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Originally Posted by GanjaSMK 
1. Pretty sure that MS has done their research and weighed the options. Pretty sure the weight fell on the side of not including at 15+ year old menu style.
2. Pretty sure that the future is moving towards touch-based and gesture-based devices (among those already available), regardless of whether or not the tech world believes the future to do with or without a mouse or a keyboard, and that those devices will be 'synced' with cloud-based (and deployed) infrastructure, development, and services.
Now, to further disperse your baseless claims lets assume that:
*MS is well aware of the licensing options that have only very recently turned over from XP deployed systems to Windows 7.
*MS is well aware of the 'niche' of people (including yourself in the extreme end) who don't care for the new interface.
*MS has better research options available to discern what will and won't move and in what direction, far better and far over reaching than your own research capabilities.
*MS doesn't give a rats rear about your opinion.
*MS will still make plenty of money in other licensing ventures, perhaps even more so with a bigger entrance into the OEM space with 'Surface' tablets, and still remains the industry leader in terms of OS space/market share.
You're on the edge man, grab a rope because you might fall over.
1. Pretty sure that MS has done their research and weighed the options. Pretty sure the weight fell on the side of not including at 15+ year old menu style.
2. Pretty sure that the future is moving towards touch-based and gesture-based devices (among those already available), regardless of whether or not the tech world believes the future to do with or without a mouse or a keyboard, and that those devices will be 'synced' with cloud-based (and deployed) infrastructure, development, and services.
Now, to further disperse your baseless claims lets assume that:
*MS is well aware of the licensing options that have only very recently turned over from XP deployed systems to Windows 7.
*MS is well aware of the 'niche' of people (including yourself in the extreme end) who don't care for the new interface.
*MS has better research options available to discern what will and won't move and in what direction, far better and far over reaching than your own research capabilities.
*MS doesn't give a rats rear about your opinion.
*MS will still make plenty of money in other licensing ventures, perhaps even more so with a bigger entrance into the OEM space with 'Surface' tablets, and still remains the industry leader in terms of OS space/market share.
You're on the edge man, grab a rope because you might fall over.
Yeah, no on the "niche" part. No-one I've spoken to outside OCN, online and off, likes Windows 8. My University have no intentions of upgrading to it. All of the Computing staff dislike it and won't be using it. WE almost weren't going to be using VS 2012 because of the Metro apps forcing.
As for researching and being totally clued up? Two words, one name: Steve Ballmer.
Now, Win8 for MS Surface/Tablets is going to be great. You're going to have this tablet interface that easily switches to a desktop when need be. But for Desktop, they've alienated a lot of people.
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