>>They have guided interface design for nearly 30 years now.

Weren't they copying the basics of the original Mac from Xerox Parc?

I know that they revolutionized consumer products, but since the first Mac how have they influenced business computing?




>>>yea Windows 8 is so good and the Metro interface on the PC is so well received that MS fired Windows president Steven Sinofsky shortly after its release. And rightly so. Microsoft was well aware that windows 8 and the whole metro idea was receiving negative feedback on the PC as soon as they released it outside of MS. That didn’t stop them from releasing it of course, MS believes that they can push whatever garbage they want out the door and force it down the throat of consumers.
>>>Microsoft should separate the touch OS from the PC OS. At least at the user interface level.
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>>Apparently that is what the next iteration of Win8 is going to do (code name Blue IIRC).
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>>Win8 may become mainstream after that, although Microsoft's reputation will not recover. You just can't keep pushing Bobs and Vista and crap like that on consumers (unless you use Apple's marketing people).
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>Where does your abiding hatred of Apple come from? They have guided interface design for nearly 30 years now.