Comments on: The Windows You Love is Gone http://mrpogson.com/2012/10/26/the-windows-you-love-is-gone/ One man, closing all the windows. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: oe http://mrpogson.com/2012/10/26/the-windows-you-love-is-gone/#comment-101065 oe Sat, 27 Oct 2012 03:26:25 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=15315#comment-101065 Soon they want this robot/brown circle/pudgy penguin thingie on their desktops…..

]]> By: Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/2012/10/26/the-windows-you-love-is-gone/#comment-101048 Robert Pogson Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:18:43 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=15315#comment-101048 Cute: “Windows 8 will likely dis-enfranchise millions from the Microsoft treadmill of desktop dominance updates of the past two decades.”

Amen! Thanks, Steve! Vista was a toe-in-the-door when millions got to see GNU/Linux work for them on Vista-incapable hardware. Now we have “8″ which is so lame, people will ask, “Where are the windows?”. 2012 has been an interesting year: we had a serious drought but the garden pulled through, GNU/Linux and FLOSS became more popular in European governments, Dell is shipping Ubuntu GNU/Linux again, as are all major OEMs and now M$ is telling people XP and “7″ are obsolete junk. Chuckle. People who buy new will buy an ARMed tablet with Android/linux or a smartphone with Android/Linux or a PC with GNU/Linux and a more familiar interface…

]]> By: dougman http://mrpogson.com/2012/10/26/the-windows-you-love-is-gone/#comment-101045 dougman Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:17:12 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=15315#comment-101045 I was in Bestbuy yesterday, saw no lines or mobs of people at the doors, the atmosphere was basically ho-hum.

Played with “8″ for a few minutes and considered it the most confusing GUI that I have ever used, this will not bode well for M$ at all.

Even IE was confusing to use, I can see people seriously disliking the interface in short order and M$ will just blame noob users like always.1

]]> By: eug http://mrpogson.com/2012/10/26/the-windows-you-love-is-gone/#comment-101043 eug Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:52:05 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=15315#comment-101043 Dear Microsoft, Thanks for Windows 8! Love Linux

http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/dear-microsoft-thanks-for-windows-8-love-linux.html

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