NEW YORK — With Thursday’s launch of a dramatically overhauled Windows operating system and a new tablet computer to run it on, Microsoft Corp. made it official: The giant software company, long mocked for boring and predictable products, is setting a radical new course for itself — and perhaps the entire computer industry.
“In building Windows 8, we shunned the incremental,” said Steve Sinofsky, president of the Windows division at Microsoft. “We boldly reimagined Windows.”
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My personal opinion is that Microsoft should have gone for two different products. A cell phone or tablet operating system is not really suited to a much more powerful personal computer with high-end plug-in cards and multiple peripherals. Likewise, an ideal PC operating system would be too complex, too large, and too much of a memory hog for a cell phone.
My personal computer has 2 terabytes of storage, 2 optical drives, high-end sound and video cards, a 22-inch monitor, a scanner and several other peripherals. Windows 7 64-bit is excellent and I can't think of a reason to upgrade to Windows 8.
I also don't think a monitor screen 18 or 20 inches away from me is much of a candidate for touch technology.