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Yay or Nay? The Windows 8 Metro Interface
megido-rev.M:
Speaking of OEMs.
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on November 20, 2012, 09:35:54 PM ---Unfortunately taking a high moral ground and not purchasing a product of a corporation of that size will have zero effect. They won't give a shit as long as they sell OEM in hundred of millions copies.
Whining and bitching, getting media attention of the issue and hopefully provoke selling hysteria in stockholders that way is what actually works.
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No, but if lots of people refuse to buy it - which is what's happening, much like it happened (to a lesser extent) with Vista - then Microsoft will notice, and will at least try and placate people in order to avoid losing too many sales. OEM is their main source of business, but alienating too big a proportion of their individual and enterprise customers is something they'll want to avoid. It's basic marketing.
EDIT: Especially so if, as that news report suggests, OEM sales have failed to meet estimates.
AceHigh:
Ha! MS blaming hardware manufacturers not to deliver "inspiring" hardware. Did they really expect that because of Win8, all manufacturers would instantly stop desktop and notebook production and jump on tablet bandwagon, or did they expect everyone to start manufacturing only touch screens?
Pagonis:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on November 20, 2012, 10:02:02 PM ---Ha! MS blaming hardware manufacturers not to deliver "inspiring" hardware. Did they really expect that because of Win8, all manufacturers would instantly stop desktop and notebook production and jump on tablet bandwagon, or did they expect everyone to start manufacturing only touch screens?
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Eh? Hardware manufacturers are indeed not delivering inspiring hardware. Same old boring stagnation.
Last couple years, only Asus made something more inspiring - ZenBook. And ZenBook is just following forced guidelines by a fucking CPU manufactorer - Intel. Really, how pathetic is that?
Just look at smartphones - BlackBerry, Android, iOS. Same old, same old. Atleast Windows Phone 7 tried something new. Ofcourse, primitive back end giving multitasking, copy paste problems sucked, but Win Phone 8 fixed that and still has that better new age UI.
kitamesume:
i kinda miss the convertible tablets, wish they reintroduce it with some muscle in it.
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