Ballmer: Surface "sweet spot" $300-$800, Windows 8 biggest thing since 95

[Guest]

I'm very worried. It's a tablet operating system. If someone wants to buy a tablet why would they even bother with Windows 8 or Surface. Especially, if the idea is looming to learn a new operating system which do you think they are going to want to learn, iOS or Windows 8? I'm not much for bitching about one company doing the same as another. I'm on Samsung's side when it comes to the whole patent dispute. I don't find anything alluring about Windows 8. Windows 8 starts up a little faster. I feel as unenthusiastic about that as I do about the new iPhone being thinner. With every new news article, I've considered just Hackintoshing my computer. Everything I cared about in Windows 7 was destroyed. They could have focused on there desktop more than they did and could have cornered another part of the tech industry. Now, they're just running behind Apple and now, Apple is starting to rework they desktop line. I've never owned a Macintosh Computer. But I'm pretty disappointed with Windows 8.

 

[Guest]

Correction - "their"

 

[Fbarnett]

Won't be touching Widows 8 with a 100 foot poll. I'm still running XP (thank goodness) and will be having a nice Linux box built in the next couple of months and go all the way with open source. MS and it's software is bloated and not worth half of what they ask for it. Everyone I talk to gets the open source sermon.

What there is a group of like 4 of you using Linux saying
how bad MS sucks?. Your probably using windows to post on this forum

 

[Lionvibez]

Microsoft shoots itself in the foot too often anymore. Why would anyone buy a new computer right now knowing that this new operating systems is looming over their heads? So if you were planning on buying a laptop or desktop with a MS operating system you are now in a circling pattern. Do I or don't I buy this now? So if you are a hardware manufacturer where does that leave you? Potential customers have just been told, in all reality, to wait until the new OS comes out.
Then you add to that the fact that Windows operating systems are suspect at best when introduced because of all the bloated crap that comes with it, if you do wait and buy after the new OS is available in your new PC, you may find out it's a turd or you may find out you like it. If it floats in the toilet then MS just lost another customer for life. Why do companies like MS insist on continuously introducing new software that makes no significant advances for the end user? I've never had and SP machine crash except for a virus once. XP is the most stable OS by this company and they should use that as a basis for the new software. Instead they have to be flighty and get every bell and whistle and hope for the best. The attitude that we'll fix the issues as they pop up sickens me. You see it in almost all software introduced just because there is a rush to market. And what sickens me most is the fact that there are *****s that flock to have the newest gimmick and they are the root of all this crappy software. I use XP because it came with the machine, once XP updates are no longer available I will start using linux machines. I've come to a realization that I just need to make the switch, I've put it off too long.

As soon as I read this I stopped reading.

" XP is the most stable OS by this company and they should use that as a basis for the new software. "

You have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[Guest]

https://www.techspot.com/review/561-windows8-vs-windows7/

Windows 8 is looking pretty nice to me...

 

[Guest]

Ballmer is nothing more than a suckup to Gates. He'll spew whatever nonsense he can that gushes favorable light on any MS product, no matter how useless. He loved Vista, Me, and now . . . Windows 8. The guy's a spewing baldy of a marketing sac.

 

[Guest]

I can answer the Hyper-V 2012 & SCVMM question. We have a license for SCVMM and downloaded Hyper-V server 2012 to test for a new VM host. Ended up purchasing Vmware vsphere. SCVMM will go unused...

 

[Guest]

Wow! You couldn't think of anything intelligent to say so you criticize his hairline?