The Windows 8 and other failed Microsoft products thread - Windows 8 "relaunches" Feb

[Kornman00]

I like Ubuntu 12.04. I put it on my mom's laptop because she was always being pestered to update this and that using Windows 7. I was afraid she might break something soon so I gave her a safe linux environment to check her email lol.

So Linux automatically installs all updates without user interaction...?

Windows can automatically download and install updates, could have just set up her settings correctly.

[Cortexian]

All the decent Linux desktop distros emulate the Windows GUI almost exactly. Yet Microsoft wants to ditch it for Metro.

Someone at Microsoft should really be sounding alarm bells.

[Amit]

So Linux automatically installs all updates without user interaction...?

Windows can automatically download and install updates, could have just set up her settings correctly.

Pff, I already know that. I'm talking about all the software for drivers and other shit I have to install. Ubuntu doesn't let apps pester you for updates like some programs do on Windows and OS X.

[JackalStomper]

Microsoft announces their vision of the ideal platform for windows 8
http://www.techpowerup.com/167910/Mi...r-Windows.html

[ThePlague]

:facepalm:

[Warsaw]

I actually suspect they are trying to kill off the PC as we know it.

UEFI was implemented on motherboards not only because it can do things that BIOS is currently unable to, but also because it can lock out operating systems. Apple has been using EFI for a long time now to do just that.

Now they make this Surface thing.

Before you know it, we'll have Windows boxes that meet a particular price/performance point. The Xbox will cease to exist, its function becoming superfluous with these fixed-hardware solutions.

What a nightmare.

[Timo]

welp, I thought it was pretty damn cool.

[Amit]

welp, I thought it was pretty damn cool.

You shall burn with the rest!

[Warsaw]

I actually like their tablet, I just don't fancy the possibility of hardware being completely controlled by the manufacturers. I like building computers.

[Kornman00]

welp, I thought it was pretty damn cool.

same

Now give me some details like battery life, user prefs, dev restrictions, etc