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0 pointsasveikau9y ago0 comments

It would mean they would have to admit that Windows is not an iPhone or an iPad, that they shouldn't blindly copy what that other fruit-themed vendor has been doing, that maybe people own their computers (not the platform vendor) and want to use them. Failure to acknowledge this is why 8/RT failed and they are trying to repeat it edging just a bit closer towards sane but it's pretty disappointing that they won't go the whole way.

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alkonaut9y ago

I think they are trying to make the legacy desktop a professional and enterprise one, because there is no money selling operating systems to consumers.

If they can get the huge chunk of people who are using their computers without an enterprise domain, and without heavy workstation apps (basically just doing internet/docs/games) to use a cheap and safe iOS-style windows, then they can at least start getting 30% cut of the app sales from all those people.

I'm not too worried about that as long as there is a proper windows for professionals. In the above scenario they could start charging more of a premium than they do today for the legacy windows desktop because there would be no consumer version of it.

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