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Webcast: Windows 8 Launch

I'm not too enthus about Win8 -- just because PEOPLE in general will need to be RETRAINED. Just imagine all the work IT pros have to go through to get people to get people up to speed. A lot of corporations do not even invest the time for end-users to go to any training sessions. At least Win7 is not that much different than WinXP, pretty much people don't need to get retrained.

On the home type environment -- I get it. The new features and all that is great for the home eco system -- JUST not for business/enterprise. They don't have any tools to manage your previous environment yet. I was really hoping that they would allow old GUI for business -- but no. Just dumb.
 
Wrench00 said:
Everything that Ballmer touches becomes a disaster. Its hard to screw up a monopoly but he sure is doing a good job at marginalizing Microsoft.
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Actually, if you look at the things he has been REALLY in charge of, he's been very effective at cutting the crap. Kin, Zune (as much as I love my 2 HDs), etc were put in motion before he took the helm, and he cut them when he could. As much as I liked the idea, Courier wasn't a product, and cutting it was the right thing, as cool as it was. Xbox360, Kinect and the move of the 360 into the livingroom as a media device and not just a gaming system. That's all him, as is Project Glass and the Microsoft Tribe and the Microsoft retail store. Windows 8 is really his first OS that is completely his, beginning to end. 7 Was ~2/3 his. Surface too (both of them, table and tablet).
 
Modred189 said:
Actually, if you look at the things he has been REALLY in charge of, he's been very effective at cutting the crap. Kin, Zune (as much as I love my 2 HDs), etc were put in motion before he took the helm, and he cut them when he could. As much as I liked the idea, Courier wasn't a product, and cutting it was the right thing, as cool as it was. Xbox360, Kinect and the move of the 360 into the livingroom as a media device and not just a gaming system. That's all him, as is Project Glass and the Microsoft Tribe and the Microsoft retail store. Windows 8 is really his first OS that is completely his, beginning to end. 7 Was ~2/3 his. Surface too (both of them, table and tablet).
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Microsoft has made a lot of missteps and you're right, he really has fixed a lot of things that had gotten wrong with Microsoft. I'm not his biggest fan because I think he could have done more but damn, I have to respect him at some level for taking this kind of risk with Windows 8.

I know that a lot of people are saying Microsoft isn't listening to customers. And to some extent they are right. You can't always listen to a raucous crowd and get anywhere. You have to just do it. It's been FAR to long since Microsoft has made a big bet. Maybe Windows 8 will be a losing bet but it certainly beats sitting by and letting Windows stay stuck on the desktop and die off.
 
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