PheonixChameleon
Gawd
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We don't need windows 8 for that..We need Windows Mobile (basically all win 8 is now) for that. Win 8 should be an advancement of Win 7 specifically designed for the desktop/laptop non touch interface experience. As I have said numerous times, not even Apple (with all their integration) is dumb enough to try and use the same OS on their iPhone that they do on a Mac Pro. It is a terrible concept and the fact that MS is pushing it is just sad.
Thank god someone pointed this out.
If Apple, who is seemingly the leader in selling mobile hardware, doesn't intend to throw their desktop and mobile software into a blender... why should Microsoft? Apple's business model of seperating the two systems works fine for them; Why isn't Microsoft seperating Zune/ WinPhone/ WinMo (whatever name they want to unify their mobile OS under) and it's Windows (it's desktop software)?
I don't need or want Metro UI to be the default on my desktop when I, like everyone else that's ever used a windows computer, already know how to use the windows interface.. no need to change it. This feels like WinPhone 8 is being forced on the desktop.. it's unnecessary and I believe will be confusing for a lot of customers that don't own a Windows mobile device but have gotten used to the Windows system (especially the elderly).
Furthermore, the problem with Windows on the mobile market isn't so much the OS persay, as the lack of devices. How many Windows phones are offered by the major carriers in the U.S. 1.. maybe 2 per carrier. And those 1 or 2 are instantly obscured by the iPhone war with the Android army. They publicity and marketing isn't in place for Windows phone to outpace either of it's competitors as things stand and it doesn't help that I can choose 1 windows phone, or a dozen Androids. If they're not going to go the Android route and produce several handsets.. and they refuse to do the Apple route of marketing the hell out of their handsets, then they've got no business model to get competitive in the mobile arena. Making their desktop OS unified with their mobile OS isn't going to be a tremendous help as I don't see a tremendous number of people correlating a desktop OS to a mobile phone.
(SIDE RANT)
I don't understand this percieved craze for tablets.. Are people buying more of them than desktops? Yes. Does most everyone still have a desktop? Yes. Tablets are outselling desktops because they're a new platform that people don't already own.
I'm not the only person in the world by any means, but my only desktop machine is a 2004 era HP. I don't have a tablet, nor do I really want one. Until my HP died a week or so ago I had no need for a new device. That ancient machine with it's whopping 256MB of ram was good enough to handle my general purposes (web surfing, downloading files, burning CDs and DVDs, viewing pictures, document editting, etc. etc.).. I'm not a huge gamer and I don't do hardcore photo/ video editting. I'm a fairly normal joe as far as computer needs in my opinion.
The rest of my family are fairly average Joes as far as computer needs go. The newest desktop computer we have? A 2005 era Sony my mother just recently started having issues with. And that's why the desktop market is dying.. because once you own one, most people don't feel like getting a new one if the old one works fine for their needs. Most people don't feel the need to be [H]ard. I'd love to be, but can't justify it on the budget, so until this past summer (2011) I faithfully ran that HP as my only computer. I picked up a newer lappy for various reasons, and while I love it, don't find it to be a replacement for a desktop machine.