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Microsoft Will Die!

nick123
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17 Jun 2015

I just checked out the MS Windows 10 Developer preview. It was a disaster. I know it's still not ready, but it still has the horrible "Live Tiles". I didn't like it. (I know that it still isn't finished.)

 

Windows 95, XP, and 7 were microsoft's HUGE hits. If they can't make another hit like that, I think one of these might happen:

IBM will come out of it's hiding place and continue OS/2.

BeOS Will comeback

We will all go to apple.

We will all go to Linux.

 

If Microsoft Dies, I going to Linux Mint

 

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I've used windows all my life, and I loved it, (I have about 6 commuters all running different versions of windows, and one computer running 3 version of Linux.)

I really hope MS doesn't die image

 

I have a strong feeling ms will die. And this is what killed it:

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Please let me know your thoughts in the comments.

(If MS dies I will never sleep again! Yes, I'm a Microsoft FanBoy)

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  • dougw
    dougw over 7 years ago +3
    The touch tile concept is cool and should be developed to see how useful it can get. But it is irresponsible to force Windows users to cripple their productivity for years while this development is taking…
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 7 years ago +2
    Since you have made no comment on what Windows10 actually does other than "it still has the horrible "Live Tiles"" it's not easy to tell why you think it's a disaster. Does it support the traditional …
  • DAB
    DAB over 7 years ago +2
    I had heard good things about Windows 10, but I have not run it yet. I agree, Windows 8.0 and 8.1 were not well developed. Too much betting on the tablet market they forgot about the millions of us who…
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 7 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    (Off topic)

    John Beetem,

     

    Mc68k is still attractive to produce embedded with it image

    50mW during normal operation.

    1.7mW during standby !

    http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MC68000&fpsp=1&tab=prodFeatures&site_preference=normal

     

    One of its best instructions is TAS (Test-And-Set)within 1 clock cycle. One of the best semaphore mechanism's could be implemented with it for multitasking and parallel processing in the 80ies of the previous century image

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    johnbeetem over 7 years ago in reply to nick123

    Nick Gallagher wrote:

     

    I like ubuntu, but I'd rather run Windows than anything. Do you have any opinions on MacOS?

    I liked MacOS System 6 a lot, and did a lot of programming using it.  System 7 made everything far more complex, and thus practically impossible for one person to know everything.  IMO System 7 required teams with the inevitable infighting, so Mac programming stopped being fun like it was with System 6.

     

    I've always been a big 68K fan -- it's a nice instruction set.  I really don't see the point of x86-based Macintoshes.  I never could afford a PowerPC Mac, and that's moot anyway.

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    Former Member over 7 years ago in reply to nick123

    Hello  nick123 ,

    Wasn't Classic Shell invented for your Tile problem?

    That is what I use for a few years now on Virtual win 8/8.1 (and now 10 too) test boxes on Linux and Mac hosts ;)

    http://www.classicshell.net

    Backwards compatibity of applications has always been great :)

    cheers,

    Fred

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    nick123 over 7 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    I like ubuntu, but I'd rather run Windows than anything. Do you have any opinions on MacOS?

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    johnbeetem over 7 years ago in reply to nick123

    Nick Gallagher wrote:

     

    Not MS Bob!

    BTW, What OS do you run?

    Mostly Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  I try to use what my XXICC and Flavia users will most likely be using so that I detect problems before they do.  I run Ubuntu 14.04 on my ODROID-C1.  I like 12.04 better.  I occasionally run Raspbian on RasPi and Debian on BeagleBone, but that's mostly to see if XXICC and Flavia still work on them.  Ditto for Windows 2000 and Windows 7: I fire them up at each release to make sure things still work.

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