Windows 8 OS,Tablet, New Win 8 PCs News Thread

[John Kotches]

As time passes, it seems more and more vendors are speaking out with slow rates of adoption of Win 8.

Lenovo is the latest and indicates most laptops are "downgraded" to Windows 7 in advance for the Corporate market.

The Channel Register article.

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[Poke]

These are some nice devices.

Samsung Windows 8 ATIV Smart PC Pro with AT&T LTE launches


http://www.neowin.net/news/samsung-windows-8-ativ-smart-pc-pro-with-att-lte-launches

 

[Poke]

Spotify previews new Windows app, bringing its web interface to the desktop

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4148796/spotify-tests-new-windows-app-web-player-interface

 

[Poke]

Microsoft builds a 120-inch, 4K TV

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-builds-a-120-inch-4k-tv

 

[John Kotches]

Microsoft builds a 120-inch, 4K TV

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-builds-a-120-inch-4k-tv

Great... Now they can screw up TVs too ;-)

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[harshness]

Great... Now they can screw up TVs too ;-)

Their foray into car systems (Sync) went so swimmingly well.

 

[Poke]

Some cool features they will be adding.

Windows Blue to sync Start Screen settings and paired devices between PCs

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/27/4154410/windows-blue-start-screen-paired-devices-sync-settings

 

[Poke]

Their foray into car systems (Sync) went so swimmingly well.

Yeah its working real well for them.

 

[Poke]

Great... Now they can screw up TVs too ;-)

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Yeah lets hope not but I'm sure they will be fine.

 

[Neutron]

Great... Now they can screw up TVs too ;-)

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Just wait until your TV Blue Screen's on you.

 

[mperdue]

Just wait until your TV Blue Screen's on you.

But with a 4K TV the Blue Screen of Death will really look good.

 

[John Kotches]

Some cool features they will be adding.

Windows Blue to sync Start Screen settings and paired devices between PCs

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/27/4154410/windows-blue-start-screen-paired-devices-sync-settings

Less than a year, and the UI is getting an overhaul. There's only 1 reason for that.

 

[meStevo]

What specifically about those changes qualify as an overhaul?

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[John Kotches]

Read the article. If you prefer to call it a significant tweak, fine.

This is not a good sign IMO.



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[meStevo]

I've read about the changes, we've known Blue was coming around this time since before 8 shipped. They're clearly iterating, if anything I'm disappointed they aren't doing more.

Overhaul is quite a reach is all, and their intention is to more frequently update the OS.

So now that you've backed off of overhaul, what specifically is a bad sign?

Or are you suggesting they never touch the OS again outside of security packs and releasing 9?

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[John Kotches]

I've read about the changes, we've known Blue was coming around this time since before 8 shipped. They're clearly iterating, if anything I'm disappointed they aren't doing more.

Overhaul is quite a reach is all, and their intention is to more frequently update the OS.

So now that you've backed off of overhaul, what specifically is a bad sign?

Or are you suggesting they never touch the OS again outside of security packs and releasing 9?

There's nothing wrong with an iterative approach, but this is very fast for UI changes, which tells me something amiss.

Multiple vendors (Samsung and Lenovo) have indicated that Win 8 sales are lukewarm at best, and they've dropped the wholesale price earlier than ever on the product.

These all point to a problem in Redmond.



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[Poke]

Microsoft allows Windows 8 to run on smaller displays: is a reader-sized Surface on its way?

http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/29/microsoft-relaxes-windows-8-resolution-rule/

 

[meStevo]

There's nothing wrong with an iterative approach, but this is very fast for UI changes, which tells me something amiss.

Multiple vendors (Samsung and Lenovo) have indicated that Win 8 sales are lukewarm at best, and they've dropped the wholesale price earlier than ever on the product.

These all point to a problem in Redmond.



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So again, you're saying they shouldn't have touched the UI in the update we've known was coming since before it was released? And again this is very iterative, they're not backing off (or overhauling) anything, they're making multitasking better and adding options that previously you had to go into desktop mode or had to change via less efficient means.

How does this signal trouble exactly?

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[John Kotches]

So again, you're saying they shouldn't have touched the UI in the update we've known was coming since before it was released? And again this is very iterative, they're not backing off (or overhauling) anything, they're making multitasking better and adding options that previously you had to go into desktop mode or had to change via less efficient means.

How does this signal trouble exactly?

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Clearly you think that I'm part of "we" even though when I'm not.

1) Windows 8 has been underwhelming in the marketplace.
Reinforcement: OEM License costs have been lowered by 75% in an attempt to spur adoption.
Reinforcement: Two major vendors (Samsung and Lenovo) have spoken publicly about the lack of market interest for Windows 8.

2) WinPhone isn't gaining traction.
Reinforcement: The marketshare dial hasn't moved for WinPhone sales.

3) Windows RT has suffered from very poor adoption rates.
Reinforcement: One of the big tech monitoring firms indicates sales of less than 400K despite builds of 1M+ Units. I'm sorry, I don't have the link handy.

That's why I see trouble.






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[meStevo]

And yet the "overhaul" isn't one of your bullet points. Imagine that, nice backpedal. Even I think this is a disappointing update but you are trying so hard to spike the football on every possible bad piece of information it's just getting silly.

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