Yay or Nay? The Windows 8 Metro Interface

[megido-rev.M]

Speaking of OEMs.

[Bob2004]

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.

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]

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?

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.

[SirSkyRider]

i kinda miss the convertible tablets, wish they reintroduce it with some muscle in it.

I actually want one of these... it'd be kind of cool for university stuff. Though I would rather prefer a less powerful device which is light, slim and has a long battery life.

[kureshii]

Like say for example like when Direct X stops making Win 7 versions? Because you know that'll happen.

Directx 11.1 is already Win8-only. Although MS capitulated a little and decided to release *some* of those features to Windows 7. Doubt it's going to happen for many more versions.

i kinda miss the convertible tablets, wish they reintroduce it with some muscle in it.

Lenovo Ideapad Yoga.

I actually want one of these... it'd be kind of cool for university stuff. Though I would rather prefer a less powerful device which is light, slim and has a long battery life.

There are Windows 8 Atom-powered tablets around, some with keyboard docks, others convertible-like. I saw one with a quoted battery life of 14 hrs; you can probably expect at least 10 hrs in practical use with that.

[kitamesume]

i kinda miss the convertible tablets, wish they reintroduce it with some muscle in it.

Lenovo Ideapad Yoga.

now if only it wasnt $999 might as well stick to a Win8 phone.

[metro.]

i kinda miss the convertible tablets, wish they reintroduce it with some muscle in it.

Lenovo Ideapad Yoga.

now if only it wasnt $999 might as well stick to a Win8 phone.

I saw a girl with a Nokia 920, so fucking pretty.

[Freedom Kira]

I saw a girl with a Nokia 920, so fucking pretty.

Dammit, I can't wait to get mine.

[metro.]

I saw a girl with a Nokia 920, so fucking pretty.

Dammit, I can't wait to get mine.

I wanted to get it or the 8X, but neither are coming to Telus, so I won't be getting them.

[kitamesume]

I saw a girl with a Nokia 920, so fucking pretty.

Dammit, I can't wait to get mine.

i had the 820 in mind though that works too. although i wonder if i could install a custom android ROM if win8 isn't as pretty as they say.
or i might just stick with eye'ing the samsung note I(not II, too expensive).

[mgz]

there is just no reason to use windows 8 for most pc users.
I mean if sales are sluggish thats really bad since half the new pcs and laptops either are coming with 8 now or have FOR 15$ GET WINDOWS 8

they simply pushed to much on this shit to be PC side instead of making it a Windows Touch or something like that, and making it their OS to compete with android.

[megido-rev.M]

I swear I heard somewhere stating that the guy who was in charge of Windows dev recently left. Just never found out exactly why.

[Freedom Kira]

I wanted to get it or the 8X, but neither are coming to Telus, so I won't be getting them.

Real men buy unlocked.

[metro.]

I wanted to get it or the 8X, but neither are coming to Telus, so I won't be getting them.

Real men buy unlocked.

RealBroke University students can't afford to buy unlocked.

[Slysoft]

I wanted to get it or the 8X, but neither are coming to Telus, so I won't be getting them.

Real men buy unlocked.

RealBroke University students can't afford to buy unlocked.

I guess it's time to break out ye olde resume.

[Mirgond]

i kinda miss the convertible tablets, wish they reintroduce it with some muscle in it.

Lenovo Ideapad Yoga.

now if only it wasnt $999 might as well stick to a Win8 phone.

I saw a girl with a Nokia 920, so fucking pretty.

Girl or Phone?

[AceHigh]

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?

Really? I know that CPU development is a bit slowed down because they pretty much have to use new materials to really increase performance, but graphic card developments have been really cool for the last few years. SSDs are now becoming mature and have accessible price.

Also, Zenbook? Too big to put in a pocket losing the portability contest with a smartphone and too shitty hardware to be compared to proper computers. In fact tablets suffer from the same problem. No, inspiring hardware can come in many different formats, but smearing your greasy fingers over a glossy screen on a weak computer is not one of them in my opinion and that is pretty much the only thing that Microsoft is hinting at. They made one single major alteration to windows 8 over the predecessor and it is touch screen UI. There is nothing inspiring about putting touch screens on all kind of computers.

[megido-rev.M]

No, inspiring hardware can come in many different formats, but smearing your greasy fingers over a glossy screen on a weak computer is not one of them in my opinion and that is pretty much the only thing that Microsoft is hinting at. They made one single major alteration to windows 8 over the predecessor and it is touch screen UI. There is nothing inspiring about putting touch screens on all kind of computers.

There are plenty of people who like smearing their greasy fingers on everything: makes me wanna puke a bit.