Reply to: Microsoft to stop producing Windows version

[d000hg]

Office on tablets is probably some tiny % of home office sales?

[SimonMac]

Is it? I thought MS were selling 1-year bundles with new PCs or people were buying the regular version.

The only real way to get Office on tablets is through a subscription

[d000hg]

Seems to be working for Office365

Is it? I thought MS were selling 1-year bundles with new PCs or people were buying the regular version.

[sal]

Windows vs Apple vs Unix etc is not about relative performance, they are religious beliefs.

Amen

[xoggoth]

You have to be a merkin to argue that one is better than the other

Windows vs Apple vs Unix etc is not about relative performance, they are religious beliefs.

[SimonMac]

Regular home users aren't tech-savvy enough to deal with a subscription model for OS in my view.

Seems to be working for Office365

[d000hg]

Regular home users aren't tech-savvy enough to deal with a subscription model for OS in my view.

[Scrag Meister]

When Microsoft do bring out the surface phone and you can slot that into a docking station to be used as a desktop that is the ultimate game changer.

Will you be able to play games in UHD on it too.

Yay, looking forward to it already.

[minestrone]

There is hardly any difference in them, you start it up, you choose the program you want to run and run it. I don't spend any time whatsoever using the OS really and most major applications will run just as fast on each one.

You have to be a merkin to argue that one is better than the other.

Apple's build quality was far in advance of anything MS could offer for a long time but Samsung matched them eventually and the rest have caught up, the surface is a fantastic product.

But, office is by far and away the better business product suite and if you want to buy into the full shebang like I have the xbox/phone/surface/desktop/office365 then MS is the better overall offering I think.

But that is just me.

[Boo]

I guess you haven't used Windows 8.

I've used W8.1 which is fine. It definitely benefits from the use of Classic Shell though, wouldn't want to use it bare. A recent contract this year landed me a client notebook with WS8.1 installed, after a rapid download of CS I was good to go with no problems. I'd far sooner have a client give me W8.1 than P.O.S.OS on a machine.

Boo

[Unix]

Fact : OSX is in no way superior to Windows.

The command line in P.O.S.OS is a hopeless anachronism and the only reason for relying on it is the various GUI implementations for P.O.S.OS are so poor people give up on using them.

If you have to use a command line than Windows PowerShell ISE is ten times better than Bash being hugely modernised over that excressence.

Virtual desktops are a nightmare on OSX with new windows appearing in seemingly random desktops, inadequate navigation between desktops and hopeless ditto between windows in different desktops. I defy any normal person to use multiple desktops for 2 weeks before turning them back off. Certainly I did that. The day Windows implements multiple desktops without an off switch is the day I stop defending them in public.

To repeat : Neither OSX nor any other version of P.O.S.OS is in any way better than Windows and the UI for these hateful and appalling OS's is very much worse.

Boo

I guess you haven't used Windows 8.

[stek]

Fact : OSX is in no way superior to Windows.

The command line in P.O.S.OS is a hopeless anachronism and the only reason for relying on it is the various GUI implementations for P.O.S.OS are so poor people give up on using them.

If you have to use a command line than Windows PowerShell ISE is ten times better than Bash being hugely modernised over that excressence.

Virtual desktops are a nightmare on OSX with new windows appearing in seemingly random desktops, inadequate navigation between desktops and hopeless ditto between windows in different desktops. I defy any normal person to use multiple desktops for 2 weeks before turning them back off. Certainly I did that. The day Windows implements multiple desktops without an off switch is the day I stop defending them in public.

To repeat : Neither OSX nor any other version of P.O.S.OS is in any way better than Windows and the UI for these hateful and appalling OS's is very much worse.

Boo

Lol!!!

[Boo]

Lol!!!

One simple example is the terminal, the Windows CMD is atrocious. Then there is things like full screen, virtual desktops etc. Windows should have implemented this decades ago.

Fact : OSX is in no way superior to Windows.

The command line in P.O.S.OS is a hopeless anachronism and the only reason for relying on it is the various GUI implementations for P.O.S.OS are so poor people give up on using them.

If you have to use a command line than Windows PowerShell ISE is ten times better than Bash being hugely modernised over that excressence.

Virtual desktops are a nightmare on OSX with new windows appearing in seemingly random desktops, inadequate navigation between desktops and hopeless ditto between windows in different desktops. I defy any normal person to use multiple desktops for 2 weeks before turning them back off. Certainly I did that. The day Windows implements multiple desktops without an off switch is the day I stop defending them in public.

To repeat : Neither OSX nor any other version of P.O.S.OS is in any way better than Windows and the UI for these hateful and appalling OS's is very much worse.

Boo

[Unix]

OSX is in no way superior to Windows.

Boo

One simple example is the terminal, the Windows CMD is atrocious. Then there is things like full screen, virtual desktops etc. Windows should have implemented this decades ago.

[Sysman]

OSX is in no way superior to Windows.

Boo