but then again, I remember how Windows 3 was bagged by the msdos lovers
It was a cumbersome buggy POS incapable of properly manageing even 640K of RAM
how XP was bagged when it came out
It was Win2K with the introduction of flawed 2nd guessing
how Vista was bagged and Windows 7 ended up with the same engine.
Vista was a flawed nasty piece of crap. Win7 the clever name for the immediately required point one release
It is a brilliant move making the Windows GUI and tablet GUI's the same
why? Dumb the UI down to take the least advantage of machines with some decent interface device. IE: a keyboard.
as the old style Windows just cannot work on a tablet.
Neither can Microsoft's laughable attempt at a windows phone
Windows 8 phone will also have the same interface feel.
Nausea?
Notebooks hardware will change, and I imagine Linux will make use of the touch screens before long as well.
Doesn't Android already do that?
Whatever we think about it, Windows 8 will change computers.
Yeah it will obsolete a metric shitload of otherwise usable hardware as zombie clickers and other dreamers race up the next new thing cul-de-sac.
I find it hard to find the "Bring Back MSDOS" people now. The current GUI will go the same way.
It's not so much bring back DOS as bring back some of it's better aspect. Touch screen pads don't replace notebooks although they may be fine for
porn surfing research the are hardly work horses. It's moronic to dumb a UI down to match it's lowest possible entry point. A $50 Android box for TV has merit, a OS that hides everything useful behind a labyrinth of clicks is idiotic.
Sure they'll sell boxes and no doubt force Dell etc to sell the latest MS crud preloaded but none of it will stem the already happening MS demise.
The one good thing from all this is a release as ill conceived as W8, may well stem the perceived idea that desktop Linux distros should emulate Windows.
MS got it right with DOS, W95 and NT at the times of their release, its been so long since they pumped out a winner, I doubt they'll ever do it again.