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TygrBright

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3. MS could own the desktop market with a good product. Instead...

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2013, 11:06 PM

Oct 2013

...they choose to try and compete on territory already staked out and won by Apple and the pad/mobile device makers.

It's sad, but not surprising.

I'm just hoping that one of these days they'll wake up and get back to business making a workable product to run desktop PCs and full-scale laptops, and meld them effectively with various mobile devices.

patiently,
Bright

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Windows 8.1 won't save Windows 8 [View all] douglas9 Oct 2013 OP

Who cares? I have 4 windows boxes with xp through 8 and... TreasonousBastard Oct 2013 #1

Win8/MetroUI remind me of WinME PrestonLocke Oct 2013 #2

MS could own the desktop market with a good product. Instead... TygrBright Oct 2013 #3

The only thing that will save Windows 8/8.1 will be Windows 9 hobbit709 Oct 2013 #4