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Windows 8 - Yea or Nay?
LTK:
You mean 1984, and time will tell.
snalin:
MS are probably looking at the rising competition from those Apple folks, and going "huh, they're getting a bigger and bigger piece of the market, and their platform is crazy closed! Now, since causation implies correlation, we should also close down our platform to not lose a bigger part of the market!"
W7 it is for me.
JonathanXS:
--- Quote from: Bluesummers on 29 Oct 2012, 11:56 ---That is...downright frightening. Does Microsoft really fear the threat of competition that much, that they would intentionally go Brave New World on us with Win8?
--- End quote ---
If they did, it would sound more like a suicide threat from the result of nearly every windows developer revolting at the notion.
Blyss:
The initial proposal for things that Vista would do was damned frightening. If you didn't remove or replace a driver correctly, your PC went away. For good.
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: LTK on 29 Oct 2012, 12:41 ---You mean 1984, and time will tell.
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Well, Orwell was mentored by Huxley, and I'm more familiar with literary works by the latter...but yeah, 1984 is a closer match. Hopefully Microsoft will realize that they can't play Big Brother is a world that's still fiercely capitalistic, and will fix these control issue before everyone jumps ship to Ubuntu or something.
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