Did we all just witness Windows start to die?

[djos]

If Windows is dying, it's because they hacked it to death trying to turn it into a tablet OS, not because of this "death-of-the-PC" myth nonsense.

Agreed, Windows 8 is a POS, I binned my PC and bought a Mac, I have Parallels+Win7 just in case but I rarely ever need it.

[djos]

MS are in trouble really, they are doing 'ok' with their phone platform, the XBOX One probably won't be as successfully as the 360,

I disagree, the pre-order numbers are waay ahead of the 360 according to the analysts (same for ps4) - i waited for the hdmi 360 myself before buying but i've pre-ordered a One as I think it will be pretty good. The HD Skype alone is going to be great for us with lots of family and freinds OS.

[djos]

I think there will always be a place for desktop workstations, they may become a niche but like mainfarames they will continue to exist for a long time.

[djos]

At one point Windows NT did run just like you describe, on multiple architectures... I know, I has a ARC bios Olivetti prototype machine that ran NT 4.0 -  which was actually quite nice.  The machine has a MIPS processor. I had to chuck it when a cheap KVM blew out the PS2 port. before that, it would actually run 16bit x86 Windows programs under emulation but not 32bit.

I've seen NT4.0 running on SGI and DEC Alpha machines too. :cool:

[djos]

I agree, I mean wtf is the journaled file system and proper object oriented architecture?

[djos]

XP to Win8, mate I started with dos 2.1 !!!

[djos]

The ribbon interface is the epitome of horrific, terrible, badly thought out design. I wish death upon the person who thought it up, and their families. There is much hate here.

Seriously, I like the Ribbon a lot and it's the only thing I miss in Office 2011 for Mac! (it's kind of a ribbon prototype in Mac Office).

[djos]

Pretty loose definition of Unix.  Any looser and you could include Windows in there too. Unix-VMS-NT-Win8. You do realise Linux is not a Unix branch. Not officially N E way.

@djos : The Office 2013 Ribbon is a bit more touch friendly but it's not there yet.

Sorry Gertsy but POSIX compliance in the WinNT CLI does not equal "based on Unix".

I rather like it especially in Excel, I find now that i'm used to it I can find what I want orders of magnitude quicker than before. (PS, couldnt care less about touch, Im talking on real computers)

[djos]

I had several iPhones then got a HTC WinPhone running 7.5 which was crap, interesting but ultimately crap. And then I got a HTC Sensation running GB2.3 which I hated and the morons took nearly 2 years just to update it to ICS4.0 which was too late for me as I only kept it for 6 months and ditched it for an iPhone4s which I bought outright.

I did have the HTC rooted and running ARHD 6.x for a while before the company I worked for banned rooted/JB'd smartphones from their network on pain of Job loss. I must say tho there is really nothing I miss from Droid at all - even if you gave me a choice between two identical smart phones and one was droid and the other was iOS, I'd take the iOS phone every day!

The iOS apps are better quality, the UI is polished and consistent, things "just work", iOS updates come direct from Apple with no delays imposed by OEM's and Carriers and your phone is fully supported with updates for at least 3 years. 95% of Droid handsets are literally abandonware - only a few elite models see any real OS update support!

[djos]

Android claims to be more open than iOS but the reality is very different, Google have actually handed the carriers more power than they have ever had and the reality is iOS gives consumers a better deal with no carrier bloatware, no carrier controlled updates, no carrier branding uglifying your phone and you know what you get every time you buy an iDevice, a consistent apple user and support experiance.

[djos]

Ahem.... http://www.google.com/nexus/all/

As they say, one swallow does not a spring make!

The nexus range so far don't even support global 4G!

I don't know the state of 4G in the UK but here in Australia and also the US we have multile 4g networks to choose from and the thought of buying a new handset and being stuck on 3G for 1-2 years is ludicrous!

[djos]

We have ONE 4G network and it's crap too. lol

We've got one great one (Telstra), one decent one (Optus) and then we have the carrier known here by most as VodaFail

[djos]

From what I've read the google Version of the s4 does not support global 4g frequencies!

[djos]

That may be true, but I doubt he ever gone so far as to upgraded the OS on his personal iPhone...

Otherwise that process would be better...

What's so hard about it? It does it for you with two finger taps!

[djos]

That's what she said!

*groans*