It's 20 years on, and Windows still doesn't have...

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Largely because Amiga lacks a corporate headquarters.  AI even had trouble paying it's $25/month hosting fees...

Amiga OS also lacks the ability to phone home to a corporate headquarters.

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What we are seeing is the decline of the desktop computer as a "personal computer." Businesses will use desktops, gamers, professional programmers, etc will use desktops, but your casual user is drifting away from desktops.  Tablets and smart phones along with smart TVs are the future for the hoi polloi.

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I'm just glad they got rid of the flop up windows ball menu thing that listed the apps folder, the one that was formerly known as start.  It was just an annoyance.

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I would have said that all operating systems limit their users in some way, shape or form.    What the AMiga lacks is the basic tools that developers need to develop software in and a market for developers to sell those products in once they.  

There are more iOS, OS X, and MS Windows users in your typical shopping mall than there are Amiga users in the world...

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I've been playing with Windows 8 and I think Microsoft tried to do too much in one bite.  The deprecated old Windows desktop's presence is annoying, I find myself asking where the h*** did Metro go many many times.  There's just something counter intuitive to having both Metro and the legacy desktop there.

Windows 7 is rock solid but it's starting to show it's age.

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Because touch is the future.  Everyone moaned when the introduced the mouse, too.  The desktop/laptop are about to become a niche.

I have a MacPro at home and at work, but my MacBook is starting to feel abandoned because of my iPad.  Keynotes, web surfing, youtube, facebook, even server maintenance. It's all there and all better on my iPad.

We are on the very beginning of a new computer generation.  Windows 7 is the pinnacle of the mouse age, but that age is ending.

See, and this is something I don't understand...

Basically, it works well, but the problem is that it's looking old???

If it's designed to work well, and it does work well, why change it?

Just because it's been like that for a while and it's time to change?

I'm not a fan of change for the sake of change...

I love change where it makes sense...

Just me..

desiv

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What I'm saying is that desktops will linger where they are needed as minicomputers and mainframes do today, but the average user is better off at home with a tablet device.  But that being said, Apple didn't put the iOS desktop on OS X or vica versa, they tuned the two branches of the OS for each environment, this is likely what MS should have done.

Apple is smart, with the "Magic Pad," I hardly ever use my mouse on my MacPros.  Microsoft is showing the world it still doesn't get it, the two (desktop/laptop and tablet/phone) are different media and need to be developed for differently.

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120 Million is the forecast tablet sales in 2012, it was 60 Million in 2011 and they predict 140 million sold in 2013.  Traditional desktop sales are flat at around 120 million a year. So basically if projections are right, and we are 7 months into the year, tablet and desktop sales for the year will be about equal....

Really?
I thought they were around 50 mil in March and predicting 100 mil by the end of the year.

Still a lot.

desiv