More Than 3 Out of 4 Enthusiasts Reject Windows 8

I always think Windows 8.1 (Blue) as more of a service pack update to Windows 8.

Xbox One: The wobbly third leg of Microsoft’s non-desktop trifecta


...From a subjective standpoint, though, each of Microsoft’s new offerings is intrinsically flawed and bogged down by crippling policy decisions no doubt handed down from Microsoft’s besuited higher echelons. Windows 8 and 8.1, despite “responding to customer feedback,” still forces users to use the Metro interface, even when a touchscreen isn’t present. Windows Phone 8 is one of Microsoft’s most polished products, but a smartphone OS is only as strong as its app ecosystem, and due to its minuscule market share WP8 still lacks the ecosystem to pull consumers away from iOS and Android — an unfortunate Catch-22 if I ever saw one. The Xbox One, depending on your point of view, is either an awesome all-in-one living room box that plays games, or an awful DRM-restricted games machine that acts as an HDMI passthrough for your cable box — the very same thing that the tried-and-failed Google TV attempted to do.
How did Microsoft manage to take three exciting, technologically advanced products and turn them into mediocre, humdrum devices that have had all of the fun and adventure sucked out of them?

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Xbox One: The wobbly third leg of Microsoft’s non-desktop trifecta | ExtremeTech

Wenda said:

I ignore the cloud-based aspect of it, but do use some of the 'apps' (God, I hate that word).


Wenda.

Me too! Seems like all I hear and read is app this and app that, app everything! I'm sick of "apps"! LOL

Microsoft is like a politician, " do what I say, don't do what I do".

Juxxize said:

I don't know if this link has been posted on this thread but I find it interesting ( and a little amusing ) that even Microsoft doesn't want to use Windows 8 , at E3 they were using a Windows 7 system to preview the new up-coming xbox one games

Now that's funny! LOL