Is there a firm ETA on 64 bit?

[m48tx]

Tried a Windows 8 build one month ago. It lasted longer than my first install of GNOME 3.0 but it didn't live long enough to see the end of the day.

I successfully managed to dodge Vista by sticking to XP. I think my Windows 7 install will be with me for some years to come too.

Agreed. I installed Win8 consumer preview and it took less than 1 hour to figure out it was not for me. Win7 will last me until MS corrects its foolishness. As for GNOME 3.0 ... where were the adults?

As for XYplorer ... an indispensable tool.

[admin]

1. Systems for power users and people who have to do complex work (spreadsheets, creating media content etc.), typically mouse and keyboard driven by people sitting at a desk -"the digital working class".

So do you think there will ever be a new Windows for this group? Or is Win7 the end?

[FeatureCreep]

1. Systems for power users and people who have to do complex work (spreadsheets, creating media content etc.), typically mouse and keyboard driven by people sitting at a desk -"the digital working class".

So do you think there will ever be a new Windows for this group? Or is Win7 the end?

I don't work in IT, so this is a very unqualified opinion.

I struggled to introduce my father to computers and the Internet (and the 21st century in general) without much success. But soon after trying an iPad he was hooked. If that is indicative, then it is not hard to understand how Apple quickly became the world's richest company or why Microsoft appears to be following their lead -its where the money's at.

But systems for "the digital working class" will always be required, not least to produce all that content that tablet users consume.

Microsoft have never been as innovative as many people suppose (much of their stuff came from buying smaller companies or their code (e.g. MS-DOS came from QDOS and IE came from Spyglass Mosaic). But they have been very good at ensuring that their products are the first that most people encounter.

Go to school and MS have likely donated the software. Buy a PC and Windows is likely already installed. So when you go for a job, Windows is the software you are already familiar with. Employers don't have to teach their new recruits what the start button does.

Metro (or whatever it's called now) may, in part, be a continuation of that strategy.

Is Win7 the end? Not yet. If you type "make windows 7" into a Google search box the first auto suggestion is "make windows 7 look like XP" for "make windows 8" it is "make windows 8 look like windows 7". These "reactionaries" don't know what's good for them. Why don't they just do what the technocracy tells them.

Will there ever be a new Windows for the digital working class? It's anybody's guess. I think MS would be stupid to ignore the rumblings of the masses (but they've done it many times before) or to surrender a substantial market to Linux.

P.S. MC5! You're showing your age.

[admin]

P.S. MC5! You're showing your age.

LOL, I have the record but I wasn't there when they recorded it. Everything from Detroit rocks (apart from the cars).

If the Windows world splits into a tech-tool and a phone app, then the former will probably become much more expensive than it is now. Well, the makers and the users, the two worlds have been apart in the analog world for a long time already. Now digital follows.