Microsoft unveils its new Windows 8 operating system (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Microsoft has taken the wraps off the next generation of its Windows operating system.

Windows 8 is designed to run on tablet computers, as well as desktop and laptop PCs.

The software, which is due to be released in 2012 will work on the popular ARM-designed low power processors for the first time.

Microsoft has been under pressure to come up with an answer to Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms.

Unveiling Windows 8 at the Build developers' conference in California, Windows division president Steven Sinofsky declared: "We re-imagined Windows. From the chipset to the user experience."
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14908568





Well, this affects me because my employers have always been Microsoft-obsequious -- otherwise, I wouldn't care.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. I still like my XP

No upgrades for me.

[Warpy]

7. I have a Win 7 laptop

but found I needed to keep an XP box going to run a lot of my financial software. I have two reconditioned boxes I alternate between when one of them conks out and needs to be fixed. I will keep them going as long as possible.

Win7 has glitzy kiddie eye candy features I find supremely annoying and few adjustments for the sight handicapped. It's also incredible bloatware. To say I'm unhappy with the changes it brought is a vast understatement.

XP remains the best of the bunch.

[Drale]

2. I'll stay with Windows 7 thank you. /nt

[quinnox]

3. Screw that!

Jesus, Win 7 seems like it just came out and now Win 8? Getting a bit greedy Microsoft? When is Win 9 coming out, sometime next year? Fuck that!

[Xithras]

4. WIndows 8 isn't "coming out" yet.

This is an early developer preview, so that software developers can start testing and developing their applications for it. The media is making a big deal out of it simply because this is the first chance that people outside of MS have had to put their hands on it.

Windows 8 won't actually be released until late 2012, more than a year from now and three years after the release of Windows 7.

[quinnox]

6. I see

thanks for the update, now it makes more sense.

[area51]

5. Windows must d#e.

:evilgrin:

[frebrd]

8. Yawn!

:shrug:

:boring: