fordy on 25 February 2013
| kain_kusanagi said: MS rarely is the first out of the gate. They like to innovate on what's been done. Sometimes that means they are late, but in the long run they usually come out on top. Windows 8 is the mobile OS that the other mobile OS's promised they would be and never lived up to it. Windows 8's app store is both a competitor to Steam and Apple/Android's app stores. As for Xbox. MS has been upfront from the beginning that the Xbox was put on the market to stop Sony from taking over the living room. It worked. |
That's all well and good, but I really wish that Microsoft specialised the mobile OS experience, rather than trying to make a Windows version "take a bite out of everything". I might sound like an old fogey, but I'm a bit concerned about this alienating path Microsoft is taking that makes the desktop experience seem....weird, just for the sake of mobile device compatibility....
As for the Windows 8 store, that really should have had an implementation by Windows Vista, or ideally, one of the XP service packs...their PC dominance as well as their influence to add it to their own OS, developers would be falling over each other to have had the chance to market their software on it...
