New Windows OS May Launch by 2013

[McMarbles]

Good. Windows 8 is terrible.

 

[Baresark]

Says the man who doesn't work in the corporate IT world.

Says the man who makes sweeping generalisations based on his bad experiences.

Yes, I appreciate some companies are stuck on XP or with shonky infrastructures - only two years ago I had to do work a few of the UK NHS PCTs that refused to upgrade from Internet Explorer 6/XP due to a certain web app they used and the cost of updating just being too great.

However. If you're the type of company putting in Windows 8 now onto all your end user devices and you have a decent infrastructure then updating a yearly OS will be nothing.

And yes, I do work within the IT world and very extensively at that.

That's weird, the part where you assume my experiences are bad. They certainly are not, they are actually very good. I just understand how prohibitive the cost of a yearly OS upgrade can be and how servicing almost 15000 end users can be a problem. I also don't see the advantages to doing it as as the act of simply having the newest software most of the time does not benefit the end user. But on that note, I do see you have had some of the similar experiences, so I do apologize for my sweeping generalization. But your generalization is, at very least, equally sweeping. I think my point also comes from the angle that Microsoft is not good at fixing issues within it's OS in a timely manner. It took almost a full two years a few Microsoft created applications to be compatible with Windows 7 without jumping through a long series of hoops (I am pointing at you Zune software (my personal experience)).

 

[Matthi205]

Yay! Finally something to give people an even bigger urge to convert to Linux.

As things are going, Windows is a dying platform that gives life to newer, better ones.