i tried windows 8 like 6 months ago and gave up on it because it wasn't ready, i have 3 friends with it now and they seem to like it but are always being annoyed about something or rather so idk if ill switch i might just wait until they stop supporting windows 7
To me it looks like Microsoft got tired of getting picked on for shoving a desktop OS onto phones. So instead, they now shove a phone OS onto desktops.
The most positive praise I've seen seems to think Microsoft has a vision where the computer is more an appliance like phones and stuff. The thing is, in that case the OS doesn't really matter... users don't care what operating system their blu-ray player has, for example, as long as it runs blu-ray disks, connects to the web, etc..
Content is the new market. Apple saw this which is why iTunes, app store, etc.. And Amazon releasing a tablet was so obviously a good idea that the universe would have imploded if they hadn't done it. My Kindle Fire could not be a more convenient device to use... it's like a two way street giving me content and sucking cash directly from my wallet... and it's all good either way. In four or five years, if you don't control a content stream then you are a bit player just supplying things to the big guys. I think even Apple might be heading to a point where the fact that they produce a phone is only ancillary. They fight commoditization at every turn but it's kind of inevitable. The more pure the content delivery endpoint gets the less the user cares about what particular brand of underlying thing it's running. "Does it have Angry Birds?!?!" "What button do I push for Netflix?" etc.
Hey, I took an Unn thread off topic.