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With Windows 8, Microsoft's playing a scene from Groundhog Day | |
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| Time: 07:34 EST/12:34 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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I swear I can write this post over and over and over again and never run out of new material. Every bit of reporting I've read lately on Windows 8 could just as easily have been written in 2001, at the dawn of the XP era. Like a scene out of Groundhog Day, we now get to read, again, that Microsoft's death spiral has begun because PC sales have slowed down |
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| #1 By 143 (216.205.223.146) at Wednesday, December 05, 2012 10:03:40 PM |
| Minimize the damage Mr. Bott. |
| #2 By 8556 (173.29.0.102) at Saturday, December 08, 2012 02:34:13 AM |
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I have been telling customers how I like Windows 8, show them my laptop with Windows 8 Enterprise, 8-GB RAM and a 120-GB Intel SSD (all for $600). Since Windows 8 came out, the ratio of OS on our new PCs sold is 10 Windows 7 to 1 Windows 8. This is much worse than the XP to Vista ratio six years ago. I hope Microsoft comes out with an official "patch" that lets non-touchscreen uses install a Microsoft start button and SHOW IT ON TV ADS. The unintended consequences of booting all Windows 8 machines to the start screen by default has a lot of people spooked. I'd like to sell my Windows 8 licenses and not have them sitting around much longer. MS may not care as to them the sales were already made.
This post was edited by bobsireno on Sunday, December 09, 2012 at 22:28. |
| #3 By 135 (50.80.141.41) at Sunday, December 09, 2012 01:26:00 AM |
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I spent two days trying to get this running on my home desktop. After replacing swapping out nearly all the hardware, every time I try to logon the keyboard locks up. Mouse still works, but can't type.
I do have it on my laptop, and I think it has some potential but this is a bigger disaster than Vista. |
