It ain’t broke, and they don’t want to “fix” it.

One of the biggest problems for corporate/institutional users isn’t so much the cost of hardware/software, but the cost of training and the time it takes to become comfortable and familiar to use. With Win 8, this is quite high. There is also the cost of migration of software/hardware to a new OS especially those developed in-house. many companies were bitten hard with this with Vista/Win 7, and have no desire to repeat it. There is a good reason that the early Win 7 quickly had the ‘XP Compatibility Mode’ (which is simply XP running on M$ Virtual PC). Some of the biggest companies (such as mining for eg.) still use DOS or even in 3.11! The software many use or created in-house works fine on this and they see no reason to waste money just because the newer OS’s look pretty! LOL Of course, these are mainly in the field and their Admin systems usually do run Win. 😉

M$ never learn. This is a good thing. And hopefully, one day, people will wake up. We can but hope! 😉 😀

I have wasted a lot of time waiting for the comm lines to come back up to check out at stores, and it is seriously annoying. If you have a major portion of your work dependent on something on the ‘Net and you link goes down, you are paying people to sit around and do nothing.

The majority of people don’t like or trust change, so making obvious changes to the way things look or work always meets with resistance, even when it will make life easier for them in the long term. People generally want tomorrow to be just like today, so they know what to expect.

Windows 7 / Win2k8r2 are the new Windows XP. Corporate America is going to stick with these for as long as they can, because Windows 8 is just impossible.

No M$ OS is a stable beta release until after service pack 1.

When I bought Win7 for the new machine they offered me a coupon for 8 – I told them no thanks.

The reason so many organizations are still using XP is because of the disaster that was Vista which terrified a lot of system admins when they tested it. People are no longer automatically updating because of that mess and the generally sucky business environment.

The same things that made that huge pile of cash possible are killing the long term survival of the corporation. You need the institutional memory and skills to keep going. When you attempt to maximized profits for the short term you kill long term growth.

All our development efforts right now are aimed at Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008R2, but we have to make sure they work on Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 also. Thus why I was installing a Windows 8 virtual machine. It works in Parallels, which sells Microsoft OS’s to Mac users, so I think Microsoft had to explicitly break the Oracle Virtualbox virtualization between the prerelease and the RTM. But I’m going to stick with Windows 7 as long as I can, because Windows 8 is just a big stinking mess.

I have set the Win version to list details repeatedly but it never seems to hold more than a few days.

Oh, yeah, Windows without unlimited resources – that will really work … never. They are probably plotting a thin client for the device, and then having it work though an on-line system – another 3270 emulator in the making.

They are going to have to bribe someone to try it; I don’t see any other way given their history. Make them pay for it up front rather than creating something and having them ‘adopt’ it.

Actually, TC represents one of the first Win anti-competitive attacks on a 3rd party product that the Dweeb was afraid of. It used to be called Windows Commander, but the Dweebs grey suit brigade tried to force Ghisler to stop using that name, even though in fact, he had been using ‘Windows Commander’ before M$ had even developed Windows 1. Though he would most likely have won his case, he simply couldn’t afford the expense of a legal battle. And M$ always count on that. Still, I think Total Commander is a better name anyway! 😀

The only reason for Win 8 is to make mostly young (naive) people believe it’s all new and exciting and *cool*. The fact that it also pisses off mainstream users doesn’t matter, what are we going to do about it? As badtux says, for the most part, we have little choice. M$ wants to ensure that lock as many people in as possible. Their sales have been dropping, and they know it! (Amusingly, this is primarily thanks to Android, which is based on linux, and iOS. Hence the focus of Win 8 on mobile/embedded devices. I suspect the desktop variants were almost afterthoughts). Hopefully, the mobile/embedded industry will see it for the garbage it is and stay away!

My version of Win 7 Professional, which is almost identical in appearance to XP is stable, but is getting updates every other day. If they hadn’t screwed up the file manager I wouldn’t care, but that’s a real pain when I have to use it. Wordpad is also worse, as is has delusions of Word and keeps trying to format straight text.

I guess the days when the purpose of the OS was to support the applications has gone. Part of the problem may be that certain parts of the API were too similar to the standards used in various flavors of Unix. They would have to be as they are all running on the same basic hardware, so M$ is inserting crap to make code re-use even harder.

If I had my choice, I’d give both index fingers up for Microsoft. Alas, 99% of our customers are running Windows on their desktop (and the other 1% are running Macs). Siiiiiigh.