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Skipping over 9...We have 10 on the horizon!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29431412
So far so good. I reluctantly moved over to 8.1 last week and have been broadly impressed so far.
Personally, I wish larger screens and text sizes were handled better but I doubt that will get looked at....
Anyway, anyone going to get on the beta?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29431412
So far so good. I reluctantly moved over to 8.1 last week and have been broadly impressed so far.
Personally, I wish larger screens and text sizes were handled better but I doubt that will get looked at....
Anyway, anyone going to get on the beta?
At last! The start menu back.
My wife has been using windows 8 for a long time and hates the missing start menu.
I do not use win 8 and do not use it in the office for the same reason.
Radically differs from win 7 to make everyday tasks more of a chore to do!
I work in IT and one thing users do not like is a radically new UI.
They do not want to spend weeks or months relearning how to do things they could do easily before.
MS got this one wrong.
My wife has been using windows 8 for a long time and hates the missing start menu.
I do not use win 8 and do not use it in the office for the same reason.
Radically differs from win 7 to make everyday tasks more of a chore to do!
I work in IT and one thing users do not like is a radically new UI.
They do not want to spend weeks or months relearning how to do things they could do easily before.
MS got this one wrong.
Was at a customer office today when this news was announced. They moved to Win 7 for desktops last year, and plan to be on it until EOS in 2020.
With more and more apps being provided by VDI/ Thin Client/ Citrix - mostly accessed by browsers- why do they need to give their users anything more than Windows 7?
Its a valid point. If you can secure these platforms a new OS - carry on with what you have.
I think people are not just playing Microsofts upgrade game any more. It's too much of an upheaval and cost for little extra benefit to the workplace. I only know of 1 large corporate who has moved to Win 8.
With more and more apps being provided by VDI/ Thin Client/ Citrix - mostly accessed by browsers- why do they need to give their users anything more than Windows 7?
Its a valid point. If you can secure these platforms a new OS - carry on with what you have.
I think people are not just playing Microsofts upgrade game any more. It's too much of an upheaval and cost for little extra benefit to the workplace. I only know of 1 large corporate who has moved to Win 8.
sly fox said:
I think people are not just playing Microsofts upgrade game any more. It's too much of an upheaval and cost for little extra benefit to the workplace. I only know of 1 large corporate who has moved to Win 8.
The firm I worked for rolled out Windows 8 over a weekend, that was great fun watching everyone struggle on the Monday morning.....I kept Windows 7. Needed a 'legacy' rig in case some software didn't work They haven't made me upgrade yet!
dxg said:
Is everyone forgetting that microsoft went straight from Word 2 to Word 6?
wasn't that so they could have a higher edition number than WordPerfect which was the standard at the time. I guess they are figuring by the time they get windows 10 out the door apple will be on IOS 9 but in reality the rate they knock them out they will likely be on IOS 11 or 12 at which point windows will conveniently go back to following the years with windows 16RobDickinson said:
There is an official quote from a Microsoft exec saying that 9 wouldn't have been enough to show how much has changed. No mention of luck...
Marketing BS, it's simply Win8 was sales poison and they want consumers to consider this more than 'the next one'. 10 will be a mix of 7 and 8, a start menu with colourful tiles - all the moaners wanted was a start menu - personally I would have renamed Win7 as Windows Enterprise or Windows Faster Horses because business owners don't want to lose a few hours of productivity for their staff to learn the new OS (frankly, 10 minutes was all you needed) and marched on with the 8 format for rest of us.
I find this move depressing really, finally after 2 years of end users crying like babies to us "but it's different waaaaaaaaaa" and ordering Win7 machines, we were finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel as people seemed to be buying Win8 machines for home and wanted them for work very quickly after - but this will kill that dead.
The company I work for has just rolled out 8.1 to everyone. It's a massive shower of st. Although I think a lot of that is to do with the fairly shoddy way they have rolled it out to everyone, with limited testing. A couple of years ago I would have expected better from a fortune 500 company but they same as bad as anyone.
sly fox said:
Was at a customer office today when this news was announced. They moved to Win 7 for desktops last year, and plan to be on it until EOS in 2020.
With more and more apps being provided by VDI/ Thin Client/ Citrix - mostly accessed by browsers- why do they need to give their users anything more than Windows 7?
Its a valid point. If you can secure these platforms a new OS - carry on with what you have.
I think people are not just playing Microsofts upgrade game any more. It's too much of an upheaval and cost for little extra benefit to the workplace. I only know of 1 large corporate who has moved to Win 8.
Open source software is improving (Android, Chrome). With Apple hardware (yes I know you pay for it) the OS and Apple software is free. Various 'App Stores' have moved consumer expectations from £40/application to £1 max/application.With more and more apps being provided by VDI/ Thin Client/ Citrix - mostly accessed by browsers- why do they need to give their users anything more than Windows 7?
Its a valid point. If you can secure these platforms a new OS - carry on with what you have.
I think people are not just playing Microsofts upgrade game any more. It's too much of an upheaval and cost for little extra benefit to the workplace. I only know of 1 large corporate who has moved to Win 8.
Software is Microsoft's core competency, and it's being rapidly commoditised. That's why they've moved into hardware more, and want to rent you Office.
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