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That's complete nonsense. Windows has had hardware-agnostic APIs for years now. It's the quirks of driver interactions and system addons that cause bizarre behavior that makes PC debugging hectic. Metro (or any other aspect of Win8) will do jack to fix that.

FALSE. :quickdraw: It's a major step towards solving a bunch of problems.

My bet is Metro style apps will run without problems in 10 years from now on the latest version of Windows. Will bump thread in a decade to confirm.

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I guess we'll see - but the question for most people is how they'll run in the meantime...

In ten years we will find out. I will also bump the thread "Any more news on the laptop" to see if we have any more information on it as well.

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I'm betting that'll be a "no" :lol:

Nah, probably "Big announcement in two weeks."

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Guess so . Being 35 and not living at home (=parents) anymore may set its limitations on that :rolleyes:

Try being cuter, that is what my son does. If you are super cute you can get way better things. True Story.

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IBM and Google are television evangelists? I think we can end this conversation here. We don't have any frames of reference that are in the same realm of sanity.

I always think that Linux desktop domination is ALWAYS 10 years away. Though ChromeOS netbooks for $250 is pretty interesting. I wonder if you can take that horrid POS off and install some Linux Distro on it. If so it'd be useful.

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It's as far away as Mac domination, and always will be. But the desktop is only one part of computing nowadays.

Yes, Linux currently is winning the mobile race. But Android performance is horrid. Sad when Apple (IOS) AND MS (WinRT, WinPhone8) software is more efficient than the competition. I blame Java. There is a reason Android phones are all Quad Core and Apple and MS can get away with dual core, half the ram and have similar performance.

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Which one is best?
 

Red Star OS is best OS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

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I predict Surface and Win 8 along with whatever new Xbox they deploy will be the nail in Sony and Apples coffin.  Mark my words.

Sony is in big trouble in the console world. Plus their controllers suck compared to perfection of the 360. If MS changes the controller I will rage harder than when Honey Boo Boo runs out of Redbull.:furious:

Apple will probably eventually be #3 in the phone and #2 in the tablet world after a few years. The amount of apps that will be in the Windows App store compared to the competition will be astounding due to the much much greater installed user base.

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It's hard to believe how badly Sony bungled the console market after the domination of the PS2.

As far as Apple and phones, I don't know. So far, they seem to hold on to it pretty tight. Not sure I'd get hopes up for windows mobile though. I work for one of the major US carriers and I don't remember ever hearing a call where a customer asked for a windows phone. It's android or apple, nothing else.

In the tablet market though, things might get interesting over the next few years, which would be good.

It will be some time for mobile, I bet windows takes the bargain market. It runs on less powerful hardware fine compared to android.

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A.  not true.
B.  not true either.

I'm guessing that the last time you tried installing a linux, it was more than 5 years ago and was a distro like gentoo or slax or LFS.

Did someone say "install gentoo" ?

http://i.imgur.com/oy4JJ.png

Freedom, bros, freedom.

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Um, yeah, IF you're using a current version.
AND btw, even WinXP SP2 isn't current enough for Windows update to work with correctly.
As I've mentioned before, in order to use a 2005 copy of Win XP Media Center I had to manually install SP3, then let the system install 119 software patches, then install Java, Flash, a PDF reader and a bunch of audio and video codecs (so that I could play DVDs and work with video and audio files).
 
So no gentleman, it doesn't "just work".
 
I can install Ubuntu just about as easily as Win7 and get similar functionality.
 
But like ANY OS, if I want to do something that isn't mainstream I'm going to have to work on it.
BFD.

To be honest/fair MS can't include too much in the base OS because of anti-trust lawsuits. Imagine if Windows came with Paint.Net, VLCPlayer, SumatraPDF etc. (imagine MS bought those companies) all the anti-trust lawsuit lawyers would cream their pants, because OMFG MICROSOFT IS TRYING TO MONOPOLY!!!!!

Already there are mumblings of a lawsuit due to including MSE in Windows8 and the App store in "Metro". I wouldn't be surprised either.

In closing MSE is pretty damn good, anyone who runs a Windows system and wants Virus protection is well advised to pick up a copy (for free)

In double closing: Java.... ewww.... burn it off your computer because **** Oracle.

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Actually, Java has never been a problem for me. Now ActiveX, that was just stupid.
I forgot about VLC Player. Thank God, that's available (its one of the packages I downloaded), plus with it onboard I now have additional codecs for Media Player.
 
And I'm not likely to adopt Win8 any time soon as there are no features that it provides that I desire.

Yeah not going to go and upgrade just for the sake of upgrading. I do want a Surface though, but at the moment I'm not going to buy one. I'll wait until another manufacturer releases a decent x86 tablet for under $500. I heard AMD mumbling about having a decent processor in the works for tablets, I like AMD because their RADEON line is great.

Being able to walk around my store using a handheld scanner to enter/order items directly into my POS/inventory software will be a pretty nice thing to have.

edit: Some people don't like VLC, Windows Media Player Classic is pretty good as well. I do like winamp for music though, the classic interface makes me be able to pretend I am using AmigaAmp.

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Not sure I'm ready for this yet (I don't own a Smartphone or any other multi-touch device).
Who knows? Maybe in the future.

I resisted smartphones as long as possible. Now that I have one I couldn't go without the ability to check my calendar on the go. That's the main thing I use it for, and to prove my friends that I am right during arguments.

I do like Siri on my friends phones because I can ask it where Steve Jobs is buried, and where Tim Cook parks his car. I also take their phones and change it so Siri thinks their name is "Bitch please" and other silly things.

Android is great though for nerds, you can get UAE4Droid and use wii controllers to play "them games"

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Feature phones had calendar's too, how old was the phone you used to have?

I mean google calander, I need to be able to let multiple people access my calender one confined to my phone wont work.

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I love linux, but I have to agree here.  I dislike gimp as well.

I love PAINT.NET it's perfect for small jobs. Though it's not available for linux. I tried gimp as well and wasn't a big fan either.