MS Windows 8 Consumer Beta

[SysAdmin]

Got it, YAWN, tiles are great on my kitchen floor, not so much for my OS. Here comes Vista 2.0.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401064,00.asp

For a long time M$ has been missing it's best feature (Billy Gates). Like him or not, without him MS is doomed.

[SysAdmin]

Yeah - I hear ya on the xbox dashboard.  You know who doesn't hate the new xbox dashboard?  My wife.

These ugly interfaces are focus grouped to DEATH.  I won't call it Vista, and I will refuse to buy it for myself most likely, but it is the future.  Its the future for the computer as appliance generation -- we are not that generation.

Yes, those types of interfaces might be the future. CDTV started that trend, one of the CDTV guys actually works for the xbox division. It's very doubtful that MS will capture that computer as an appliance future. Apple already dominates it and GoogleTV is nice too. Lets not forget Android which sells and sells.

[SysAdmin]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/03/andrew_does_windows8/

[SysAdmin]

@LoadWB

What home & mobile market is left for MS to capture? Apple & Google already own it.

[SysAdmin]

Mobile, perhaps.  But home is still owned by Windows.  For now, at least.

Not my home, Apple's 100 billion $ in the bank and 500 billion $ market cap proves it is not only me.




This

http://www.google.com/finance?client=news&q=apple

Vs


http://www.google.com/finance?q=microsoft

[SysAdmin]

Perhaps they should have made a tablet and desktop version. Both tailored to the environment in question. I can see a lot of desktops sticking with 7.

Why have a tablet or desktop when you can have a table?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlWCgWCoeOg

[SysAdmin]

Is Windows 8 Metro failing even at Microsoft?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/is-windows-8-metro-failing-even-at-microsoft/10311