Reply to: Windows 8.1

[suityou01]

Really? I am going to buy it today, I love orange! The entire internet should be orange and purple in my opinion.

PS Is it as orange as this?

xoggoth

One weird site. I'm hooked

[xoggoth]

Why is everything orange?

Really? I am going to buy it today, I love orange! The entire internet should be orange and purple in my opinion.

PS Is it as orange as this?

http://www.xoggoth.org/index.html

[AtW]

In choosing .NET you have made the wrong choice in technology stack for the enterprise so I will take your views on the desktop with a pinch of salt.

We shall see

P.S. The choice was made almost 10 years ago...

[minestrone]

Sure, they will follow at the right time and they won't piss off their existing customer base as well.

In choosing .NET you have made the wrong choice in technology stack for the enterprise so I will take your views on the desktop with a pinch of salt.

[AtW]

I disagree, hybrid devices that can work in different states is the future. Apple will have to follow on with some type of offering in the future.

Sure, they will follow at the right time and they won't piss off their existing customer base as well.

[minestrone]

Apple got MacOS and iOS - seems to work well for them.

It's stupid to piss off existing loyal customer base by removing things like start button, no option to default to desktop etc - they kind of fixed it in 8.1, but they did have this feedback even before release of 8.

Who is developing for desktop anyway, other than games? It's either mobile or "cloud" - in the first instance Microsoft loses to iOS/Android and in the second to Linux.

The way those jokers are running the company might make me switch to Java from .NET.

I disagree, hybrid devices that can work in different states is the future. Apple will have to follow on with some type of offering in the future.

[stek]

Bring on RE-RAM

Extreme RAM!

[AtW]

Don't think I ever seen a 128GB stick yet...

Bring on RE-RAM

[stek]

Yep but I thought memory was installed in pairs.

Don't think I ever seen a 128GB stick yet...

[suityou01]

Not really, quite common where memory is concerned.

128 + 128 + 128 = 384

For example, the upper memory area, above the 640k base memory is 384k. Not that that matters much anymore.

Yep but I thought memory was installed in pairs.

[AtW]

Converging tablet and desktop OSs was a necessary one and one that not many people predicted, admittedly it was a bit of a fook up but they will get it right in the end.

Apple got MacOS and iOS - seems to work well for them.

It's stupid to piss off existing loyal customer base by removing things like start button, no option to default to desktop etc - they kind of fixed it in 8.1, but they did have this feedback even before release of 8.

Who is developing for desktop anyway, other than games? It's either mobile or "cloud" - in the first instance Microsoft loses to iOS/Android and in the second to Linux.

The way those jokers are running the company might make me switch to Java from .NET.

[AtW]

Strange quantity.

Too small

[minestrone]

Converging tablet and desktop OSs was a necessary one and one that not many people predicted, admittedly it was a bit of a fook up but they will get it right in the end.

MS know the desktop PC is dead but they have to still offer a desktop OS somehow, I really think the surface 2 is a great device, tablet that can be configured to be a desktop and laptop. I think that general theme is the future.

[Bunk]

Strange quantity.

Not really, quite common where memory is concerned.

128 + 128 + 128 = 384

For example, the upper memory area, above the 640k base memory is 384k. Not that that matters much anymore.

[suityou01]

There are some good kernel improvements in Win 8 - most of tulipe it gets is for new GUI.

It works better with more RAM (tested myself on systems with 384 GB of RAM), SMB 3.0 (file sharing) seems flaky though.

It's useable as desktop with Classic shell that brings back proper Start button - Win 8.1 might not go far enough with that, have not tested that one yet.

Strange quantity.