mike_intellivision said:
After all, this is the every other version of Windows. The big users/orders will force Microsoft to continue to support 7 -- just like what happened with XP. Or Microsoft will have to come up with plug-ins rather quickly before people will adopt. (Personally, I think the tiled approach will not go over well with business.) Mike from Morgantown |
And even if MS didn't things wrong every other version, most businesses and a large number of individuals too would stick to every other version of Windows, because they want a longer life cycle than what Microsoft would like to impose them, and a longer period of platform stability. The fact that normally even a good Windows version really becomes as good as Microsoft promised after a few years and Service Packs (it happened with Win2000 and WinXP, and even if Win7 was a lot faster to reach the desired reliability, it's still a new experience for Windows users, and they don't feel they can trust MS for this becoming the norm yet) doesn't really help the crippled versions to go beyond what they can reach with the preinstalled copies. BTW XP reached its best shape and was accepted very slowly before becoming MS' greatest success, with over 1B copies, while Win 7, being very good almost since the start, following one of the worst Windows versions ever, and arriving on a market that despite slowly than in the past, still grew a lot, will probably reach an even larger installed base, so the resistance to Win 8 adoption will be even stronger.
And all this if it won't happen the worst for MS, non-Wintel platforms-derived PCs that start superseding old Wintel ones, chewing MS' monopoly from outside.
