>>>>>http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/06/07/the-xbox-one-might-let-sonys-ps4-win-by-default/
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>>>>>Win8 (forced interface). Win8RT (useless). Windows Phone (awful marketing), Vista (speaks for itself)... and the hits keep coming.
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>>>>>Microsoft truly is the IBM of the 80's.
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>>>>I don't buy it. People said the PS3 was going to bury the 360 (because of the blu-ray player IIRC), but they've been neck and neck in sales. MS will adjust their XBox strategy and they will succeed.
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>>>I think they will adjust the strategy, but they'll do it after rollout and any window of opportunity. Just like Win8.
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>>Win8 is great on handheld devices. If anything it's ahead of the times. A few minor adjustments and it would be great on a desktop also, but they feel the need to try to force their user's to change.
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>I do like it on my phone. Too bad most people have never seen it.
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>Forcing users to change - that is the killer. They have been trying that since Vista and refuse to learn the lesson.
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>I've been a Microsoft fan for decades, but I'm working hard to jump ship at this point.

For a change, wholeheartly agree with you. I've been working on Win8 for a couple of months now, but really do not understand why they want scare away the enterprise users. I'm still trying to figure out why they've put away the startbutton. without it I'm just totally lost. the search feature is fine as long as you know what you are searching for and remember the right word in the language you are working in. But more often than not, it takes me way more time to find anything than through the start menu. (you guess I've install a 3rd party start button)

Then when I try to open a PDF, ICON or other graphical file, it brings me into the metro environment where again, I'm totally lost and can't do anything with it. What the F**k were they thinking? I can see that for certain customers it is nice to dumb down the windows interface (hiding complexity), but for the experienced user who earning his money with the windows environment, this is an absolute nightmare.

I do have a dual monitor setup with HD screens. Do they really think that its easier for advanced users to use touchscreens? come on, that is nuts...