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Soleron on 02 June 2011
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Rainbird said:
Soleron said:

There is literally nothing MS or anyone else can add to an OS to make the majority want or need to upgrade from Windows 7.

I appluad them for trying though. It won't work on tablets for the same reason all previous Windows tablets failed: desktop applications are hard to use and mobile applications are better done by smartphones.

So you're saying Windows 8 won't have good apps you can use?

Windows 8 on ARM won't have backwards compatibility, so it will need many apps to be created, and the most logical thing to do would be to create apps that run in the touch environment, and run on both ARM and x86/x64 architechtures.

And that's before we know how the WP7 apps will come into play. If Microsoft plays their cards well, they have made W8 such that those apps can be easily ported over.

No, I don't believe MS will make any serious software effort to port their own apps to an interface suitable for tablets. Including all their major products, and Windows tools. They will be functional on it but not feel as right as, say, iOS apps.

And I don't think any developers not specifically paid by MS will port their products to Windows-ARM, or port Wp7 apps to feel right on desktops or tablets beyond the just-functional automatic method MS will put in to make them run. It'll feel like running DOS or Java applets.

I think it'll be like touchscreen integration on W7: cute for some shiny tech demos, forgotten about and used by no one six months after launch.

I agree that is what they should do if they are serious.