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Also agreed, that this mess is not the result of many hard working designers and engineers that worked on the platform of Windows 8.
THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DISASTER THAT IS WINDOWS 8 LIES ON THE SHOULDERS OF STEVE BALLMER, and other top execs who basically decided to STRONG ARM the customer no matter what they wanted.
The bigger question is WHY isn't Ballmer FIRED ALREADY???
This is sharp. Schools are actually falling for it:
Microsoft launches ad-free Bing for Schools, will award free Surface RT tablets in exchange for using its search engine - TechSpot
They aren't exactly giving them away. The sharp bit is, parents will have to use BING to get points so the schools get machines.
That cajoles the parents into using Bing, and pushes the metro madness onto the children.
It's by no means any crazy computer but a stripped down OS made suitable for tablet! When you gut out half of the OS you no longer see half the background services as well. MS geared 8 at tablets for the most part so they would have a Windows version for other then their new Surface Tablet series running RT.
Can't use Media Center on tablet too well if at all and why have codecs when there's no dvd drive on a tablet? Can't play movies or audio cds too well either as far as the physical media is concerned without an addon usb optical. Those were some of the things MS was looking at for the WinTablet 8 that you can install on any brand of tablet over their own Surface with RT.
Again I have to say my own experience with 8 has not been a nightmare that is being touted around - I am not enamoured with the metro style and some of the slight changes are a tad irritating to sort out but in all unless one has tried it with the normal 7 like start up menu then how can anyone pass comment?
I now have my laptop and Sandy Bridge running upgrades and I just cannot see any difference to running 8 than when I ran 7 which I still access via the 8 OS - it is a no brainer to me but perhaps I have none
What I am impressed with is the increase in speed!