It's mostly in the can, says the man.
You can read the latest scuttlebutt right here!
The wags and home-grown 'experts' (an expert being anyone more than 10 miles from home) are as usual predicting alternatively 'game-changing new improvements' and 'an end-of-the-world scenario' for the future of Mighty Microsoft, and again as usual, most of them don't know enough to come in out of the rain, but they deserve honorable mention for their creative writing.
The truth is that nobody knows for sure whether Windows 8 and its heavily touch-oriented format can either save the company from oblivion or capture market share from Apple. Time will tell, and time marches on, trampling everything underfoot. But in about five weeks, we will have a look at most of the Windows 8 finished product, we are being told.
Pardon me while I yawn. Like some of us have already discovered, Windows 8 isn't the cure-all it's cracked up to be for us traditional PC users of the mouse and keyboard variety - which includes the vast majority of business clients and enterprise users. No matter how much fun a touch system might be to use while 'letting your fingers do the walking' there's still going to be a whole lot of real work on your computer that requires a keyboard and mouse to do properly and
conveniently and quickly, without expecting you to become a contortionist or
learn Braille or the Kamasutra.
That being the case, the vast majority of us will likely find Windows 8 to be a
less-user-friendly version of Windows 7, which does it faster, easier, and better,
without introducing three steps where one was before. It took ten million of us nagging the hell out of Microsoft to get them to clean up Vasta Vista into Windows 7, and now they've reverted to complexifying the damned thing again because they can't remember the old acronym KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Think of Windows 8 as being Windows 7, Service Pack 2. And let's start thinking about Windows 9, shall we?
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