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Originally Posted by taustin
They're not doing well now. ZDNet, who have traditionally be hard core Microsoft fanboys, have pronounced Windows is dead |
Typical of overstated tech journalism. Everything is either the best of the best or worst of the worst.
Windows can't be dead because of the enormous business investment in custom software, often tied to Microsoft Office, that would take a decade or two to reproduce (same time it took to produce). The true death of Windows would be what the chicken littles said that Y2K would be.
I'm posting from Linux. For the last 45 minutes, I've been trying to figure out how to upgrade from OpenSUSE 12.2 to 12.3. To make a long story short, the process is making me feel like an idiot. Except that -- I know I'm not the only one struggling, as some advise wiping your old system and starting over! So I'm about ready to give up. Putting on a Microsoft service pack -- or customizing Windows 8 to hide new interface features -- is, by comparison, quite easy.
As an in-house business software developer, I can see why independent software developers wouldn't like Windows 8. You don't know which interface to program for. Me, I know to program for the old one.
The greater precision of the mouse over the touch screen makes it superior. Microsoft is a big company, but they aren't big enough to overturn that reality. It's true that touch is growing, but the mouse GUI is going to remain big for a long time. Apple is too expensive, Linux requires too much user smarts, and Microsoft is far from death.