Did we all just witness Windows start to die?

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Windows will linger on as the operating system of the desktop, which will go the way of the netbook, dodo and Google Wave in a decade or so.

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Deniers gotta deny.

Keep repeating your same old mantra, persia. Maybe if you wish hard enough it will come true.

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I look forward to websites dedicated to PC believers.  Maybe a red (Windows versus blue (Windows 7) camps, both demanding new hardware for their aging OSs as the world moves on largely oblivious to them.

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And the ribbon in Word/Excel etc is even harder to use on a touch screen than it is on a non-touch screen.

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@psxphill, tablets and desktops are both computers, one is declining in sales numbers, one is increasing in sales numbers.  Yeah, it could be coincidence, and the nay sayers could be right the two aren't related.  But more often than not if you have two similar things and one is going up and the other down there is a link...

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To a different point Unix has won the tablet war, it's down to Linux based Android and BSD based iOS.  Unix installed base now is around 900 million devices.  The installed base of Windows is hard to calculate because it's been around longer, how many of the 3 billion manufactured units are still in use?  1 in 3?  The numbers are likely close.

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Windows is dieing because they still don't get the market, keep it simple, two desktops is not simple.  The charms bar is not intuitive at all.

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Android is basically Linux wit a usable GUI.

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I must admit Ice Cream Sandwich is pretty nice, you know an OS has come of age when it stops stealing ideas from Apple and Apple starts stealing ideas from it.

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Being mainly an Apple person I haven't gotten to use Jelly Bean too much, what are some of the best new features of Jelly Bean?

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Microsoft called the Windows 8 interface "metro" in a couple of press releases over a year and a half ago, it was a code name for the design language they used to make the Windows 8 interface.  It's like calling Windows 7 "Vienna."