Windows 8 will be Microsoft's 'riskiest product bet' • Hacker News Board

Re: Windows 8 will be Microsoft's 'riskiest product bet'

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Post by josephcooney » Sun, Oct 24, 2010, 4:05 AM UTC

Keyframe wrote: post #9

levesque wrote: post #2

Off topic: Is Steve Ballmer supposed to be a good speaker? He sounds arrogant to me.

He's a party dude at college that everybody knows. Eccentric and likable. Impulsive, yet benign (I don't want to say simple on purpose).

He's the party dude that graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a B.A. in mathematics and economics.

Re: Windows 8 will be Microsoft's 'riskiest product bet'

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 24, 2010, 11:33 AM UTC

ugh wrote: post #13

okeumeni wrote: post #3

Why Windows 8 we have barely used 7?

1985: Windows 1.0 1987: Windows 2.0 1990: Windows 3.0 (1992: Windows 3.1) 1995: Windows 95 1998: Windows 98 (2000: Windows ME) 2001: Windows XP 2006/2007: Windows Vista 2009: Windows 7 2012: Windows 8 Nothing out of the ordinary.

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Re: Windows 8 will be Microsoft's 'riskiest product bet'

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Post by jchonphoenix » Sun, Oct 24, 2010, 5:23 PM UTC

His argument that Windows is no longer a game changer seems somewhat faulty.

He claims Apple has impact because they decided not to support flash, so he is now moving Starbucks to HTML5.

But if Microsoft decided to not support HTML5, would he still be using HTML5? I personally would still hedge my bets with more people using Windows than Macs.

Re: Windows 8 will be Microsoft's 'riskiest product bet'

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Post by jeffreymcmanus » Mon, Oct 25, 2010, 12:38 AM UTC

Microsoft has never released a new version of Windows without referring to it as a "bet-the-company" release. This includes Vista. Just because they say it, doesn't mean it's true -- in fact it's probably never actually been true.

Re: Windows 8 will be Microsoft's 'riskiest product bet'

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Post by PlanetFunk » Mon, Oct 25, 2010, 3:47 AM UTC

thought_alarm wrote: post #11

I thought Scoble's take on this was actually kind of interesting. http://scobleizer.com/2010/10/22/starbucks-cio-shows-why-nex...

Slightly off-topic, but my ultimate device is something like a smart phone that can dock into different "stations" (think desktop, laptop, tablet) and utilise that stations peripherals (screen, mouse, keyboard, etc).

Ignoring the fantasy hardware, an OS that could handle that would be mind blowing.