemmings. These are the things that threaten the future of Apple. All we can do is to hope for the best because they sure as hell aren’t listening to us.
You forgot to capitalize your first name
MS will just revised the extension of office to a new one. Then tell everyone that they need to upgrade to W8 for MS compliance.
At least MS is learning to count. If they want this rehash to make an impact they better sell it in the Apple LION price range. But it seems MS sell their OS by the ounce priced like caviar instead of priced like fertilizer that it is.
“The market is obviously waiting for Microsoft to have an OS that can run on a tablet that can compete with the iPad…”
Obvious? Really? You mean those long lines at Microsoft’s stores waiting desperately for a Winblows tablet?
A tale of two releases: 2007 …. January 29th: Apple releases iPhone. January 30th: Microsoft releases Vista.
Let’s hurry up and go to Windows version 8, so we are not the same as ten.7 Lion. XP was a pretty good OS, as was 98se (for petrie dishes to grow viruses).
Meanwhile, at the Android ranch, they’re already talking about Android *5* (hear iOS 5?) Jelly Bean as the next big release, jumping right over 4 Ice Cream Sandwich. Fragment much? I still see devices being released with 2.2 or 2.3, and Xoom’s Honeycomb seems to have been a dud (AND the tablets have been duds, so even if Honeycomb is halfway decent, it would still be homeless. Now they’re talking 4 and 5. That’s a lot of OSes out there.
While Microsoft consolidates it’s OS into one, and Android is multiplying OSes like rabbits, I really like Apples one-two punch with OS X 10.7 Lion and iOS (come on ver. 5)
OH DEAR! Jobs UNSURPRISINGLY to NON crApple Fagbois (ie IQs into double figures) DIED TODAY!!!!
Right now the internet’s quaking with speculation about Steve Jobs’ possible death—all sparked by a single tweet. But rumors from news desks and people dumping AAPL stock are making us wonder: is this it?
It’s reminding us a lot of the media rumors that swirled up right before Patrick Swayze died of pancreatic cancer. It’s extremely hard to keep the lid on the death of a celebrity—today more than ever, thanks to websites like ours.
Steve jobs isn’t dead. He’s alive and well.
Quote Dr . McCoy ,Starship Enterprise Doctor :
“HE’S DEAD JIM! DEAD JIM!! DEADJIM!!!
HE’S DEAD JIM! DEAD JIM!! DEADJIM!!!
HE’S DEAD JIM! DEAD JIM!! DEADJIM!!!
HE’S ******* DEAD!!!!”
FOAD
Ahh… as I thought. Just more bloated brochure-ware from Bomber and his shrinking band of stumbling monkeys…. Winders has been a piece of junk now for DECADES, and by the reaction of many possible existing users and potential converts, it remains a piece of junk…
BYE BYE Bomber…. been nice to kick you around for a decade.. Maybe they can find an outpost you can man in Northern Finland for a new Nokia R&D venture for 2055…
As an OSX user I continue to be fascinated by the lack of confidence many other users (And MDN) have in what they choose to use. Why spend time being critical of a product you don’t use?
I drive a Honda. I don’t feel the need to justify my buying decision by criticizing other auto companies.
Ah man stopping making sense! That kind of attitude ain’t gonna fly around here! 😉
Right dude MDN hangs out holy trollers
like or not windows OS will continue to dominate market. even Apple Mac OS X has grown so faster. but it’s still weak in terms of marketing. I don’t think that Apple will ever turn their market share in life. 10% in US is great. but in the world, even it’s grown, it’s still less than 4-5 %. it is barely existed. Apple is popular. but mostly for mobile devices (iphone, ipad, ipod worldwide). mac machine is still expensive to own for world citizens. it’s is only good for US. not other countries.
apple are not interested in dominant markets share of the desktop os Market.
The desktop os is yesterday’s tech, mobile os is where the big money is these days.
The days of a computer being the hug of the digital world is over, everything is mobile and cloud or will be.
The future of the os Market is web os’s, in other words a browser. Software won’t need to be installed on hard drives either it will be from the cloud and a px is just a dead terminal you use to access the software on the web.
That is the future of operating systems and computing.
MDN take dead on. In your often excessive exuberance describing the perfection of all things Apple (actually a long way from perfection and, I believe, they deliberately hold back on what they could be delivering) it is simply impossible to to overstate the horridness of the bloated pig named Windows. I’m stuck with it at the office and it is pure misery. Just about all the IT guys now agree but say conversion is hopeless. So, I suffer on… stealing away (like some old smoke break) with my iPhone for a few minutes when it just gets too much for me. Is there a group of some kind for victims like me?
At my work I only just got upgraded from XP to Windows 7 a few weeks ago, and I’m one of a handful of people running it outside of the IT dept, everybody else will be on XP until their machines get replaced. It’s gonna take a few years before everybody is on Windows 7 so Windows 8 is out of the question for at least 5 years… by which point it will be Windows 9 or 10.. so I agree with the prediction that Windows 8 will be ignored in the corporate world just like Vista was.