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Anyone?

I think I am going to wait to take the plunge. I am very happy and comfortable with Windows 7. Very stable and fast for me. Without a touch screen, not sure what Win 8 can offer me.

I'm of the same mind on this....what's the point without a touch screen??

Using Win7, very good, but XP is still my favorite. Don't know why, but these simplified interfaces make me feel "out of control" of my PC configs.

Gotta move to Linux someday if sotwares I need daily come there.

I used to be one who'd want to immediately make the switch to new operating systems, software upgrades, etc., but really don't care to do so as much anymore. I'm still on iOS 5 on my iPhone and really am not interested in upgrading any time soon unless I absolutely have to.

conversationpc wrote:I used to be one who'd want to immediately make the switch to new operating systems, software upgrades, etc., but really don't care to do so as much anymore. I'm still on iOS 5 on my iPhone and really am not interested in upgrading any time soon unless I absolutely have to.

I actual just drove to Staples to pickup Windows 8 for $39 and after playing with it a bit I said fuck it and walked out of there. Doesn't do much for me. Not too fond of the interface. Windows 7 is just fine for me.

I recently updated my Ipod Touch to IOS6 and now home sharing is working erratically and it was fine before. Ugghh.

I weny from XP to Windows 7 & love it.

I'm perfectly fine with Windows 7.

Memorex wrote:Anyone?

I think I am going to wait to take the plunge. I am very happy and comfortable with Windows 7. Very stable and fast for me. Without a touch screen, not sure what Win 8 can offer me.

Complete POS. Hate it.

Wiped my laptop clean to get rid of it.

This is a huge risk for Microsoft. So far this isn't going so well. I have zero interested in purchasing this POS. It might sink the company. Watch your stock if you have some and get the hell out when it starts to plummet, which I believe it will after this.

Windows 8 can do ok if there are many new tablets that run it successfully. It also follows the iOS method of allowing for purchase of apps. But not enough draw for me yet.

And what the hell is with Office 365? Could they get anymore confusing with the licensing and how things work. They took a completely fine desktop app and while trying to get to the cloud, screwed it up horribly. I tried a couple times to go with Office 2013 preview and abandoned it solely because of the sign in crap and not knowing exactly what i was even running.

I just don't have time in my life if it's not super-intuitive.

Followed the development and roll-out of W8 very closely if for no other reason than to see how HUGE of a plunge Microsoft's stock and ultimately their overall place in the tech world is going to fall. It doesn't take a genius to realize the definition of "personal computing" has and continues to change due to the enormous appeal and seemingly limitless capabilities of smart phones and tablets. The sale of PC's have plummeted by over 70% in the past 24 mos. with the majority of desktop sales attributed to businesses and municipalities. Sales of laptops went very soft about a year ago but saw a boost in sales in the 30 days prior to schools reconvening. That small burst in sales did almost nothing to reduce the large overstock of inventory mfrs. currently have. If you haven't watched the sales ads for Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, etc. over the past 3-4 months take a look at today's ads and you'll be shocked at how drastically reduced prices are for very decent laptops.

Microsoft saw the shift in what consumers were spending money on and continued to spend it on as the smart phone wave grew. Steve Ballmer met with the top developers and strategists at MS and together they saw the writing on the wall: The personal computer as we knew it is no longer the king of consumer technology and their Windows phone didn't receive the warm welcome they thought it would by the general public. In an almost desperate effort to keep their product viable and relevant Ballmer decided they needed an interface that would bring all the devices under one GUI and instructed his team to come up with an OS that would enable the end user to go from their phone to their tablet to their computer cross platform and operate and interface with them exactly the same way. What they came up with was Windows 8.

Unless you are one of those consumers who wants an OS that looks, feels, works, and smells the same across all your devices and you really like the clumsiness and aesthetic marvel of 8's GUI, there's really no benefit to converting.

Microsoft is betting the farm that Windows 8 will be the golden egg that keeps them atop the tech world and in my opinion, they chose the wrong path to do so. The long, hard fall of the once uber-colossal-giant of their industry is happening before our very eyes. Sure, their other end user products are and will continue to be mainstays in the industry, i.e., Office.... or will it? Oracle has hurt sales of MS Office dramatically with their open source and completely free office suite, Open Office which looks and feels exactly like MS Office and even lets you save your respective documents, presentations, etc. in MS format.

It will be interesting to see where Microsoft is a year from now.

Microsoft hasn't been a "leader" in anything in a long time...

Just like Gates missed the browser....

Balmer has missed the cloud....

slucero wrote:Microsoft hasn't been a "leader" in anything in a long time...

Just like Gates missed the browser....

Balmer has missed the cloud....

Well.... it depends on how you're defining "leader". When it comes to a PC with an OS, yeah.... they're most definitely the leader with 165 million registered copies of Win 7 within the first few weeks after it was released.

Now as for Balmer missing the cloud.... nope. He's been squarely in a cloud for years. Will probably never be able to hear his name and not immediately think of this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc