Windows worldwide market share is stuck at 15% and falling

[som99]

I have to say I am with Commodorejohn and Linde on this subject, there are to much gain in stationary/laptop x86 PC's that can't be traded away for handheld touch devices, sure some people can do most of their computing needs on handheld devices but every single one I know have either a stationary computer or a laptop, they use their handhelds at the TV under comercials and on the go.

I know people in a wide age span, my youngest sister is 24 years younger then me and all of em use full size x86 Machines.

Ive even noticed a wide range of heavy handheld device users use it mostly for their Facebook/twitter/flikr needs and cheking the weather (beside Calling/texting) and as soon they need to type something bigger or browse the internet more then news sites they go to a x86 machine.

I don't know facts and numbers, I just state what I see around me and my eyes do not see the end of PC's.

I don't see how a 4-10" handheld could dominate the average joe's all computing needs either if he is a techie or not.

There is just so much you can not do without a mouse/keyboard and propper display size not to forget the ergonomics.

Just my two cents without going to deep in the subject.

Sorry about misspellings and such, im tired after a night with Stargate

Edit: Good night

[som99]

Here is my Windows 8 machine as close as possible to classic windows themes, not accurate enough, no icon change etc just colors and classic shell installed, but as close as it gets without skinning with windows blinds etc, the start menu is from "classic shell" with my own start button.
All Metro UI stuff is turned off and won't pop up whatever yuo do, you have to manually edit the configs to turn it on again.

image shrinked to 70% from 1920x1080.

[som99]

11 Hard Drives?

No, 8 physical and 3 extra partitions

Damn, that's eerily similar to my Windows setup in regards to drives/partitions, even down to the labels

Great minds think alike

Enough disk space there, som99?

Running really low on that machine, but planning on expanding it soon and use the old drives in my file server/seed box

11 hard drives being managed through metro touch screen interface. No wonder you are not happy.

You make me happy Kesa

[som99]

Do partitions make sense in a modern OS?

For dual boot it does and to dedicate partitions to VMWare
Edit: and of course F: has a ghost image of freshly installed Windows + all drivers etc and important applications.